Charles J. Devine Jr.

🇺🇸 United States🏥 Eastern Virginia Medical Schoolb. 1923 – d. 1999

Role

Founder, Devine-Jordan School (EVMS)

Trainees (1)

🇺🇸 Gerald H. Jordan

Training and career

• Born and died 1923, Norfolk, Virginia; February 12, 1999¹
• Medical school George Washington University School of Medicine¹
• Other training Internship, Johns Hopkins Hospital; urology fellowship, Cleveland Clinic¹
• Leadership First chair, Department of Urology, Eastern Virginia Medical School²
• Leadership Co-founder with Patrick Devine of the EVMS adult and pediatric genitourinary reconstructive surgery fellowship, 1975¹
• Honors AUA Distinguished Contribution Award, 1993; Ramon Guiteras Award, 1997¹

Biography

In a Norfolk operating room, Charles Devine and Charles Horton reconsidered how a hypospadias repair was being done.² Gerald Jordan's memorial account describes that encounter as the start of years of reconstructive work together.² The two surgeons developed operations for hypospadias, epispadias, Peyronie disease, genital trauma and phallic reconstruction.² Devine also worked with his brother Patrick on urethral stricture reconstruction, including patch graft techniques.²

Their work grew out of a local practice that also built a urology residency and helped establish Eastern Virginia Medical School, where Charles became the first department chair.² In 1975 the Devine brothers founded the adult and pediatric genitourinary reconstructive surgery fellowship at EVMS.¹ Devine, Patrick Devine and Horton held surgical teaching clinics in Norfolk where visiting urologists and plastic surgeons watched operations over periods that could last weeks.² The clinics showed primary and complex hypospadias operations as well as repairs after genital trauma.²

Devine carried those lessons to postgraduate courses and international meetings, explaining tissue handling across reconstructive problems.² He was among the founders of the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons.²

Key Publications

Their work also addressed Peyronie disease, penile and genital trauma, and phallic reconstruction.² Devine and his brother Patrick developed patch graft urethroplasty techniques for urethral stricture.²

1. Devine PC, Horton CE, Devine CJ, et al. "Use of Full Thickness Skin Grafts in Repair of Urethral Strictures." Journal of Urology. 1963;90(1):67–71. doi

   Full-thickness skin patch graft urethroplasty (1963). Helped develop and disseminate full-thickness skin patch graft repair for urethral stricture.

   Cited on: Penile / Preputial Skin Graft
2. Devine CJ, Horton CE. "Surgical Treatment of Peyronie’s Disease with a Dermal Graft." Journal of Urology. 1974;111(1):44–49. doi

   Devine–Horton dermal graft for Peyronie’s disease (1974). Described dermal graft replacement of the tunical defect after excision of a Peyronie’s plaque.

   Cited on: Plaque Incision / Excision with Grafting

Recognition

GURS established the annual Charles J. Devine Jr. Lectureship in 2005.¹

Other Publications Cited on WARWIKI

3 additional publications with Charles J. Devine Jr. as a listed author are cited on WARWIKI, ordered by the number of pages that cite them. Papers whose author list is shortened to "et al." before this name are not included.

1. Horton CE, Devine CJ, Graham JK. "Fistulas of the penile urethra." Plast Reconstr Surg. 1980;66(3):407–418. doi
   Cited on: Urethrocutaneous Fistula · Urethroperineal Fistula
2. Jordan GH, Alter GJ, Gilbert DA, Horton CE, Devine CJ Jr. Penile prosthesis implantation in total phalloplasty. J Urol. 1994;152(2 Pt 1):410–414. doi
   Cited on: Erectile Prosthesis (Penile Implant) After Gender-Affirming Phalloplasty
3. Devine CJ Jr, Horton CE. Chordee without hypospadias. J Urol. 1973;110(2):264-271. doi
   Cited on: Congenital Penile Curvature

Footnotes

1. GURS Lectureship | Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

2. SPU: Goodwin, Hodgson and Devine � A Tribute to Three Urologic Pioneers. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹²