General Practitioners

• Primary Care
  Some insurance plans require primary care physician approval for any visits to a specialist (including Urology). Under these situations, your primary care physician must provide the patient with a referral form authorizing specialist care. Our office must receive this completed form either before or at the time of your visit. Without this form, you will be required to either reschedule your appointment or sign a waiver accepting all charges for the visit. It is your responsibility to know if your plan has this requirement.
• Male Infertility
• Urinary Incontinence
  While practicing all areas of urology, Dr. Leitner specializes in female urology, urinary incontinence and pelvic prolapse. She has been voted, “Nurses Choice Physician of the Year” at Ocean Medical Center. Dr. Leitner grew up in Ocean Township, and now lives in Ocean County with her husband and their two children.

Gynecologists

• Female Infertility
• Pelvic Pain

Internists

• Urology
  Dr. Leitner graduated from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1995. She then obtained her medical degree at New York Medical College. Subsequently she trained at State University of New York at Brooklyn, completing an internship in General Surgery in 2001 and residency in urology in 2005.
• Kidney Cancer
  “I’m 49 years old, have 4 kids and happily married. When I learned of a lesion in my kidney from various imaging tests, I met Dr. Perlmutter through a referral from another Urologist. Dr. Perlmutter sat with my wife and I and thoroughly explained the procedure, assuring he could remove it robotically. The staff was friendly and very helpful. Dr. Perlmutter was awesome and gave me a packet explaining it all. My surgery was a successful robotic left partial nephrectomy. When I saw Dr. Perlmutter in the hospital, I was at a loss for words and thanked him. At my postoperative follow-up visit, he reviewed the pathology results. It was a rare form of kidney cancer called Tubulocystic Renal Cell Carcinoma. Thanks to prayers from family and church friends, he explained that is a less aggressive form of kidney cancer and that he got it all...I feel great thanks to this wonderful group of nurses and my surgeon. Thanks.”
• Kidney Stones
  “I have been a patient of Dr. Michael Howard since 2000, during which time Dr. Howard has seen me through at least 5 bouts of kidney stones. Due to the nature of my job, I was not permitted to work if there were any kidney stones present in my system. This presented many problems that required special handling and extra assistance above and beyond the normal scope of the Doctor-Patient relationship. Not only did I receive excellent care for the medical conditions that I had, but also for the extra work required to keep me working during these periods. I owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Howard and his staff for their wonderful care and attention to my needs. I would highly recommend Dr. Howard and The Urological Associates to anyone in need of good care.”
• Testicular Cancer
• Interstitial Cystitis
• Prostate Cancer
  Dr. Perlmutter has been actively engaged in both basic science and clinical research. He has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals, has presented at 13 national and international medical and scientific conferences and was an invited guest lecturer for the Department of Urology at SUNY Stony Brook Health Sciences Center. In 2003, Dr. Perlmutter won “Best Research Abstract in the Field of Basic Science” at the American Medical Student Association national convention for his work on prostate cancer.
• Cancer Care
  Dr. Perlmutter manages patients with all urologic conditions. He has special interest in minimally invasive urology, da Vinci© robotic surgery and implantation of prosthetic devices for urology. In 2010, Dr. Perlmutter served on the Robotic Operations Group Committee at Jersey Shore University Medical Center to help establish a robotics program there. Since 2013, Dr. Perlmutter has served as Medical Director of Urologic Oncology for Meridian Cancer Care, part of the Meridian Health System.

Surgeons

• General Surgery
  He graduated in 1987 and went on to medical school at the University of Pittsburgh. During his time in Pittsburgh he helped organize a comprehensive book for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The book explained the diseases the Foundation had encountered. It took complex medical information and simplified the terminology to be understood by non-medical volunteers. This helped Dr. Howard develop the skills to better communicate with his patients. He then continued his training at New York University Medical Center, completing his internship in General Surgery and residency in Urology.
• Vasectomy
• Robotic Surgery
  At Howard, Leitner & Perlmutter Urologic Associates, we provide comprehensive care of all urologic conditions for both men and women. Using the latest techniques and evidence-based practices, we are committed to treating our patients with the highest quality of medical care. We also recognize the potential for technology to improve your healthcare. For example, we offer the latest in surgical techniques including Robotic Surgery and Laparoscopy.
• Laparoscopy
  “A radiologist had reported that a lesion was found on my kidney and it was “suspicious for renal cell carcinoma or other malignancy.” I made an appointment with the Urologist, Dr. Michael Howard, who comes to our retirement community twice a month. Dr. Howard recommended that the lesion be removed using hand-assisted laparoscopy...It was not cancer and he did save much of the kidney to my relief. From my first visit until the post-operative follow-up visit with Dr. Howard, he has been a man of compassion and concern. He spent time answering all of my questions and never hesitated giving me straight answers. As with others in our community upon whom Dr. Howard has operated, we are all in agreement that his experience and knowledge were key to the successful completion of our surgeries. Thank you Dr. Howard.”

Dermatologists

• Cyst