Dr. Melissa Kaufman is Associate Professor of Urologic Surgery at Vanderbilt Medical Center. She received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and Ph.D. in Microbial Genetics at University of Tennessee. Following postdoctoral research at Stanford and completion of medical school in her home state of Arkansas, Dr. Kaufman commenced her Urology residency at Vanderbilt in 2002. She completed fellowship training in both Male Reconstruction and Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery in 2009 at Vanderbilt.
Dr. Kaufman’s practice focuses on female and male voiding dysfunction and incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, neurourology, urologic prosthetics, as well as reconstructive surgery for fistula and trauma. Additionally, she is a past-president of the Society of Women in Urology.