Meet Giulia

Giulia Ippolito Lane, MD, MS

Giulia Ippolito, MD, MS, is a Urologist with fellowship training in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery (FPMRS) and a Health Services Researcher at the University of Michigan. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Dallas (B.S, 2009) and Medical School at Texas A&M University (M.D., 2013). She completed a General Surgery internship (2014), Urology residency training at the University of Minnesota (2018), and a subsequent fellowship in Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery (URPS, formerly Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery) at the University of Michigan (2021). She also completed a master’s degree in Health and Healthcare Research at the University of Michigan in 2020

Dr. Ippolito joined the University of Michigan, Department of Urology, Division of Neurourology and Pelvic Reconstruction in July 2021. Her clinical practice is at the University Hospital, West Ann Arbor Clinic, St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital, and the Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Kettles VA Medical Center in Ann Arbor. Dr. Ippolito’s clinical focus and practice include evaluating and treating urinary incontinence, neurogenic bladder, female pelvic floor dysfunction (pelvic organ prolapse, urethral diverticuli, fistula), and reconstruction of the lower urinary tract, including ureteral obstruction. She performs transvaginal and transabdominal repair of pelvic organ prolapse, female incontinence surgery, such as urethral bulking, synthetic and autologous urethral slings, complex reconstruction, including urinary diversions, augmentation, and ureteral reconstruction using open and robotic approaches

Dr. Ippolito is a NIDDK-funded K-12 Scholar under the University of Michigan UroEPI Career Development Program, and her research is focused on understanding and improving decision-making between patients and clinicians, especially in the care of overactive bladder. She is a member of several research collaboratives with the University of Michigan and across the nation (Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine & Urogenital Reconstruction Research Network; Symptoms of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction Research Network)

Clinical Interests: Fellowship Trained in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery Neurourology and Abdominal Reconstruction

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