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After receiving her degree from Midwestern University in Downers Grove, IL, Brooke Zilinskas worked for several years in general and vascular surgery before moving to the field of Urology. She has worked for UT Southwestern Medical Center’s department of urology for the past 10 years where she evaluates and treats patients with recurrent UTIs, incontinence, voiding dysfunction, hematuria, kidney stones, and other urologic complaints. She spends her time in the clinic seeing patients, performing procedures such as prostate biopsy, cystoscopy, and PTNS. She also sees inpatient urologic consults and first assists on robotic surgeries. She is a frequent speaker at the UT Southwestern PA school, local, state, and national conferences. She has published articles related to voiding problems in JAAPA, sits on the AUA APP Education Committee, and chairs an APP mentorship program at UT Southwestern.

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Megan Bollner, PA-C, has been working in urology since 2017. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in French from Brigham Young University and a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies from UT Southwestern. She completed a one-year fellowship in urology at UTSW, after which she joined the staff of the Urology Department there. She divides her clinical time between the operating room, where she first-assists on robotic surgeries, and the outpatient clinic, where she sees general urology patients. She has a particular clinical interest in the medical management of nephrolithiasis.

She is a member of several professional organizations, including the Urological Association of Physician Assistants, American Academy of Physician Assistants, the Texas Association of Physician Assistants, and the Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine, and Urogenital Reconstruction.

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Patrick Dougherty, MPAS, PA-C is a Physician Assistant in the Department of Urology at UT Southwestern Medical Center splitting time between the operating room and a robust clinical practice focusing primarily on men’s health issues including: benign and malignant prostate disease, erectile dysfunction, Peyronie’s disease, hypogonadism, hematuria, urinary tract infections.

Patrick received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Exercise Physiology from Texas A&M University in 2005 and worked in the field of nuclear medicine cardiac stress testing for 2 years. He then went on to pursue his Master of Physician Assistant Studies from UT Southwestern which he completed in 2009. He initially joined the Department of Urology at Yale New Haven Hospital where he worked primarily on the inpatient service and as a robotic surgical first-assist, until moving back to Texas in late 2012. He has maintained certification with the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants since 2009.

He is a member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, the Texas Academy of Physician Assistants, the American Urological Association, and the Urological Association of Physician Assistants. He currently serves on both the CME/Education committee and the Social Media committee for the UAPA.

He is involved in several ongoing research studies involving treatments for benign prostate enlargement, adjuvant treatments for prostate cancer, biochemical markers for prostate cancer and evaluation of postoperative stress urinary incontinence after prostatectomy. He was inducted into Pi Alpha, the National Honor Society for Physician Assistants, in 2009.