Fleck Named First Woman President Of American Urological Association Section

Dr. Lorie Fleck, a board-certified urologist at USA Health University Urology, recently was inaugurated as the first woman president of the Southeastern Section of the American Urological Association. As president, she will attend state urology meetings throughout the section and update members on the section’s efforts to improve patient care and physician outreach. In addition, she is responsible for organizing the section’s next annual meeting. Fleck is an associate professor of urology and an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine and director of the urology residency program at USA Health. The Southeastern Section is the largest of the association’s eight geographic regions, composed of almost 2,100 urologists in nine Southeastern states, Panama, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In 1992, Fleck became the first woman urology resident at the Medical College of Georgia, where she also earned her medical degree. In 2014, she became one of the first two urologists in the Mobile area to earn subspecialty board certification in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery.