Somewhere between the operating room and the lecture hall, Dr. Premal Patel identified a gap that most of Canadian healthcare had simply learned to work around, and instead of working around it himself, he decided to close it. That decision produced Men’s Health Clinic Manitoba, where Dr. Patel now serves as Medical Director and Co-Founder, a role he has held since the clinic opened in 2022, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The clinic did not appear out of nowhere. It grew out of Dr. Patel’s parallel career inside the University of Manitoba’s Section of Urology, where his titles multiplied quietly over years of clinical work: Director of Urologic Research for the Section of Urology, and Director of Undergraduate Urologic Medical Education, both roles that place him at the center of how the next generation of Manitoba’s urologists gets trained. He also serves as Program Director of the University of Manitoba’s fellowship in Male Infertility, Sexual Medicine & Cancer Survivorship.
The Surgeon Behind the Title
Dr. Patel is, by training and by daily practice, a Urologic Surgeon and Assistant Professor in the Section of Urology at the University of Manitoba. Since July 2019, a run of seven years and two months, he has worked as a Male Reproductive Urologist in Winnipeg, a subspecialty description that undersells the precision the work actually requires.
He is, specifically, a fellowship-trained male reproductive urologist, with a practice built around male infertility, microsurgery, and sexual medicine, three fields that demand a level of technical exactness most surgical disciplines never ask for. Microsurgery in particular leaves almost no room for error, working as it does on structures measured in millimeters, and it is the kind of skill that is not picked up casually. He picked it up in Miami.
Where the Training Happened
Before Winnipeg, there was Florida. Dr. Patel completed a fellowship in Male Infertility, Microsurgery and Sexual Medicine at the University of Miami from 2018 to 2019, a single but formative year that sits at the hinge point of his career, the moment his general urology training narrowed into the specific, demanding subspecialty he now practices with a particular focus on male reproductive and sexual health.
It is a common enough path in surgical medicine, a fellowship year abroad or out of province, followed by a return home to build something with the skills acquired, but the follow-through matters more than the pattern. He returned to Manitoba and, within a few years of completing that fellowship, helped establish a clinic built specifically around the population his fellowship had trained him to treat.
Teaching While Treating
It would be simple enough for a surgeon this specialized to keep his focus narrow, confined to the operating room and the patients directly in front of him. Dr. Patel’s academic titles suggest otherwise. As Director of Undergraduate Urologic Medical Education at the University of Manitoba, he carries direct responsibility for how medical students first encounter the field of urology, at the exact stage in their training when a specialty either sticks or gets dismissed as a rotation to get through.
As Director of Urologic Research for the Section of Urology, he holds a parallel responsibility for the science underneath the practice, the studies and findings that will eventually reshape how male reproductive conditions get diagnosed and treated across the province.
A Practice With a Website and a Waiting List
Men’s Health Clinic Manitoba, reachable through its own website at mhclinic.ca, represents something still relatively rare in Canadian healthcare: a dedicated clinical home for men’s reproductive and sexual health, rather than a subspecialty folded quietly into a general urology practice. Its existence as a distinct institution, with Dr. Patel as both its clinical face and its administrative co-founder, signals a bet that patients benefit from a clinic built entirely around their specific condition, staffed by people who think about men’s health and related urologic concerns.
The Composite Picture
Add up the pieces of Dr. Patel’s record, the co-founded clinic, the assistant professorship, the two directorships, the Miami fellowship, the seven years as a practicing male reproductive urologist across Winnipeg, and what emerges is a physician who has spent his entire post-fellowship career building infrastructure as much as treating patients. He is not simply seeing cases. He is helping construct the institutional architecture – a clinic, a research pipeline, a teaching curriculum, and a fellowship program – that can strengthen male reproductive urology in Manitoba for years to come.
For a field that still struggles for visibility inside general urology, that kind of infrastructure-building work rarely gets the recognition surgical outcomes do. It tends to matter more in the long run.
