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Greg Bales

🇺🇸 United States

Training and career​

  • Current position Listed as clinical associate in surgery-urology, University of Chicago12
  • Medical school Tufts University School of Medicine2
  • Residency University of Chicago Medicine2
  • Fellowship University Hospital of Wales2

Known for​

  • Preoperative pelvic floor biofeedback trial (2000). Led a randomized trial finding no continence benefit from adding preoperative biofeedback to pelvic floor exercise instruction before prostatectomy.3
  • Single-versus-double artificial sphincter cuff follow-up (2008). Senior-authored long-term follow-up finding no significant continence advantage for double-cuff artificial urinary sphincters and more additional surgeries.4 Cited on WARWIKI: Artificial Urinary Sphincter (Procedure).

Contributions​

Bales's cited work covers genitourinary reconstruction and continence surgery, including scrotal tissue expansion, intestinal urethral substitution, artificial urinary sphincter cuff comparison, and transobturator mesh excision.5678

Cited on WARWIKI

6 publications with Greg Bales as a listed author are cited on WARWIKI, ordered by the number of pages that cite them. Papers whose author list is shortened to "et al." before this name are not included.

  1. Rapp DE, Cohn AB, Gottlieb LJ, Lyon MB, Bales GT. "Use of tissue expansion for scrotal sac reconstruction after scrotal skin loss." Urology. 2005;65(6):1216–1218. doi
    Cited on: Primary Closure of the Scrotum · Masculinizing Scrotoplasty · Reduction Scrotoplasty (Scrotal Lift / Tuck)
  2. Pariser JJ, Saltzman GB, Bales GT, Steinberg GD, Smith ND. "Outcomes of the Endoscopic Treatment of Bladder Neck Contractures in the Orthotopic Neobladder." Urology. 2015;86(3):613-617. doi
    Cited on: Bladder Neck Contracture (BNC)
  3. Cohn JA, Large MC, Richards KA, Steinberg GD, Bales GT. "Cystectomy and Urinary Diversion as Management of Treatment-Refractory Benign Disease: The Impact of Preoperative Urological Conditions on Perioperative Outcomes." International Journal of Urology. 2014;21(4):382-6. doi
    Cited on: Simple Cystectomy for Benign Disease
  4. Reynolds WS, Kit LC, Kaufman MR, Karram M, Bales GT, Dmochowski RR. Obturator foramen dissection for excision of symptomatic transobturator mesh. J Urol. 2012;187(5):1680–1684. doi
    Cited on: Mesh Complications & Removal — POP and SUI Mesh
  5. O'Connor RC, Lyon MB, Guralnick ML, Bales GT. Long-term follow-up of single versus double cuff artificial urinary sphincter insertion for the treatment of severe postprostatectomy stress urinary incontinence. Urology. 2008;71(1):90–3. doi
    Cited on: Artificial Urinary Sphincter (Procedure)
  6. Bales GT, Kuznetsov DD, Kim HL, Gottlieb LJ. Urethral substitution using an intestinal free flap: a novel approach. J Urol. 2002;168(1):182-4.
    Cited on: Enterourethroplasty

Footnotes​

  1. 78 UChicago Medicine physicians named “Top Doctors”. UChicago Medicine. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  2. Gregory Bales. Profiles RNS. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. Bales GT, Gerber GS, Minor TX, et al. "Effect of preoperative biofeedback/pelvic floor training on continence in men undergoing radical prostatectomy." Urology. 2000;56(4):627–630. doi:10.1016/s0090-4295(00)00687-7 ↩

  4. O’Connor RC, Lyon MB, Guralnick ML, et al. "Long-term Follow-up of Single Versus Double Cuff Artificial Urinary Sphincter Insertion for the Treatment of Severe Postprostatectomy Stress Urinary Incontinence." Urology. 2008;71(1):90–93. doi:10.1016/j.urology.2007.08.017 ↩

  5. Rapp DE, Cohn AB, Gottlieb LJ, Lyon MB, Bales GT. "Use of tissue expansion for scrotal sac reconstruction after scrotal skin loss." Urology. 2005;65(6):1216–1218. doi:10.1016/j.urology.2005.02.006 ↩

  6. Bales GT, Kuznetsov DD, Kim HL, Gottlieb LJ. Urethral substitution using an intestinal free flap: a novel approach. J Urol. 2002;168(1):182-4. ↩

  7. O'Connor RC, Lyon MB, Guralnick ML, Bales GT. Long-term follow-up of single versus double cuff artificial urinary sphincter insertion for the treatment of severe postprostatectomy stress urinary incontinence. Urology. 2008;71(1):90–3. doi:10.1016/j.urology.2007.08.017 ↩

  8. Reynolds WS, Kit LC, Kaufman MR, Karram M, Bales GT, Dmochowski RR. Obturator foramen dissection for excision of symptomatic transobturator mesh. J Urol. 2012;187(5):1680–1684. doi:10.1016/j.juro.2011.12.065 ↩