Historical foundations of the specialty — the stories, surgeons, and discoveries that built reconstructive urology and urogynecology. This section is deliberately about the lineage rather than the literature: how urethral surgery passed from Sushruta's reed catheters to robotic urethroplasty across three millennia, how the McIndoe vaginoplasty descended from Wharton's lessons in WWII Burma, how the Brantley Scott AUS evolved from Foley's earliest experiments, and how the field's named eponyms — Heaney, Latzko, McCall, Boari, Mitrofanoff, Devine, Turner-Warwick, Webster, McAninch, Raz, Comiter — link to the patients and techniques that defined them.

The two pages below are complementary: the History pages narrate the technique evolution by domain (urethral surgery, prolapse and urogynecology, prosthetics and ED), while Surgeons & Lineage is a searchable directory + fellowship-training tree organized by the two reconstructive subspecialties — GURS (genitourinary reconstructive surgery) and URPS (urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery). The lineage trees show who trained whom, making explicit the apprentice-master fellowship structure that still defines contemporary practice.

• HistoryOrigins and evolution of reconstructive urology, pelvic surgery, and prosthetic therapy — urethral surgery, prolapse, and ED treatment
• Surgeons & LineageSearchable directory and fellowship training trees — GURS and URPS, side by side