Dr Khurshid Ghani is a Professor of Urology, and Co-Director of the Endourology Fellowship, at the
University of Michigan. Dr. Ghani graduated from the University of Leeds and completed urology
training in Edinburgh and London, and received a Master of Surgery from the University of London for
research on percutaneous renal stone surgery. In 2011, he was awarded an Urology Foundation
scholarship to learn robotic surgery at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, following which he joined the
University of Michigan in 2013. Dr Ghani has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles, and his research
focuses on endoscopic stone surgery and health services research. He is an authority on laser
lithotripsy, and has extramural funding to study laser fragmentation in the laboratory. He is the Course
Director of an international symposium - Developments in Ureteroscopic Stone Treatment (D.U.S.T.) -
which has exposed hundreds of urologists to advanced techniques in ureteroscopy. In addition, Dr
Ghani serves as the Director of the Michigan Urological Surgery Collaborative (MUSIC), a physician-led
quality improvement group comprising over 260 urologists and 46 urology practices in Michigan, and
four centers outside Michigan, with the goal to improve the quality of care for patients with prostate
cancer, kidney stones and kidney cancer. Within MUSIC, he is the principal investigator of a multi-center
randomized clinical trial assessing patient health-related quality of life and healthcare utilization after
ureteroscopy, awarded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Institute. He is an Assistant Editor for the
Journal of Urology, and serves on the editorial board of Nature Reviews Urology.