Richard Santucci
Richard Anthony Santucci MD, FACS is an American reconstructive urologist who currently lives and works in Austin, Texas.
Santucci is a graduate of the American Urological Association Leadership Program Class of 2009, was a member of the AUA Urotrauma Guidelines panel, the AUA Urotrauma Legislation Task force, the World Health OrganizationInternational Consultation on Urologic Diseases, and was an advisor to the US Marines Dismounted Blast Injuries Task Force. He recently served as the co-Chairman of the AUA Urethroplasty Guidelines panel, and. spent 18 years as a reconstructive urologist. He is the former Director of the Center for Urologic Reconstruction and Specialist-in-Chief for Urology at the Detroit Medical Center, focusing on urologic reconstruction and trauma including urethral stricture disease, ureteral injury, buried penis, and a variety of complex genital reconstruction surgeries.
Santucci is the co-editor of the texts Emergencies in Urology, Atlas of Urethroplasty, and Penile Reconstructive Surgery. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the online open-access Urology journal Advances in Urology, and co-creator of the high definition surgical video website, iclinics.org. His most highly cited article, Santucci RA, Joyce GF, Wise M. Male urethral stricture disease. The Journal of Urology. 2007 May;177:1667-74 has been cited 397 times according to Google Scholar
He is now a Senior Surgeon at Crane Surgical Services in Austin, Texas.