Principal Investigator
Active Staff, Vancouver General Hospital
Consultant Staff, Children’s & Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia
Consultant Staff, St. Paul’s Hospital
Consultant Staff, GF Strong Centre
Consultant Staff, Pearson Hospital
Co-Director, Vancouver Ejaculatory Dysfunction Clinic
Clinical Professor, Department of Urologic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Research Interests
Infertility; neurogenic bladderDr. Nigro’s research focus is on adult urologic cases. He also studies infertility and urologic prosthetics.
Dr. Nigro is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Urologic Sciences at the University of British Columbia. He is also a Principal Investigator at ICORD, and Co-Director of the Vancouver Ejaculatory Dysfunction Clinic. Dr. Nigro also works with many hospitals; he is a member of the Consultant Staff at the Children’s & Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia, St. Paul’s Hospital, GF Strong Centre, and Pearson Hospital.
Current Lab Members
| Medical Residents |
| Colin Davie |
Current Opportunities in the Lab
Please contact Dr. Nigro with inquiries.
Recent publications
- Walter, M et al.. 2020. Intradetrusor OnabotulinumtoxinA Injections Ameliorate Autonomic Dysreflexia while Improving Lower Urinary Tract Function and Urinary Incontinence-Related Quality of Life in Individuals with Cervical and Upper Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury.. J Neurotrauma. doi: 10.1089/neu.2020.7115.
- Fougere, RJ et al.. 2016. Reduction in Bladder-Related Autonomic Dysreflexia after OnabotulinumtoxinA Treatment in Spinal Cord Injury.. J Neurotrauma. doi: 10.1089/neu.2015.4278.
- Liu, N, Fougere, R, Zhou, MW, Nigro, MK, Krassioukov, AV. 2013. Autonomic dysreflexia severity during urodynamics and cystoscopy in individuals with spinal cord injury.. Spinal Cord. doi: 10.1038/sc.2013.113.
- Gotto, GT, Chang, SD, Nigro, MK. 2010. MRI in the diagnosis of incomplete testicular torsion.. Br J Radiol. doi: 10.1259/bjr/95900989.
- Ma, S et al.. 2000. Selection of viable sperm from frozen-thawed immotile spermatozoa based on the phenomenon of sperm tail curling in men who underwent testicular biopsy and epididymal sperm aspiration.. Fertil Steril. doi: 10.1016/s0015-0282(00)00550-1.
