Chris M. Gonzalez, MD, MBA, FACS, is chairperson of urology at Loyola Medicine and the Albert J. Jr. and Claire Speh Professor and chair of urology for the Loyola University Medical Center and Stritch School of Medicine. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa City and completed his general surgical and urologic residency training at the McGaw Medical Center, Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. He earned a master’s in business administration from the Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Dr. Gonzalez has published over 150 peer reveiwed manuscripts, review articles, invited editorials and book chapters. He has had funded research with an NIH pilot project in the area of prostate cancer screening in underserved populations, and received an ambulatory care process improvement award from the Grant Healthcare Foundation. 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.