Raymond Costabile

Dr. Raymond A. Costabile
Chairman of the Department of Urology at the University of Virginia
Born	1958 Washington, DC
Residence	Charlottesville, Virginia
Fields	Urology
Institutions	US Army, University of Virginia, American Board of Urology, Journal of Urology
Alma mater	Georgetown University
Notable awards	US Army Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star, Iraq War, 2003, America's Top Physicians, Consumers' Research Council of America, 2010.

Raymond A. Costabile, born in 1958 in Washington, DC, is the Jay Y. Gillenwater Professor of Urology and current Chair of the Department of Urology at the School of Medicine of the University of Virginia. Costabile is retired Colonel in the US Army and the former Chief of Urology Service at Madigan Army Medical Center. Costabile is a published author; his articles on men's reproductive health and infertility have been published in the Journal of Urology and Proceedings in the National Academy of Sciences, among other peer-reviewed scholarly journals. He has also been featured in television interviews in the national media.

Costabile obtained his B.S. from the Georgetown University. He received his medical degree in 1984 from Georgetown University School of Medicine, and finished his urology residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 1991. Costabile completed a specialty fellowship in Impotence and Infertility at the University of Virginia in 1993.

In 1993 Costabile was appointed Staff Urologist at Water Reed Army Medical Center, a position he held until 1999. During this time he was also Assistant Professor at the Department of Surgery of the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. He subsequently achieved the tenured position of Professor, a position he holds to the present day.

In 1999 Costabile was promoted to Chief of Urology Service and Urology Residency Program Director at Madigan Army Medical Center, one of the world's largest military urologic centers. Prior to retirement from the military in 2004, he volunteered for deployment in the Iraq War. During his deployment, he commanded the 47th Combat Support Hospital. Under Costabile's command, the 47th CSH was the principle coalition combat hospital, responsible for caring for over 92% of all battle casualties during the initial nine months of the conflict.