

Dr. Susan MacDonald
Urologist
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Dr. Susan MacDonald is a urologist and Associate Professor at Penn State in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Episode # 291 • 24 Feb 2026
Pelvic Pain Syndromes: Clinical Assessment & Strategies
What do the 2025 AUA guidelines change about how we evaluate and manage chronic male pelvic pain? In this episode of BackTable Urology, Dr. Susan MacDonald (Penn State) joins host Dr. George Koch (Ohio State University) to break down the new American Urological Association (AUA) guidelines on chronic male pelvic pain, including chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome and chronic scrotal content pain.
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About
Susan MacDonald, MD, is currently an Associate Professor of Urology at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. She completed her medical degree at the University of Florida in her home state and then completed her Urologic residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York. She then pursued a fellowship at Wake Forest University in reconstructive urology learning specialized techniques in urethral reconstruction, prosthetic urology, graft and flap creation, and microsurgical dissection. She has a particular interest in prostate cancer survivorship treating the ensuing erectile dysfunction, and stress urinary incontinence. Additionally, she is passionate about Peyronie’s disease, chronic orchalgia/CPPS, and DEI/Women in Urology. Outside her clinical practice, resident education is the main focus of her career; she is the program director for the urologic residency at Penn State.
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