Dr. Mechlin was born and raised in Columbia, Missouri. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia with Honors in Biology. After obtaining a Master’s of Science in Anatomy at Saint Louis University, Dr. Mechlin received his medical degree from Saint Louis University in 2007. Following his general surgery internship and urologic residency at Albany Medical College in New York, He went on to complete a fellowship in Andrology and Male Reconstructive Surgery at Albany Medical Center and the Stratton VA Medical Center in New York. Dr. Mechlin is a member of the American Urological Association and the Sexual Medicine Society of North America. He has held previous academic appointments at Albany Medical College as a clinical instructor in urology where he supervised resident training at Albany Medical Center and at the Stratton VA Medical Center in New York. He has conducted clinical and basic science research on the medical treatment of male hypogonadism (low testosterone), bladder cancer, urethral stricture disease, and erectile dysfunction.