Dr. Gaurav Pahouja

Education and Residency:

Undergraduate Education: Kent State University, Kent, OH

Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH

Residency: Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL

Bio:

Dr. Pahouja completed his undergraduate education at Kent State University and graduated Summa Cum Laude. He then attended Medical School at Northeast Ohio Medical University where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. He completed his residency and chief year in Urology at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. Dr. Pahouja is a Board Certified Urologist. During his career, he has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and presented his work throughout the country at local, regional, and national conferences. He has expertise and a special interest in kidney stones, BPH, oncology, and endourology. He had been appointed as faculty with the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine In 2023, he became the first Urologist in the Dayton and Springfield region to offer mini tubeless percutaneous nephrolithotomy (mini stone surgery) as an innovative, minimally invasive procedure for kidney stones. In 2024, he was featured in the Dayton Daily News for his expertise in kidney stone disease. He was nominated to the Dayton Forty Under 40 Class of 2025 by the Dayton Business Journal. Dr. Pahouja has been recognized as a Top Doctor in the region, and was selected as one of Dayton's Best Doctors of 2025 by Dayton Magazine. In his free time he enjoys golfing, traveling, and running.

Awards/Honors:

• Dayton's Best Doctors of 2025
• Dayton Forty Under 40, Class of 2025
• Recipient of the Kudos Award
• 3rd Prize in Simulation Skills Challenge at 2023 Chicago Urologic Society Meeting
• Loyola Urology Academic Achievement Award
• 3rd Prize for Clinical Research at 2022 Charles B. Huggins Essay Contest
• Magis Star Award for Outstanding Patient Care
• Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
• Summa Cum Laude

Associations:

American Urological Association

Society of Benign Prostatic Disease

Sexual Medicine Society of North America

Large Urology Group Practice Association (LUGPA)

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Lewer, O., Felice, M.D., Copelan, O., Janakiraman, S., Pahouja, G., Wozniak, A., McVary, K.T. Prostate size and its effect on lower urinary tract symptoms/benign prostatic hyperplasia improvement after convective water vapor thermal therapy. Journal of Urology. 2025, online ahead of print.
2. Buchinsky, D., Pahouja, G. Scrotal cellular angiofibroma: a case report and review of the literature. Urology Case Reports. 2024, 57: 102850.
3. Yang, R., Rac, G., Felice, M.D., Pahouja, G., Ko, C., Okabe, Y., Naha, U., Chen, V.S., Druck, A., Gupta, G.N., Woods, M.E., Gorbonos, A., Quek, M.L., Patel, H.D. Robotic versus open radical cystectomy for bladder cancer: evaluation of complications, survival, and opioid prescribing patterns. Journal of Robotic Surgery. 2024, 18(1): 10.
4. Felice, M., Kim, K., Janakiraman, S., Pahouja, G., Adams, W., Fruth, E., Farooq, A., McVary, K.T. Risk factors for a failed trial without catheter following convective water vapor thermal therapy (CWVTT-Rezum). Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms. 2023, 15(5): 158-164.
5. Elliott, N., Pahouja, G., Felice, M., Capoccia, E., Patel, P.M., Blanco Martinez, E., Aiwerioghene, E., Gorbonos, A. Transition from standard robotic prostatectomy to retzius-sparing prostatectomy: feasibility and early outcomes. Journal of Robotic Surgery. 2023, 17(5): 2035-2040.
6. Pahouja, G., Patel, H.D., Desai, S., Rac, G., Cheng, T., Okabe, Y., Gorbonos, A., Quek, M.Q., Flanigan, R.C., Picken, M.M., Gupta, G.N. The rising incidence of ductal adenocarcinoma and intraductal carcinoma of the prostate: diagnostic accuracy of biopsy, MRI-visibility, and outcomes. Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations. 2023, 41(1): 48.e11-48.e18.
7. Janakiraman, S., Felice, M., Pahouja, G., Adams, W., Bsatee, A., Farooq, A., McVary, K.T. Urology. 2023, 179: 112-117.
8. Patel, H.D., Okabe, Y., Rac, G., Pahouja, G., Desai, S., Shea, S.M., Gorbonos, A., Quek, M.Q., Flanigan, R.C., Goldberg, A., Gupta, G.N. MRI versus non-MRI diagnostic pathways before radical prostatectomy: impact of nerve-sparing, positive surgical margins, and biochemical recurrence. Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations. 2023, 41(2): 104.e19-104.e27.
9. Pahouja, G., Patel, P., Blanco Martinez, E., Mueller, E., McVary, K. Voiding time for the evaluation of lower urinary tract symptoms in men – a potential option for addressing disparity related access to urodynamic testing. Urology. 2022, 169: 162-166.
10. Pahouja, G., Sweigert S.E., Sweigert, P.J., Gorbonos, A., Patel, H.D., Gupta, G.N. Does size matter? Comparing robotic versus open radical nephrectomy for very large renal masses. Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations. 2022, 40(10): 456.e1-456.e7.
11. Patel, H.D., Koehne, E.L., Gali, K., Lanzotti, N.J., Rac, G., Desai, S., Pahouja, G., Quek, M.Q., Gupta, G.N. Robotic-assisted tumor enucleation versus standard margin partial nephrectomy: perioperative, renal functional, and oncologic outcomes for low and intermediate complexity renal masses. Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations. 2022, 40(7): 347.e9-347.e16.
12. Pahouja, G., Roehrborn, C., McVary, K.T. 5-alpha reductase inhibitor therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia. AUA Update Series 2022. Volume 41, Lesson 12.
13. Patel, P.M., Slovacek H., Pahouja, G., Patel H.D., Cao D., Emerson, J., Kansal, J., Prebay, Z., Medairos, R., Doolittle, J., Bresler, L., Levine, L.A., Guise, A., Bajic, P. Socioeconomic disparities and risk factors in patients presenting with ischemic priapism: a multi-institutional study. Urology. 2022, 163: 50-55.
14. Dornbier, R., Pahouja, G., Branch, J., & McVary, K.T. The new American urological association benign prostatic hyperplasia clinical guidelines: 2019 update. Current Urology Reports. 2020, 21(9): 32.
15. Pahouja, G., Patel, K., & Ricchiuti, D.J. Chylous ascites as a complication of left sided robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy. Archives of Italian Urology and Andrology. 2016, 88(3): 217-222.
16. Lester, J., Pahouja, G., Andersen, B., & Lustberg, M. Atrophic vaginitis in breast cancer survivors: a difficult survivorship issue. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 2015, 5(2): 50-66.
17. Pahouja, G., Weslowski, R., Reinbolt, T., Tozbikian, G., Berger, M., Mangini, N., & Lustberg, M.B. Stabilization of bone marrow infiltration by metastatic breast cancer with continuous doxorubicin. Cancer Treatment Communications. 2015, 3: 28-32.