Elward David Crawford MD

E. David Crawford, MD, is a board-certified urologist who has devoted his career in medicine to educating the public about men's health issues and finding effective techniques and procedures to address prostate cancer, the most common malignancy affecting men in the United States. Dr. Crawford is an internationally recognized expert in benign prostate hypertrophy, urologic cancers, and in particular, prostate cancer.

As a professor in the Department of Urology, he instructs medical students, residents, and fellows at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Crawford has conducted research in the treatment of advanced bladder cancer, metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate, hormone-refractory prostate cancer, and other areas of urological infections and malignancies. He has authored or coauthored over 810 scientific articles, published seven textbooks, authored over 60 book chapters, and provided more than 2,200 educational talks for patients and physicians. He has served as editor-in-chief of Grand Rounds in Urology since June of 2019.

He is an active member of many national and international organizations, including the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Urological Association (AUA), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Within the AUA, he has been a member of the Committee to Study Urologic Research Funding and the prostate cancer clinical trials subcommittee. Dr. Crawford served on the board of governors, the scientific advisory board of the Southwest Oncology Group, and served as chairman of the Genitourinary Cancer Committee for 27 years.

Dr. Crawford completed a fellowship in genitourinary cancer at UC Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine and a residency in urology at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati. He earned his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Crawford is board-certified in urology.