Dr. Wagle to become first WNY physician to lead American Urological Association

Datta G. Wagle, M.D., of Williamsville has been elected as president-elect of the American Urological Association at the Northeastern Section of AUA's annual conference in Santa Fe, N.M.

He will serve a three-year tenure starting in May 2009 as president-elect and become president of the American Urological Society in May 2010. It is the first time in the AUA's 110-year history that a Western New York physician has been named as its president.

Dr. Wagle is a senior partner at Main Urology Associates, PC, in Williamsville and chief of Urology at St. Joseph and Sisters of Charity hospitals, part of the Catholic Health System. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of Catholic Health, serving from 1998 to 2008, and currently serves on a special Catholic Health Blue Ribbon Committee, overseeing the consolidation of Sisters of Charity and St. Joseph hospitals.

A board-certified urologist and fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Wagle is also a clinical assistant professor of urology at the University at Buffalo and adjunct clinical associate professor of surgery at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Dr. Wagle is a member of 21 national and international organizations. He has served on 15 different medical boards and 79 organizational committees locally, regionally, statewide and nationally.

In 2003, he was appointed by former Gov. George Pataki to serve on the state's Administrative Review Board for Professional Medical Conduct.