Julie Riley, MD, MBA, MS, FACS
Director of Renal Transplantation
Vice Chair of Operations for the Department of Surgery
University of Missouri – Columbia
Biography
Dr. Julie Riley MD, MBA, MS, FACS is a professor of Urology at the University of Missouri – Columbia. She is the Director of Renal Transplantation and Vice Chair of Operations for the Department of Surgery. She has throughout her career served as urology clinic director, executive director of surgical services, urology research director and director of endourology. She graduated from St. Louis University School of Medicine and completed a 6-year urology residency at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She completed a 2-year fellowship in endourology/robotics/ laparoscopy at the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her combined MBA/MS in Healthcare Leadership at University of Texas Dallas through the Alliance for Physicians Leaders program in 2025.
Her clinical interests include surgical and medical management of kidney stones, ureteral reconstruction, Laser enucleation of the prostate, renal surgery and renal transplantation. She also has interests in clinical efficiency, advocacy, education and physician ease of practice and career longevity.
Dr. Riley is very active within the American Urologic Association and the South Central Section of the AUA. She is currently the Secretary of the South Central Section. She serves on the AUA Business and Leadership Committee. She has previously been a member of the AUA state advocacy committee and the Young Urologist committee. She has been on the program planning committee and the nominating committee for the SCS. She completed the AUA leadership program in 2019. She is a surgical coach in 2021 by helping to improve OR efficiency and confidence amongst surgeons.
Outside of the hospital, Julie is a long-distance triathlete. She has completed numerous half ironman triathlons, ironman triathlons and an Ultraman triathlon. She is passionate about medical aid trips, particularly in surgical training in developing countries, and has completed numerous trips to Peru and Honduras. Any free time she has, she enjoys being with her partner, Brian and their black lab, Izzy.
