Having instructed more than 30 fellows, visiting students, residents, and physicians, Dr. Hellstrom practices as a urologist at Tulane Medical Center, University Medical Center, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center (New Orleans), where he specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunction, including Peyronie’s disease, surgical and vascular reconstruction, prosthetic surgery, male infertility (both surgical and medical therapies), BPH, and urethral stricture disease.
A member of numerous professional societies, he is the former President of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA), the American Society of Andrology (ASA), and the International Society of Sexual Medicine (ISSM). An Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Urology, Asian Journal of Andrology, and Translational Andrology and Urology, as well as a reviewer for numerous journals, he has authored or coauthored over 100 book chapters and more than 550 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. The editor of several textbooks in the field of andrology, including Male Infertility and Sexual Dysfunction (1997), Handbook of Sexual Dysfunction (1999), Androgen Deficiency and Testosterone Replacement (2013), and Bioenvironmental Issues Affecting Men’s Reproductive and Sexual Health (2017), he has delivered numerous presentations locally, nationally, and internationally on various topics in male sexual dysfunction and male infertility.