Nicolas M Ortiz, MD
Urology
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Bio & Overview
Nicolas M. Ortiz, MD, is a board-certified urologist with expertise in reconstruction and restoration of function in patients who experience problems such as erectile dysfunction, incontinence and scarring of the genitourinary tract. His practice is focused on male patients but he also takes care of patients of any gender that may need bladder or ureteral reconstruction. Dr. Ortiz has been designated as a Center of Excellence (COE) for the Boston Scientific AMS 700 Penile Prosthesis. He is one of only two COEs for this device in the state of Virginia.
He specializes in the following conditions and procedures:
- Male urethral stricture
- Erectile dysfunction
- Male urinary incontinence
- Peyronie’s disease
- Penile prosthesis
- Male sling
- Artificial urinary sphincter
- Buried penis
- Ureteral stricture
- Urologic reconstruction
Dr. Ortiz was born and raised in Colombia, South America. He moved to the United States to pursue his medical education. After completing his urological training, he served in the United States Army for four years. He then pursued additional fellowship training in genitourinary reconstruction before joining the UVA Department of Urology in 2020. He cares for patients in the inpatient and outpatient setting and supervises and teaches residents who are learning to become urologists.
His research interests include optimizing surgical outcomes for prosthetic and reconstructive surgery and the use of minimally invasive techniques, such as robotic-assisted surgery, in urologic reconstruction.
He is a member of the following organizations:
- Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons
- American Urological Association
- Sexual Medicine Society of North America
- Society of Urologic Prosthetic Surgeons
- Société Internationale d’Urologie
- International Society for Sexual Medicine
- Society of Government Service Urologists
Outside of work, he enjoys hiking, skiing and traveling with his wife. He volunteers for the Urology Care Foundation creating and translating patient information documents in Spanish.
Academic Information
Conditions & Treatments
- Artificial urinary sphincter
- Bladder mesh surgery
- Lichen sclerosus of the penis
- Male genital organ stricture
- Male sexual dysfunction
- Male sling
- Male sterilization
- Male stress incontinence
- Male urinary incontinence
- Male urinary problems
- Meatal stenosis
- Penile plication
- Penile prosthesis
- Peyronie's disease (pd)
- Plastic urethral sphincter
- Post prostatectomy bladder neck contracture
- Post prostatectomy erectile impairment
- Post prostatectomy incontinence
- Prosthetic urology
- Reconstruction of urethra
- Reconstructive urologic surgery
- Repair of rectourethral fistula
- Repair of urinary stress incontinence
- Urethral stricture
- Urethral trauma
- Urethromeatoplasty
- Urinary incontinence
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- Spanish, English
- Age Groups Seen
- Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Southwestern Medical School
- Residency
- University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital
- Fellowships
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Certification
- American Board of Urology (Urology)
Highlights
Meet Urologist Nicolas Ortiz, MD
Nicolas Ortiz: My name is Nicolas Ortiz and I'm a Reconstructive Urologist. I treat patients who have sustained loss of urinary function, usually secondary to injury or inflammation, or sometimes after other procedures, usually for removal or treatment of cancer. Some of the more common procedures that I perform is urethral reconstruction, as well as penile prosthesis for erectile dysfunction, and implantation of an artificial urinary sphincter. It's very important for me to know exactly what the patient is expecting, what they want to accomplish from our visit and our treatment. And once we have all the information, we can generate a plan that is customized to the patient. I am passionate about improving patient outcomes, making surgery recovery faster, less painful. The greatest thing is seeing patients who come back and tell me that the procedure we've done have significantly improved their life. And they are usually very happy, which is extremely, extremely rewarding.
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