Alan W. Shindel graduated from the school of medicine at Washington University in Saint Louis in 2002.   He completed his residency training in urology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in 2007.  After completion of his residency he started a 3-year research and clinical fellowship in andrology (men’s reproductive and sexual health) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) under the direction of Drs. Tom Lue and Ira Sharlip.  He joined the faculty of urology at the University of California Davis (UC Davis) in 2010 as an assistant professor of urology; he was promoted to associate professor of urology in 2014.  His clinical practice at that time was devoted towards care of patients with sexual concerns, urinary tract symptoms, and chronic pain syndromes.  During his time at UC Davis he served in numerous capacities on the medical school admissions committee and was director of the medical student rotations in urology.  He was the Inaugural Editor in Chief for Sexual Medicine, an open access journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine from 2012 to 2015 and served on the board of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America from 2013 to 2015. In 2015 he left UC Davis to serve as a Medical Director at Genomic Health Inc, a manufacturer of genomic based tests for prostate cancer.  After two years at Genomic Health Inc.  Dr. Shindel returned to UCSF in 2017 as an Associate Professor of Urology and was promoted to Professor in 2021. In 2020, Dr. Shindel was re-appointed as Editor in Chief for Sexual Medicine.