Dr. Timothy B. Boone is the Interim Dean of the Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine. He is Emeritus Professor of Urology and the Craig C. Brown and Suzanne Smith Centennial Chair in Medical Education at Houston Methodist and the former Director of the Education Institute at Houston Methodist.
Dr Boone grew up in Dallas as the son of a urologist and the grandson of the Methodist Hospital of Dallas administrator for over 30 years. He is the father of 4 and “Graddy” to 7 grandchildren.
Tim earned his Master of Science in physiology and M.D./Ph.D. (neuroscience) at the University of Texas Medical and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston. He completed his urology residency training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. In 1991 he joined the faculty in the Department of Urology at UT Southwestern for two years and then recruited to Baylor College of Medicine where he joined the Scott Department of Urology. In 2000 Dr. Boone was named Professor and Russell Scott Chair of the Department of Urology where he served until 2008. Dr. Boone established a new Department of Urology at Houston Methodist in 2008 and served as Professor and Chair until 2022.
As the former Director of the Education Institute at Houston Methodist and Designated Institutional Official he helped establish 3 new residency programs at regional hospitals. Tim was instrumental in establishing Houston Methodist as a clinical campus for Texas A&M College of Medicine in 2016 and partnered to develop and implement the Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine (EnMed).
For over 30 years Dr. Boone actively participated in the care of spinal cord injured veterans with neurogenic bladder dysfunction at the VA Spinal Cord Injury Unit in Dallas and in Houston. Dr. Boone specialized in the treatment of patients with incontinence following prostatectomy, women with complex voiding disorders, and bladder problems related to neurologic disease including spinal cord injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease. He has maintained active participation in research throughout his career and closed his basic science lab in 2018 to focus on medical education.
Throughout his career Dr. Boone has written over 150 peer-reviewed publications and given hundreds of lectures regionally and nationally while serving as a visiting professor for many departments of urology. He is a member of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons, Clinical Society of GU Surgeons, American Urological Association, and the AOA Honor Medical Society. He serves as consultant reviewer for several scientific journals including Neurourology and Urodynamics, Journal of Urology, British Journal of Urology, Urology, Spinal Cord, and the New England Journal of Medicine. He is on the editorial board of Nature Reviews in Urology. Dr. Boone was elected as a Trustee to the American Board of Urology in 2006 and served as President of the American Board of Urology from 2011 – 2012.