We are delighted to welcome Dr. Jimena Cubillos to the Division of Pediatric Urology here at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Dr. Cubilllos was born in Bogota, Colombia and emigrated to the United States as a small child. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion and her Doctorate in Medicine, both from the University of Rochester.

In medical school, Dr. Cubillos participated in basic nephrologic research, with her clinical interests gravitating to surgery and caring for children. Following surgery and urology residencies at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, she completed a two-year fellowship in pediatric urology at Long Island Jewish/Schneider Children's Hospital, serving as attending pediatric urologist at Metropolitan Hospital and Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.

Dr. Cubillos brings expertise in minimally invasive, laparoscopic and robotic pediatric urology to our division. She is fluent in Spanish, as well as American Sign Language and is passionate to improve outreach to both of these communities

• Krill A, Cubillos J, Gitlin J, Palmer LS. Abdominopelvic ultrasound: a cost-effective way to diagnose solitary kidney. J Urol. 2012 Jun; 187(6):2201-4.
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• Cubillos J, Palmer JS, Friedman SC, Freyle J, Lowe FC, Palmer LS. Familial testicular torsion. J Urol. 2011 Jun; 185(6 Suppl):2469-72.
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• Cubillos J, George A, Gitlin J, Palmer LS. Tailored sutureless meatoplasty: A new technique for correcting meatal stenosis. J Pediatr Urol. 2012 Feb; 8(1):92-6.
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• Cubillos J, Reda EF, Gitlin J, Zelkovic P, Palmer LS. A conservative approach to testicular rupture in adolescent boys. J Urol. 2010 Oct; 184(4 Suppl):1733-8.
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• Kirby RJ, Jin Y, Fu J, Cubillos J, Swertfeger D, Arend LJ. Dynamic regulation of sphingosine-1-phosphate homeostasis during development of mouse metanephric kidney. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2009 Mar; 296(3):F634-41.
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