Hans Arora, MD, PhD

AUA AMA Lead 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.

Jason Jameson, MD

AUA AMA 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.

Yaw Nyame, MD

AUA AMA Alternate Delegate

Dr. Nyame attended medical school at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and business school at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, graduating in 2012. Prior to medical school, he completed a master’s in health services and administration at the School of Public Health at the George Washington University. Dr. Nyame completed his general surgery internship and urology residency training at the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. He came to the Northwest to complete a Society of Urologic Oncology accredited fellowship at the University of Washington and joined the faculty upon the completion of his training.

Dr. Nyame has a research interest in health disparities in urologic cancers, with a focus on using patient-centered and community-engaged approaches to build translational health services, molecular, and clinical solutions to health inequities in prostate cancer and other urologic malignancies.

Ruchika Talwar, MD

AUA AMA Alternate Delegate

Dr. Ruchika Talwar is a urologic oncologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Medical Director in the Episodes of Care Office, where she leads and operationalizes VUMC’s specialty value-based care programs, including Medicare models and the innovative MyHealth Bundles program. She is a residency graduate from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, where she was affiliated with the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Wharton School. She completed a Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) fellowship and Masters of Management in Healthcare at Vanderbilt University.

Dr. Talwar has served in several national leadership roles within organized medicine, including Chair of the American Urological Association's residents and fellows committee, the Health Policy, Young Urologic Oncologists, and Women in Urologic Oncology Committees of the SUO, and is currently the Fundraising Chair for the AUAPAC. She held the H. Logan Holtgrewe Legislative Fellowship in 2022, when she spent time working on Capitol Hill in the office of Congressman Darren Soto (FL-09). Dr. Talwar’s clinical practice includes both robotic and open approaches to urologic cancer surgery, with a focus on patient-centered care. Her academic work in health policy, value transformation, drug pricing, and costs of care has been published in several JAMA journals and the Journal of Clinical Oncology. She makes several trips a year to Washington, DC, meeting with Congressional representatives as a passionate advocate for improving the quality of care provided to patients in the US.

Haritha Pavuluri, MD

AUA AMA Resident and Fellow Section Delegate

Haritha Pavuluri, MD, is a urology resident at Tulane University School of Medicine. Dr. Pavuluri is a graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville and has an interest in quality improvement, advocacy, and health policy research. In addition to her role as a Resident and Fellow Section delegate in the American Medical Association House of Delegates, she is a member of the Executive Committee of the AUA Policy & Advocacy Resident Work Group and the AUA Resident & Fellows Committee.