Urology · Enlarged prostate · HoLEP · Aquablation
MD, FACS
In their words
Patients describe compassion at the hardest moments — including the day they first heard a difficult diagnosis.
Unhurried visits, plain-language explanations, and questions answered until there are none left.
Patients describe trust strong enough to follow him between health systems for surgery, and a care team that makes hard visits easier.
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About
Show up.
Listen.
Act.
Dr. Neff’s first patients weren’t in a clinic. As a firefighter–paramedic in Janesville, Wisconsin, he learned medicine where it is most human: at the kitchen table, on the roadside, in the moments when showing up is everything. That foundation — hands-on, unhurried, personal — still shapes how he practices today.
He earned his biology degree at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, his medical degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and completed his urology residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals. Today he is an Associate Professor of Urology at The University of Kansas Medical Center and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
He is nationally recognized for anatomic enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP / AEEP) and Aquablation therapy — and as a national instructor, he trains the surgeons who bring these techniques to patients across the United States.
Clinical focus
The gold-standard, size-independent procedure for enlarged prostate: the entire obstructing tissue is removed with minimal blood loss and rapid recovery.
Robotic, heat-free waterjet ablation that tailors tissue removal to your anatomy — designed to preserve ejaculatory and sexual function.
Including UroLift® and Optilume®, selected for the right patient to balance symptom relief with recovery time.
Evidence-based medication plans that relieve urinary symptoms while fitting your overall health — surgery only when it serves you.
Advanced endoscopic and minimally invasive techniques for kidney stones and urologic injuries.
Beyond the operating room
Training practicing surgeons across the United States in holmium laser enucleation of the prostate.
Recognized by University of Kansas urology residents in 2018 and 2024.
Principal investigator on AI-driven tools that help patients and clinicians personalize BPH care.
Invited faculty at national BPH and endourology meetings.
Building what’s next
Dr. Neff leads one of the first department-level AI adoption programs in academic urology. The goal is practical: tools that make surgical training sharper, research faster, and patient education clearer, built and tested inside a working surgical practice rather than bought off a shelf.
An AI-powered case preparation platform used daily by University of Kansas urology residents. It turns a single-screen case entry into a structured pre-operative briefing in under a minute, so residents walk into the operating room prepared to learn, not scrambling to catch up. Post-case debriefs feed an active research program on surgical education.
A literature search and retrieval tool built for how surgeons actually ask questions. It searches the urologic literature and pulls full-text evidence directly, cutting the distance between a clinical question and a sourced answer.
An interactive 3D anatomy application for patient education and resident teaching, built around the anatomic planes of prostate enucleation. Patients see exactly what their procedure does; trainees see the anatomy the way the surgeon does.
Principal investigator on AI-driven decision support for personalizing BPH care. Dr. Neff writes and speaks on the responsible adoption of AI in surgical practice, with a focus on tools that earn clinician trust through transparency and measured evidence.
Every tool above was designed, built, and iterated by Dr. Neff and his team, in clinical use today at an academic medical center.
Scholarship
Global impact
“Quality urologic care should transcend borders.”
For more than a decade, Dr. Neff has returned to Honduras each year — performing life-changing surgery and training the local physicians who carry the work forward long after the mission ends.
Qualifications
