Timothy Boone, PhD, MD
Timothy B. Boone, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, D.Sc. (honorary)
Dr. Timothy B. Boone is the Interim Dean for Texas A&M’s School of Engineering Medicine. He is a Professor of Urology and holds the Craig C. Brown and Susan Smith Centennial Chair in Medical Education. Additionally, he is the Director of the Education Institute for the Houston Methodist Hospital System and a member of the Neurological Institute. Dr. Boone also serves as an Associate Dean and Professor of Urology at Texas A&M College of Medicine. Dr Boone 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 moved 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.
Dr. Boone currently serves as the Director of the Education Institute at Houston Methodist and Associate Designated Institutional Official helping establish 3 new GME programs at regional hospitals. He established 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 he 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. Boone specializes 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 maintained active participation in research throughout his career, focused on mechanisms of sensory control and dysfunction in the bladder and urethra related to spinal cord injury, diabetes, and obstruction. He closed his lab in 2018 to focus on medical education.
Throughout his career Dr. Boone has written over 140 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, Texas Urological Society, Society for Neuroscience, Society for Urodynamics, Female Urology, Urogenital Reconstruction, 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.