Chris M. Gonzalez, MD, MBA, FACS is a native of Toledo, Ohio. He graduated from Denison University in Granville, Ohio with a BS degree in 1989. Afterwards he obtained his MD degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa City, Iowa. Dr. Gonzalez then completed both his general surgical and urologic residency training at the McGaw Medical Center, Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Gonzalez served in the US Army National Guard from January 1991 – January 2001. He joined the Northwestern University Department of Urology in 2000 following residency, and was appointed Professor of Urology in 2011. He served as Chief of Urology for the VA Lakeside from 2003 – 2006 and completed his MBA degree from the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management in 2006. He was the Director of Surgery for the Northwestern Medicine Surgical Services Department from 2014 – 2015. Dr. Gonzalez was the Lester Persky Professor and Chair of the Urology Institute at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio from 2015 to 2018. He is currently the Albert J. Jr. and Claire Speh Professor and Chair of Urology for the Loyola University Medical Center and Stritch School of Medicine in August 2018. Dr. Gonzalez was named the Chief of Surgery for the Loyola University Medical Center in September 2021.
He is the Associate Editor for the Genitourinary Reconstruction Section of Urology, section editor for the “Hands On” section of Urology Times, and Section Editor for the Urology Practice journal. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgery Society, and he was a member of the first International Consultation on Urologic Stricture Disease, and the first Urethral Stricture guidelines panel for the American Urological Association (AUA).
Dr Gonzalez served as the Chair for the AUA Public Policy and Practice Management from 2016-2020. Previous to this position he served as Vice Chairman of the AUA Quality Improvement and patient Safety Committee and Public Policy and Practice Management. He is a former AUA Gallagher Health Care Policy Scholar and was a member of the second AUA Leadership program class. Dr. Gonzalez has served on the AUA BPH Guidelines Committee, AUA expert panel to the AMA RUC, and he is now a senior editor on the ABU Examination Committee. He was the President of the Chicago Urological Society in 2014. Dr. Gonzalez is a member of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons.
Dr. Gonzalez has published over 150 peer reveiwed manuscripts, review articles, invited editorials, and book chapters. He has had funded research in the past with a NIH pilot project in the area of prostate cancer screening in underserved populations, and an ambulatory care process improvement award from the Grant Healthcare Foundation. His recent focus has been on patient reported outcome measures in the area of genitourinary reconstruction, practice patterns in reconstructive urologic surgery, practice integration of advanced practice providers, and the urology workforce shortage in the United States. His areas of clinical specialty include urethral stricture disease, salvage of failed hypospadias surgery, genitourinary fistula disease, erectile dysfunction, penile prosthetic placement, Peyronie’s disease, and penile curvature correction.
