Michael Stifelman, MD, is endourology fellow for the department of urology at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell Campus in New York. He is a member of the American Medical Association and the American Urologic Association. He received his bachelor's degree cum laude from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and his doctor of medicine from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y. In 1998 he won first prize in the N.Y. Section Valentine Resident Essay Contest.