Kathleen Hwang, MD

Urology
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Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Urology University City
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About me

  • Director, Men's Health Center
  • Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

My education and training

  • Medical School: New York Medical College
  • Residency: University of Virginia Health System
  • Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Hwang is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Cheng LG, Huang SL, and Hwang K Contemporary Insights Into Fertility Preservation in the Prepubertal Male: A Systematic Review , Urology, 213: 2026,24-33


Cheng LG, Wecht A, McNally K, Hwang K Patient-reported understanding of male reproductive healthcare following Dobbs , Journal of Urology, 213(e1285): 2025


Cheng LG, Liu E, Mark E, Hwang K, Chaudhry R Prone to Stones?: Evaluating the association between food insecurity, psychiatric comorbidity, and pediatric stone management , Journal of Pediatric Urology: 2025


Cheng LG, Huang SL, Hwang K Genetic syndromes leading to male infertility: a systematic review , Fertility and Sterility: 2025


Zielen AC, Peters KA, Shetty G, Gross DA, Hanna CB, Dovey SL, Wecht A, Cannon GM, Meistrich ML, Hsieh M, Hwang K, Orwig KE Ultrasound-Guided Rete Testis Approach to Sperm Aspiration and Spermatogonial Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients with Azoospermia , medRxiv [Preprint]: 2025


Evan J Panken, Daniel R Greenberg, Catherine S Nam, Kathleen Hwang, Robert E Brannigan, and Joshua Halpern The use of immotile testicular sperm for in vitro fertilization/ intracytoplasmic sperm injection: what are the outcomes? , F&S Reports: 2025,108-115


Cheng, LG, White K Jarlenski M, Hwang K Patient-Reported Influence of Sociopolitical Issues on Post-Dobbs Vasectomy Decisions , JAMA Network Open: 2025


Cheng LG, Hwang K Reply of the authors:"Isolated teratospermia in fertile men: a call for reassessment" , F&S Reports, 6(1): 2024,96


Cheng L, Madhavaram A, Hwang K Living on a prayer: Comparing resident compensation to living wages Journal of Urology , Journal of Urology, 211(5S): 2024,e298


Cheng L, Miller D, Wecht A, Pelzman D, Hwang K The questionable clinical utility of sperm morphology: Rate of isolated teratospermia in a population of fertile men , Journal of Sexual Medicine, 21(Suppl 2): 2024,ii113