Undergrad: Cumberland University
Nursing School: Tennessee Technological University
Medical School: Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY
Residency: Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA
Medical School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
Residency: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Fellowship: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. Ruchika Talwar is a urologic oncologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Medical Director in the Episodes of Care Office, where she leads and operationalizes VUMC’s specialty value-based care programs, including Medicare models and the innovative MyHealth Bundles program. She is a residency graduate from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, where she was affiliated with the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Wharton School. She completed a Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) fellowship and Masters of Management in Healthcare at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Talwar has served in several national leadership roles within organized medicine, including Chair of the American Urological Association's residents and fellows committee, the Health Policy, Young Urologic Oncologists, and Women in Urologic Oncology Committees of the SUO, and is currently the Fundraising Chair for the AUAPAC. She held the H. Logan Holtgrewe Legislative Fellowship in 2022, when she spent time working on Capitol Hill in the office of Congressman Darren Soto (FL-09). Dr. Talwar’s clinical practice includes both robotic and open approaches to urologic cancer surgery, with a focus on patient-centered care. Her academic work in health policy, value transformation, drug pricing, and costs of care has been published in several JAMA journals and the Journal of Clinical Oncology. She makes several trips a year to Washington, DC, meeting with Congressional representatives as a passionate advocate for improving the quality of care provided to patients in the US.
Medical School: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
Residency: San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Consortium, San Antonio, TX
Hometown: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Undergrad: Duke University
Medical School: Vanderbilt University
Favorite Case in Urology: Orchiectomy
Favorite OR Music: Country plus, funk and any band with a good horns section
Fun Fact: I hit my growth spurt in 5th grade so I absolutely dominated middle school basketball
Hometown: Spokane, WA
Undergrad: University of Washington
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Favorite Case in Urology: Urethroplasty
Favorite OR Music: Probably country, but I like everything!
Fun Fact: I have a pair of socks for almost every holiday
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Undergrad: Haverford College
Medical School: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Favorite Case in Urology: Buried penis repair
Favorite OR Music: Earth, Wind & Fire radio station
Fun Fact: I make a MEAN bacon, egg, and cheese (gouda) breakfast wrap crafted with garlic salt, parsley flakes, and jalapeño everything bagel seasoning inside a pesto and Sriracha mayo-smeared tortilla
Hometown: Cincinnati, OH
Undergrad: Georgetown University
Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
Favorite Case in Urology: IPP Placement
Favorite OR Music: NOW That's What I Call Music! 4
Fun Fact: I once evacuated an airplane using the emergency slide
Undergrad: Cumberland University
Nursing School: Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
Clinical Interests: Female Pelvic Medicine, Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgery, Pelvic Floor Reconstructive Surgery, Urinary Incontinence, Urodynamics
Undergrad: Texas Christian University
NP School: Vanderbilt University
Clinical Interests: BPH, Prostate Cancer, Kidney Cancer, Bladder Cancer, Testis Cancer