Eric Kurzrock MD, FAAP

Eric A. Kurzrock, MD, FAAP Dr. Eric Kurzrock is a professor of Urology at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento. He is the chief of pediatric urologic surgery at the UC Davis Children’s Hospital and Shriners Hospital for Children – Northern California. Dr. Kurzrock graduated from UC Berkeley with, a biochemistry, then from UCLA School of Medicine. He completed general surgery and urology training at USC and then a pediatric fellowship at UCSF.

Dr. Kurzrock is the director of the urologic stem cell laboratory at the UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures. He has received funding from Shriners Hospital, CIRM, and NIH. His laboratory was the first to identify and characterize adult urothelial stem cells and also the first to induce human embryonic stem cells and iPS cells into urothelium. He also investigates bladder bioengineering and is currently funded to evaluate angiogenesis in tissue engineering models. Dr. Kurzrock has also written extensively on pediatric urologic outcomes.

Dr. Kurzrock currently chairs, Clinical Quality Improvement for the department, and serves on the Quality Safety Operations Committee, Children’s Surgery Performance Improvement and Patient Safety Committee, Electronic Medical Record Faculty Committee, and the Practice Management Board Finance Committee. He is a past member of the Society of Pediatric Urology executive committee and is currently a member of the Journal of Urology editorial committee.