Hunter Buchanan Wessells (c. 1963) is an American urologist. Hunter Buchanan Wessells was born to Henry W. Wessells III and his wife Nancy Hunter Wessells. The family was related to Henry W. Wessells, and lived in

Paoli, Pennsylvania Paoli ( ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Chester County near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is situated in portions of two townships: Tredyffrin and Willistown. At the 2020 census, it had a total population of 6,002. H ...

. Hunter Buchanan Wessells earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...

, and at the time of his marriage to Bokgi Choi in 1995, was an assistant professor of urology at the

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Health Science Center, where Choi also taught. Wessells holds the Nelson Chair of Urology at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...

. In 2021, the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons awarded him the Barringer Medal.

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