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Dr. Prieto is originally from Colombia, South America. After graduating first in his medical school class, he completed his Urology Residency at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota. Then, he completed two Pediatric Urology Fellowship programs at Miami Children’s Hospital (University of Miami) and Children’s Medical Center of Dallas (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center).
 
Dr. Prieto served from 2014 to 2020 as the Section Chief of Pediatric Urology at Children’s Hospital of San Antonio and currently holds the position of Clinical Adjunct Professor for the Urology Departments at San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium Program (SAUSHEC) and at the University of Texas RGV, in San Antonio and Edinburg TX, respectively. He works primarily at Christus Children’s Hospital and Methodist Children’s Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, and at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande Valley (RGV), Texas.
 
Dr. Prieto served as the President of the Iberoamerican Society for Pediatric Urology (https://siupurologia.com/presidentes/) from 2018 to 2020. Also, he was a Board member of this organization from 2012 to 2017. This academic society includes pediatric urologists from twenty-four Ibero American (Latin America, Spain and Portugal) countries. In addition, he travels periodically to other countries as a lecturer and to perform charitable urological surgery in children from underserved areas. He can communicate with his patients in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
 
Outside of medicine, his interests include spending time with his family and friends, outdoor activities, hiking, running, working out, country lifestyle, horseback riding, traveling, reading and watching international soccer.
  • Male genital conditions: phimosis, buried penis, micropenis, hypospadias, penile torsion or curvature, disorders of sexual differentiation (DSD), undescended testicles, hydrocele, varicocele, testicular cysts/ tumors, etc.

  • Female genital conditions: labial fusion, labial or clitoral hyperthrophy, urogenital sinus/ cloaca, vaginal agenesis, DSD, etc.

  • Urinary tract conditions in males and females: hydronephrosis, vesicoureteral reflux, ureteral anomalies (duplicated collecting systems, ectopic ureters, ureteroceles), posterior urethral valves, urinary tract infections, urinary incontinence, enuresis, bladder and bowel dysfunction, hematuria, kidney and urinary stones, fetal urological
    conditions, etc.

  • Neurogenic bladder: spina bifida-myelomeningocele,
    tethered cord, sacral agenesis, etc.

  • Office procedures: newborn circumcision, excision of penile skin bridges/ adhesions, meatotomy, lysis of labial fusion, ultrasound and urodynamic studies, etc.

  • Surgeries: minimally invasive procedures (endoscopic, laser, laparoscopic and robotic) and open surgeries.

• Medical School: Universidad de Caldas. Manizales, Colombia, 1989-1995.
• Internship: Hospital Militar Central. Bogota, Colombia, 1996.
• Urology Residency: Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogota, Colombia, 1997-2001.
• Pediatric Urology Fellowship: University of Miami/ Miami Children’s Hospital. Miami, Florida, 2004-2006.
• Pediatric Urology Fellowship: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center/ Children’s Medical Center Dallas. Dallas, Texas, 2006-2008.

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