The American Association of Clinical Urologists (AACU) is pleased to announce the installation of new board officers for 2022-23: William C. Reha, MD, MBA, Harbhajan Singh Ajrawat, MD, FACS, FICS, and Lorie Fleck, MD. New officers were installed during the membership meeting at the 2022 AACU Leadership Summit and celebrated at an evening reception.
“Our Board of Directors is a team of dedicated leaders focused on furthering AACU’s mission of advancing health policy education as it affects the practice of urology,” said Damara Kaplan, MD, PhD, AACU Immediate Past President. “We are excited to channel our new board members’ enthusiasm and expertise as we move AACU forward.”
William C. Reha, MD, MBA, will serve as AACU President. Dr. Reha is a board-certified urologic surgeon in Woodbridge, VA, who has served as speaker and president of the Medical Society of Virginia (MSV). Additionally, he was president of the Potomac Hospital Medical Staff, Prince William County Medical Society, and the Virginia Urological Society, and has served as Chair of the Virginia Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA). Dr. Reha currently serves as a member of the American Urological Association (AUA) Public Policy Council and is a past recipient of the AUA the Ambrose-Reed Socioeconomics award. He is a Medical Society of Virginia Foundation (MSVF) Claude Moore Physician Leadership Institute fellow, the recipient of the MSV Clarence A. Holland Award and the 2020 MSVF Salute to Service Award. In 2021, he received the Herb Sohn award from the AACU for demonstrated vision and leadership for federal and state advocacy.
Harbhajan (Harry) Ajrawat, MD, FACS, FICS, will serve as AACU President-Elect and continue in his role as chair of the AACU’s State Advocacy Network Committee. Dr. Ajrawat is a board-certified urologist who practices in Greenbelt, Maryland and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the International College of Surgeons. He previously served as president of: the Maryland State Medical Society (MEDCHI), the Prince Georges County Medical Society, the Indian American Medical Society of Greater Washington (IAMA), and the Indian American Urological Association of North America (IAUA). Dr. Ajrawat was honored by the Maryland State Medical Society with the H. Paige Laughlin Award for dedicated and outstanding service as treasurer and chair of the Finance Committee. Additionally, he is the recipient of. received the IAUA Sushruta Award for outstanding contribution and achievement in the field of Urology, and the IAMA Distinguished Physician & Community Service Award.
Lorie Fleck, MD will serve as AACU Secretary/Treasurer. Dr. Fleck is an associate professor in the Department of Urology at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama, and was the first woman to complete a urology residency at the Medical College of Georgia. She was certified by the American Board of Urology in 1997 and 2006 and achieved subspecialty certification in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery in 2017. Her practice focus is on female and male voiding dysfunction and incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse and reconstructive surgery for fistulas and trauma. She has been involved with the Southeastern Section of the AUA in health policy as the chairman of the health policy committee and currently serves as Treasurer on the Executive Committee. She is the health policy liaison for the Alabama Urology Network and is involved with the AUA in both the health policy committee and state advocacy committee. Dr. Fleck was selected as the 2020 local best urologist by Lagniappe Magazine.
In addition to these newly installed board members, Damara Kaplan, MD, PhD, who served as president from 2021-2022, will remain on the board as immediate past president, and Dr. Terrence Regan will continue in his role as Health Policy Committee chair.
Damara Kaplan, MD, PhD (left) congratulates newly installed AACU leaders, President William Reha, MD, MBA (center) and President-Elect Harbhajan (Harry) Ajrawat, MD, FACS, FICS (right). Not pictured is Secretary/Treasurer Lorie Fleck, MD.
William Reha, MD, MBA, AACU president, enthusiastically provides his thoughts on the exciting year ahead for AACU.
Damara Kaplan, MD, PhD, AACU immediate past president (far right), is welcomed by her fellow AACU past presidents (l-r) Martin Dineen, MD; Elliott Lieberman, MD; and Charles (Chip) McWilliams, MD.