Dr. Vijaya Vemulakonda is an Associate Professor of Pediatric Urology, Director of Urologic Research,  and Associate Residency Program Director for the Division of Urology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She earned her law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School and her medical degree from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. She completed her urology residency at Baylor College of Medicine and her pediatric fellowship at Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington School of Medicine. She is also a graduate of the Clinical Faculty Scholars Program at the University of Colorado. She is active in the American Urological Association, serving on the Board of Directors for the South Central Section, as well as on the Executive Committee for the Society for Fetal Urology.

Her clinical interests include the management of antenatally detected congenital urologic anomalies, including UPJ obstruction, vesicoureteral reflux, posterior urethral valves, and cloacal and bladder exstrophy variants. Her research focuses on the development of evidence based guidelines to optimize surgical outcomes in children with congenital urologic anomalies and the use of the electronic health record to facilitate prospective multi-center collaborative surgical research. Current funding includes a K08 Career Development Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality studying variations in care for infants with suspected UPJ obstruction. She is also the first pediatric urologist recipient of the American Urological Association’s Rising Stars in Urology Research Award, funded by the Frank and Marion Hinman Urology Research Fund.