Meet the Doctors
Christopher Steidle, M.D., attended Tulane University and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. degree in 
Parasitology. He received his M.D. degree in 1983 from the University of Virginia School of Medicine where he gained extensive research experience, including studies conducted through the National Institutes of Health. In 1989, he completed his general surgical training in urology at Indiana University Hospital where he had become chief resident. He has served as a visiting scientist at Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, Indiana, where his work centered on the pharmacologic receptor identification in the genitourinary tissues of various species, with special emphasis on the identification of serotonin receptor sub-types.
Currently, Chris works at Northeast Indiana Urology in Fort Wayne, Indiana and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Urology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He has been actively involved in clinical research since 1989 specializing in male and female sexual dysfunction as well as urinary incontinence, prostate cancer and infectious diseases. He is the author of two books, The Impotence Sourcebookand testosterone: a user’s manual.
Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Dr. Weise and his family relocated to West Germany where he received his MD degree. As part of his medical training, he was able to stay current with the US healthcare system by participating in a variety of externships and rotations. He began his urologic career with a two-year World Authority Fellowship in bladder cancer at the University of Berne in Switzerland. He then completed his surgical internship at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. He next completed a urologic residency at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Following his residency, he had two separate fellowships, the first in urologic oncology at the University of Washington in Seattle and the second as an endourology robotic surgery fellow at the University of Iowa. He is the only fellowship-trained robotic urologic surgeon in Indiana.
Dr. Weise holds memberships in the American Urologic Association, the Society of Urologic Oncology and the Endourology Society. He currently practices at Northeast Indiana Urology, PC in Fort Wayne, Indiana where he provides state-of-the-art care for patients with urologic cancer using minimally invasive techniques whenever possible and appropriate. He has a particular interest in the surgical treatment of prostate and kidney cancer using robotic and laparoscopic techniques.
