Jessica Schardein, MD, is a visiting instructor at University of Utah Health completing a two-year andrology fellowship. She specializes in sexual medicine and infertility. Her clinical interests include male, female and transgender sexual dysfunction, men’s health, hypogonadism, and male infertility.
She completed her bachelors in pharmaceutical sciences at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. She then completed her masters in marriage and family therapy at University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Following medical school at Rush Medical College, she pursued a urology residency at SUNY Upstate Medical University.
Dr. Schardein has been awarded two grants in 2022 to study Peyronie’s disease and erectile dysfunction. Specifically, she received the AUA Urology Care Foundation Research Scholar Award supported by SMSNA to evaluate the epigenetic profiles of men with Peyronie’s Disease. She received the SMSNA Research Fellowship in Andrology grant supported by endo for the mechanistic investigation of the role of ALCAM in erectile dysfunction.
Dr. Schardein's Research Interests include:
• Erectile dysfunction
• Peyronie’s disease
• Male infertility
• Gender affirming surgery
• Patient decision making
Dr. Schardein spends most of her free time with her husband and two kids. She enjoys traveling, hiking, and photography.
