Gender: Male
Clinical Interest for Patients: My clinical passion is treating incontinence and prolapse. These are major quality of life concerns which are no longer tolerated by women today. Although the topic was stigmatized in the past, seeing improvements in my patients' quality of life after medical and surgical treatment of incontinence and prolapse motivated me to make this field my sub-specialty.
Care Philosophy: I take pride educating patients on treatment options to empower them to make the best health care decisions. Our staff is especially compassionate and skilled in examining women and in helping their families understand that urogynecologic problems are not outgrown–they must be addressed and treated.
Personal Interests: On a personal note, I live in Englewood, CO with my wife, Cristina, and young son, Henry. We enjoy visiting the elephant exhibit at the Denver Zoo and fishing at Kenosha Pass. My favorite place to enjoy a meal with my family is Chipotle Mexican Grill.

Website
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term="Muffly TM"[Author]

Research Interests
My research interests focus on how fibroid tumors of the uterus impact prolapse and incontinence. I also have a passion for creating simulators that use instruments similar to chopsticks to teach minimally invasive procedures to residents and fellows. Every day we use surgical thread, called suture, in the operating room. I enjoy studying the best ways to tie suture to make the strongest and smallest knots imaginable.

Clinical Interests for Referring Providers: I enjoy educating my patients on treatment options so that they can be empowered to make health care decisions. I see patients at Main Campus and Lone Tree as well as operate at Main Campus. My specialty is vaginal and laparoscopic surgery as well as complex incontinence and prolapse surgery.

Research Interest for Referring Providers: I enjoy studying the fellowship matching process from the perspective of the applicants and program directors. My publications have focused on creating models and nomogram tools to select fellows for various subspecialties. Recently we have published cross-sectional studies of applicants and fellowship directors to determine what are the attributes that lead to a successful match in all four ABOG-approved fellowships.

CV: Muffly CV August 2012.docx