Why a urologist opened a hormone practice.
Dr. Roscoe Nelson is a board-certified urologist and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons with more than 30 years of experience. He has treated perimenopausal and postmenopausal women since 2009, prescribes testosterone for women and men, and spends much of his week on problems patients were told were nothing.
Peri Health & Hormones is his practice in Draper, Utah: small, private and concierge, built around time with the patient. It opens late 2026.
How hormones became my work.
Hormones run through urology rather than sitting beside it. The adrenal gland, the parathyroid, the hypothalamus, the pituitary and the gonads are all endocrine organs, and a urologist learns that machinery in training. Once you know it, you find it works much the same way in men and in women.
My wife’s perimenopause made it personal. We had trouble finding a doctor who could treat her well, and I was a physician who should have known where to send her.
In my own clinic, women with recurrent infections, painful sex and leakage were being told what she was told: nothing is wrong, or hormones cause cancer. That second answer came from a misread 2002 study, and it kept women from treatment for about twenty years. So I started treating these problems myself. In many of those women, the bladder problem and the hormone problem turned out to be the same problem.
Training.
Board certification is voluntary and has to be maintained. Training varies a lot among people who prescribe hormones and weight medication. It is fair to ask who is treating you.
- Brigham Young University, 1989, valedictorian of his college
- Medical degree, University of California San Diego
- General surgery and urology training, University of California Davis, in a residency with unusually heavy exposure to andrology, male infertility and sexual medicine
- Board-certified urologist, American Board of Urology
- Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
Adding years is the easy part. Staying healthy enough to enjoy them is the actual goal.
Where I am today.
Chief Medical Officer
I serve as Chief Medical Officer of Options Medical Weight Loss, helping shape safe, evidence-based metabolic care at a national level.
Back to direct care
National work reaches a lot of people. It does not replace sitting across from one person, treating them, and watching their life improve. Peri is where I do that.
Why Utah
After about twenty-six years practicing in Arizona, I moved to Utah in 2024 to be closer to my children and grandchildren. Family was the reason. The move also opened the door to this practice.
Outside the office
Husband, father and grandfather. Golf, sports and travel, mostly with family attached.
Know Dr. Nelson as the PeeDoc?
He has written plain-language patient education under that name for more than two decades. The urology library, the articles, the glossary and the free menopause symptom check all live on peedoc.com. Peri is where the care happens.
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