Our Urology Specialists

Learn more about the urology team at BID Needham.

Stephen J. Eyre, MD

Stephen Jacobs Eyre, MDDr. Eyre is a Board Certified Urologist and Chief of the Division of Urology at BID Needham. Dr. Eyre is a clinical instructor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. A graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine, Dr. Eyre completed his surgical internship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital followed by Urology residency at the Harvard-Longwood Program in Urology where he was named Chief Resident in 2012. He is on the clinical staff and operates at BID Needham and BIDMC. His clinical interests include the diagnosis and management of urologic stone disease, benign prostate enlargement, voiding dysfunction, treatment of testosterone deficiency, urologic malignancy, and inflammatory/infectious conditions of the urinary tract. He performs many types of procedures in the office (cystoscopy, vasectomy, urodynamic testing, sacral neuromodulation therapy) as well as the operating room.

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Yanina Barbalat, MD

Yanina Barbalat, MDDr. Barbalat is a Board Certified Urologist and fellowship trained in voiding dysfunction and female pelvic medicine. A graduate of UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Dr. Barbalat completed her Urology residency at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School where she served as Co-Chief Resident. She completed her fellowship at Columbia University. Dr. Barbalat sees patients at Needham Urology Associates, she is a member of the medical staff at BID Needham and she operates at BID Needham. Her clinical interests include male and female voiding dysfunction, benign prostatic hyperplasia, incontinence, overactive bladder, kidney stones and general urology. Dr. Barbalat is fluent in Spanish and Russian.

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Philip V. Barbosa, MD

Philip V. Barbosa, MDDr. Barbosa is a Board Certified Urologist. Dr. Barbosa is a clinical instructor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School and completed two years of general surgery internship/residency followed by four years of Urology residency at Stanford University. He is on the clinical staff and operates at BID Needham, BIDMC, and BID Milton. His clinical interests include evaluation and management of benign prostate enlargement and he performs several specialized/minimally-invasive procedures including UroLift and laser enucleation of the prostate. Additionally, he has interests in the management of prostate cancer, minimally invasive urologic surgery, urologic oncology and management of urologic stone disease. He is the Site Director for the Needham Community Urology rotation, which is an integral part of the BIDMC Urology Residency Training Program. He is fluent in English and is also proficient in Spanish and Portuguese.

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Peter Chang, MD

Peter Chang, MDPeter Chang, MD, is an assistant professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Prostate Cancer Care Center at BIDMC. He is board certified in urology and graduated from the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He completed his internship and residency at Brigham & Women's Hospital and a fellowship at BIDMC. His clinical interests are Prostate cancer, Bladder cancer, Testicular cancer, Kidney cancer, Robotic Laparoscopic Surgery, Prostate biopsy, Urologic oncology, Laparoscopic and Minimally invasive surgery.

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Joseph M. Ciccone, MD

Joseph M. Ciccone, MDJoseph M. Ciccone, MD, is a urologic surgeon at BID–Needham. A general urologist with clinical interests in stone disease, endourology, urologic cancer, and female urinary incontinence, he is a clinical instructor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He also specializes in voiding dysfunction, incontinence, prostate problems, and male infertility and sexual health. He is a member of the American Urologic Association and the American Association of Clinical Urologists, among other professional societies. A published poet, Dr. Ciccone earned his medical degree at the New Jersey Medical School and completed his residency at the Harvard Program in Urology at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

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617-541-6350

Boris Gershman, MD

Boris Gershman, MDBoris Gershman, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Gershman serves as a urologic surgeon for the formal multidisciplinary genitourinary cancer clinic at BID Needham’s Cancer Center. He is board certified in urology and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellowship in urologic oncology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Dr. Gershman’s clinical interests include prostate cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, testicular cancer, robotic surgery and minimally-invasive surgery. Dr. Gershman speaks Russian fluently.

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Stephen Lazarou, MD

Stephen Lazarou, MDStephen Lazarou, MD, is a clinical instructor of urology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Lazarou specializes in a full range of evaluations and treatments of male reproductive and sexual issues, with an emphasis on fertility preservation for cancer patients, treatment of severe male factor infertility, and treatment of men with symptoms of low testosterone and erectile dysfunction. He is specialty trained in advanced microsurgery of the male reproductive system. Board certified in urology, he has lectured nationally and internationally on various topics in male reproductive and sexual medicine. Dr. Lazarou earned his medical degree from The Medical College of Wisconsin and completed his residency at the University of Toronto and a fellowship in male infertility and sexual medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

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Shaun Wason, MD

Shaun Wason, MDShaun Wason, MD, is a Board Certified and fellowship-trained urologist. A graduate of Howard University College of Medicine, Dr. Wason completed his general surgery internship at Washington Hospital Center and residency in urology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 2011. He completed his fellowship in laparoscopy, robotic surgery and endourology at Eastern Virginia Medical School prior to becoming a partner at Urology of Virginia. Dr. Wason relocated to Boston in 2016 to join the faculty in the Department of Urology at Boston University/Boston Medical Center as an Assistant Professor. He joined the Associated Physicians of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2023. His clinical interests include the evaluation and management of benign prostate hyperplasia and he performs several specialized/minimally-invasive procedures including UroLift, Rezum and laser enucleation of the prostate. Additionally, he has interests in the diagnosis and management of kidney stones, urologic malignancies, ureteropelvic junction obstruction and general urology. Dr. Wason sees patients at two convenient community locations: Needham Urology Associates and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Milton (BID Milton). He is on the clinical staff and operates at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Needham (BID Needham) and BID Milton.

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Lorianne Gillis, Nurse Practitioner

Lorianne Gillis, NPLorianne is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner. She attended Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree as well as her Masters of Science in Nursing.

Jessica LaBelle, Nurse Practitioner

Jessica LaBelle, NPJessica is a board-certified Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. She attended University of Massachusetts Boston, where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise and Health Sciences. She went on to graduate from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions with a Master of Science in Nursing.