Ted Skolarus

About

Ted Skolarus, MD, MPH, FACS, is a urologic oncologist specializing in the care of patients with prostate cancer. His clinical expertise includes managing men with elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels and performing transperineal prostate biopsies. Dr. Skolarus has fellowship training in urologic oncology, health services research, and implementation science. His research focuses on understanding and improving the care of men with prostate cancer, utilizing quantitative and qualitative health services research, clinical trials, and state-of-the-art implementation science methods to optimize best practice implementation in real-world clinical settings. He studies issues related to healthcare cost, quality, and access, as well as strategies to ensure patients receive the right care at the right time and place. Dr. Skolarus has contributed extensively to the field with over 200 publications, and he has presented at numerous regional, national, and international meetings. He has served as faculty in the National Cancer Institute’s Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Cancer and as a standing reviewer for the NIH Center for Scientific Review. His research has been funded by prominent organizations including the National Cancer Institute, VA Health Services Research and Development Service, American Urological Association, and American Cancer Society.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Environmental health
• Family medicine
• Internal medicine
• Nursing
• Medical emergency
• Emergency medicine
• Surgery
• General surgery
• Pathology

Selected publications

• Turnover Among Early-Career Advanced Practice Clinicians

  JAMA Network Open · 2025-05-05 · 6 citations

  articleOpen access

  This cohort study examines the frequency of moves to other practices among advanced practice clinicians (APCs) to understand rates of turnover among early-career APCs, which has implications for their hiring, training, and retention.

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Expanding the scope of shared decision-making in vascular access planning for hemodialysis: a case for interprofessional collaboration

  BMC Nephrology · 2025-07-01 · 3 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Vascular access planning guidelines have shifted from a fistula-centered to a patient-centered approach. We advocate for expansion of the shared decision-making dyad between the nephrology team and patient to include other vascular access planning stakeholders. We propose earlier and consistent interprofessional collaboration facilitates more constructive discussions that could improve outcomes.

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• Task Shifting and Task Sharing in Surgical Care

  Annals of Surgery Open · 2025-09-01 · 1 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding

  The United States surgeon workforce shortage is expected to worsen in coming years, exacerbated by burnout, surgeon aging, and retirement.1 As residency training positions have been slow in expanding, one natural response has been to grow an advanced practice provider (APP) workforce within surgical specialties. Limited early data suggest rapid expansion of APPs involved in surgical care and potential benefits including improved access and clinical outcomes.2 However, APP integration into surgic…

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• Urological Procedures and Impact on Advanced Practice Provider Burnout, Job Satisfaction, and Salary: AUA Census Analysis

  Urology Practice · 2025-08-18 · 1 citations

  article

  INTRODUCTION: More than 25% of advanced practice providers (APPs) in urology suffer from burnout. We hypothesized that procedural independence would be associated with lower burnout, higher job satisfaction, and higher salary for urologic APPs. METHODS: The AUA Census data were used to conduct a retrospective cross-sectional study. The Maslach Burnout Inventory and independent procedure data were collected from the 2019 survey. Work-life balance responses were collected from 2022 to 2023. Salary…

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• Transportation insecurity, loneliness, and emotional support among individuals with a history of cancer

  JNCI Cancer Spectrum · 2026-02-27

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  INTRODUCTION: Cancer survivors are at-risk for transportation insecurity given the frequency of medical visits and cost of care. Little is known about how transportation insecurity relates to important social relationship measures adversely impacting cancer survivors (eg, loneliness, lack of emotional support). Thus, we evaluated the association between transportation insecurity and social relationship measures among patients with and without a history of cancer. METHODS: Using data from the 202…

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Recent grants

• Improving the prostate cancer survivorship care of veterans

  NIH · 2013–2018

• De-implementation of low value castration for men with prostate cancer

  NIH · $3.6M · 2018–2024

• Refining castration use for recurrent prostate cancer

  NIH · $1.4M · 2020–2025

Frequent coauthors

• Brent K. Hollenbeck

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  256 shared

• Megan E.V. Caram

  172 shared

• Bruce L. Jacobs

  University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

  119 shared

• Tudor Borza

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  116 shared

• Daniela Wittmann

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  94 shared

• Jeffrey S. Montgomery

  Michigan Medicine

  89 shared

• Vahakn B. Shahinian

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  88 shared

• Sarah T. Hawley

  Michigan Medicine

  82 shared

Labs

• Ted SkolarusPI

Education

• M.D.

  University of Chicago

• Other

  University of Chicago

• B.S.

  University of Chicago

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