Dr. Irene McAleer is board certified in urological surgery by the American Board of Urology and has practiced as a pediatric urologist since 1990. She has worked at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, National Naval Medical Center, Water Reed Army Medical Center and Children’s National Hospital and Health Center. Previous academic appointments include assistant professor of the Departments of Pediatrics and Surgery (Urology) at the University of Connecticut, assistant professor of Surgery (Urology) and Pediatrics at University of California, San Diego and assistant professor of Surgery at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Currently, she is an assistant professor of Pediatrics at University of California, San Francisco – Fresno.

Her special interests include the prenatal management of urological problems and conditions. She has worked with neonatologists, perinatologists and geneticists to assuage the fears and concerns of parents who have received news of a prenatally diagnosed urologic condition.

Active in the medical community, Dr. McAleer has served as president of the American Association of Pediatric Urology and is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Surgeons, European Society of Pediatric Urology, American Urological Association and the Society of Pediatric Urology.

Dr. McAleer speaks at medical conferences and meetings and her work has been published in numerous medical texts and journals including the Journal of Urology and Urology.

Dr. McAleer honorably retired from the United States Navy – Reserves in 2003. During her years of service, she earned numerous awards including the Army Commendation Medal, the Navy Achievement Medal and the Navy Meritorious Service Ribbon.

Dr. McAleer received her medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus. She completed an internship in surgery at the Naval Hospital in Oakland, a residency in urology at the National Naval Medical Center in Maryland and a fellowship in pediatric urology with the University of California, San Diego Medical Center at the Children’s Hospital and Health Center, San Diego. Dr. McAleer has a Master of Business Administration degree from Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Business School in Scotland.

Publications

Hwang AH, McAleer IM, Shapiro E, Miller OF, Krous HF, Kaplan GW. “Congenital mid ureteral strictures.” J Urol. 2005; 174(5):1999-2002.
PMID: 16217377

McAleer IM, Kaplan GW, Bradley JS, Carroll SF, Griffith DP. “Endotoxin content in renal calculi.” J Urol.; 169(5):1813-4.
PMID: 12686850

Miller OF, Bloom TL, Smith LJ, McAleer IM, Kaplan GW, Kolon TF. “Early hospital discharge for intravesical ureteroneocystostomy.” J Urol. 2002; 167(6):2556-9.
PMID: 11992088

Tarman GJ, Kaplan GW, Lerman SL, McAleer IM, Losasso BE. “Lower genitourinary injury and pelvic fractures in pediatric patients.” Urology. 2002; 59(1):123-6; discussion 126.
PMID: 11796295

McAleer IM, Kaplan GW, LoSasso BE. “Renal and testis injuries in team sports.” J Urol. 2002; 168(4 Pt 2):1805-7.
PMID: 12352364

McAleer IM, Kaplan GW, Bradley JS, Carroll SF. “Staghorn calculus endotoxin expression in sepsis.” Urology. 2002; 59(4):601.
PMID: 11927328

McAleer IM, Kaplan GW, LoSasso BE. “Congenital urinary tract anomalies in pediatric renal trauma patients.” J Urol. 2002; 168(4 Pt 2):1808-10; discussion 1810.
PMID: 12352365

Miller OF, Lashley DB, McAleer IM, Kaplan GW. “Diagnosis of urethral obstruction with prenatal magnetic resonance imaging.” J Urol. 2002; 168(3):1158-9.
PMID: 12187261

Lashley DB, McAleer IM, Kaplan GW. “Ipsilateral ureteroureterostomy for the treatment of vesicoureteral reflux or obstruction associated with complete ureteral duplication.” J Urol. 2001; 165(2):552-4.
PMID: 11176433

McAleer IM, Kaplan GW. “Is routine karyotyping necessary in the evaluation of hypospadias and cryptorchidism?” J Urol. 2001; 165(6 Pt 1):2029-31; discussion 2031-2.
PMID: 11371923

Lerman SE, McAleer IM, Kaplan GW. “Sex assignment in cases of ambiguous genitalia and its outcome.” Urology. 2000; 55(1):8-12.
PMID: 10654885

Lashley DB, Masliah E, Kaplan GW, McAleer IM. “Megacystis microcolon intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome: bladder distension and pyelectasis in the fetus without anatomic outflow obstruction.” Urology. 2000; 55(5):774.
PMID: 10792103

Powell CR, Mcaleer I, Alagiri M, Kaplan GW. “Comparison of flaps versus grafts in proximal hypospadias surgery.” J Urol. 2000; 163(4):1286-8; discussion 1288-9.
PMID: 10737530

McAleer IM, Kaplan GW. “Renal function before and after pyeloplasty: does it improve?” J Urol. 1999; 162(3 Pt 2):1041-4.
PMID: 10458428

McAleer IM, Packer MG, Kaplan GW, Scherz HC, Krous HF, Billman GF. “Fertility index analysis in cryptorchidism.” J Urol. 1995; 153(4):1255-8.
PMID: 7869523

McAleer IM, Kaplan GW. “Pediatric genitourinary trauma.” Urol Clin North Am. 1995; 22(1):177-88.
PMID: 7855953

Tennenbaum SY, Lerner SE, McAleer IM, Packer MG, Scherz HC, Kaplan GW. “Preoperative laparoscopic localization of the nonpalpable testis: a critical analysis of a 10-year experience.” J Urol. 1994; 151(3):732-4.
PMID: 7905934

McAleer IM, Kaplan GW, Scherz HC, Packer MG, Lynch FP. “Genitourinary trauma in the pediatric patient.” Urology. 1993; 42(5):563-7; discussion 567-8.
PMID: 8236601

Yeager JK, Findlay RF, McAleer IM. “Penile verrucous carcinoma.” Arch Dermatol. 1990; 126(9):1208-10.
PMID: 2396837