HoLEP Teaching & Fellowship

This page is for urology colleagues who want to train with Dr. Quarrier — residents weighing fellowship choices, and practicing urologists who want to learn or sharpen their HoLEP technique. (Looking to send a patient instead? See Refer a patient.)

UR Medicine Endourology Fellowship

Dr. Quarrier is Co-Director of the Endourology Fellowship Program at the University of Rochester, a position he has held since 2023.

The fellowship is an Endourological Society–accredited program combining high-volume HoLEP training, complex stone disease (PCNL, ureteroscopy, modern laser systems, advanced ureteral access), surgical simulation, and clinical research across the department’s active programs.

What makes the program distinctive:

• Device-agnostic HoLEP training. Fellows train across the major HoLEP device platforms rather than a single manufacturer’s equipment, and leave able to operate on whatever system their future practice uses — uncommon in the US fellowship landscape.
• High-volume HoLEP across the size spectrum. Cases routinely span small glands to very large ones, including referrals from across the region, so fellows accumulate substantial experience in large-gland management.
• A validated HoLEP simulation model co-developed at the University of Rochester, used in fellow training and at national HoLEP courses.
• Strong research support in the program’s focus areas — patient-reported outcomes, equity in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) care, the HoLEP learning curve, and patient-experience improvements such as same-day discharge. Fellows are expected to publish, with first- and senior-authorship pathways well supported.

Format: one to two years; one BPH/stone fellow per year. Application is through the Endourological Society fellowship match. Program details: UR Medicine Endourology Fellowship.

For practicing urologists learning HoLEP

HoLEP has a real learning curve, and Dr. Quarrier’s academic focus includes teaching the procedure to urologists already in practice. Two pathways:

• Observational visits — a day or two observing HoLEP cases, with case-selection discussion and direct technique observation. Useful early in the learning curve, to build a clear mental model of the operation before independent cases.
• Hands-on courses — Dr. Quarrier serves as faculty and course director for HoLEP and laser-enucleation courses at national meetings, several of which include simulation and cadaveric or model-based practice.

Many of these training opportunities are organized in partnership with medical device companies and national societies; the technique taught is platform-independent.

Contact

Fellowship applicants apply through the Endourological Society fellowship match; see the UR Medicine Endourology Fellowship page for program specifics.

Practicing urologists interested in an observational visit or HoLEP training, and course organizers seeking faculty, can reach Dr. Quarrier’s office through UR Medicine Urology:

• Phone: (585) 275-2838
• Department: UR Medicine Urology
• Profile: Dr. Scott Quarrier