Hans Arora, MD, PhD

AUA AMA Delegate

Hans Arora, MD, PhD is a practicing pediatric urologist at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He currently represents the American Urological Association as a delegate to the American Medical Association House of Delegates, and chairs the urology caucus of the AMA. He served on the AMA Council on Legislation and Council on Medical Education, as well as the national chair of both the AMA Residents & Fellows Section and AMA Medical Student Section.

Dr. Arora is a standing member of the AUA Public Policy Council, and is a previous recipient of the AUA H. Logan Holtgrewe Legislative Fellowship, where he spent a period of time working in the office of former Congressman Pat Tiberi (OH-12) when the Congressman was the Chair of the Health Subcommittee of House Ways and Means. Dr. Arora is a member of the AUA Young Urologists Committee, and a former chair of the AUA Residents and Fellows Committee. He is a graduate of the pediatric urology fellowship at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and completed his urology residency at Cleveland Clinic. His ongoing interests involve the intersection of policy & advocacy and health care, particularly with respect to rural health, access to care, and telemedicine.

Richard Pelman, MD

AUA AMA Delegate

Dr. Pelman is the Clinical Professor Emeritus in the Department of Urology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and serves as the Chair of the Washington State Urology Society’s Committee on Men’s Health. Prior to his retirement in December 2019, he practiced general urology, serving the greater Seattle, Washington area. Dr. Pelman currently hosts The Original Guide to Men’s Health podcast.

Dr. Pelman chaired the Male Health ad hoc committee for the American Urological Association, developed and presented courses on Male Health for the AUA, the Western Section of the AUA, and the Washington State Urology Society. He also serves as an AUA Delegate to the AMA. He has served as President of the American Association of Clinical Urologists, The Washington State Urology Society, and the Northwest Urological Association.

Ruchika Talwar, MD

AUA AMA Residents and Fellow Section

Ruchika Talwar, MD, is a urologic oncology fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the American Urological Association's 2022 H. Logan Holtgrewe legislative fellow. Dr. Talwar completed her residency training at the University of Pennsylvania where she was also an associate fellow at Wharton's Penn Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. She has formal training in quality improvement, health policy research, and advocacy. In addition to her role as a Resident and Fellow Section delegate in the American Medical Association House of Delegates, she is the chair of the AUA Resident and Fellows Committee.

Jason Jameson, MD

AUA AMA Alternate Delegate

Dr. Jameson works at the Phoenix VA and is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Medicine and completed his residency at the University of Utah.

He is an active member of the American Urological Association, and was the 2018 AUA Gallagher Health Policy Scholar. He has represented the AUA as an Alternate Delegate to the American Medical Association since 2019. He is the Health Policy Committee Vice-Chair for the Western Section AUA.  

He was a previous President of the Arizona Urologic Society and has served on the Board of the Arizona Medical Association since 2017. As the current ArMA Secretary, he works with state legislators advocating for urology telemedicine and testifying at committee hearings. Men’s Health is the focus in his clinical activities, including developing the Men’s Health Program at his previous employer, Mayo Clinic Arizona, and speaking at national and international conferences. He is the current President of the American Society for Men’s Health.