**Meet the editor**

Dr. Long is a board certified urologist who earned a doctorate of medicine from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN. He then completed general surgery internship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, and a fellowship in Molecular Genetics at the Howard University/Johns Hopkins University in the Washington DC and Baltimore Maryland.

Dr. Long trained in urological surgery at TUFTS New England Medical Center in Boston, MA, and completed his senior and chief resident years of training at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, WA. After completing his residency training, Dr. Long completed an Endourological Society Fellowship in robotics, laparoscopy, and endo-urology at the University of Washington. He is a member of the American Urological Association, American Board of Urology, American Association of Clinical Urologist, Society of Endourology, and Society of laparoscopic Surgeons. He is currently the director of urological robotic surgery and the chief of the robotics section at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. Dr. Long serves as a robotic surgery proctor for Intuitive Surgical and an asst clinical professor of Surgery and serves a board member of Waveform Lithotripsy.
