Kenneth Pace MD, MSc, FRCSC

Dr. Pace graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 1994. He completed his urology residency in Toronto in 1999 and then completed a Masters degree in Health Research Methodology at McMaster University and a 3-year fellowship in minimally-invasive surgery in 2002.

He joined St. Michael’s Hospital and the faculty of medicine at the University of Toronto in 2002. His practice focuses on laparoscopic and robotic-assisted surgery, the treatment of kidney stones, and kidney transplantation. He performed the first robotic-assisted prostatectomy in Toronto in March 2007 and has an active practice in robotic-assisted surgery for both prostate and kidney cancer. He has been a leader in minimally-invasive (or laparoscopic) surgery since starting his practice and has been invited as a lecturer across Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

Dr. Pace is the head of the division of urology at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He also serves as co-director of the University of Toronto fellowship program in Urologic Laparoscopy and Endourology, as the University of Toronto Division of Urology Clinical Fellowship Coordinator, as immediate past-president of the Canadian Endourology Group, as the Treasurer of the Northeast Section of the American Urological Association, as Chair and Treasurer of the Canadian Urological Association Scholarship Foundation, and as the immediate Past-President of the Medical Staff Association at St. Michael’s Hospital. He is co-chairman of the 2017 meeting of the World Congress of Endourology, to be held in Vancouver.