Dr. Veronica Rupert will also be the first urologist to provide services at St. Luke’s New Jersey campuses.

“I am honored to be the first female urologist employed at St. Luke’s,” Dr. Rupert says. “The conditions that I treat are largely the same as my partners, but there are some patients who feel more comfortable with a female provider. That option is now on the table. We all provide quality urologic care but having a female urologist in our practice is a strength.”

Rupert will practice at the New Jersey office, 755 Memorial Parkway, Suite 302, Phillipsburg, on Mondays starting in June. She will also practice at St. Luke’s Center for Urology at 5018 Medical Center Circle, Suite 101B in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Frank J. Tamarkin, MD, St. Luke’s Section Chief of Urology said, “First and foremost are Dr. Rupert’s outstanding qualifications and skill set. She is coming from the Geisinger program, which is a world-class training program. Dr. Rupert will have an interest in general urology, prosthetics and robotics. Her training, skills and interests align very nicely with the needs and goals of our practice.”

Dr. Tamarkin says that St. Luke’s strives to give patients as many options as possible “We do have many patients who would prefer to be seen by a female provider.”

St. Luke’s Center for Urology is a comprehensive urology group treating a full array of adult urologic conditions using the most effective advancements, including cutting-edge, minimally invasive, robotic procedures, such as those performed using the da Vinci® Surgical Robot System.

St. Luke’s Center for Urology has 10 offices throughout the network and includes 11 physicians and 14 advanced practitioners.

“I prefer to start with the most effective and least invasive therapy first and escalate care as needed,” Rupert explained. “The patient and I are a team in helping them achieve their goal. I take into consideration the patient’s medical history as well as social, economic, cultural or even religious factors that may affect their care. Medicine is an art and one size often doesn’t fit all.”

She graduated from Meharry Medical University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN, and completed general surgery residencies at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, and the urologic surgery residency at Geisinger Medical Center.in Scranton.

For more information about the St. Luke’s Urology Center, call 484-526-2598 or visit www.slhn.org/urology.