Kristin Kozakowski
As a fellowship-trained pediatric urologist, Kristin Kozakowski, M.D., performs numerous urogenital surgical procedures in children and adolescents, including surgical correction of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR), bladder reconstruction, penile reconstruction, kidney reconstruction, and groin surgery, including hernia, hydrocele, undescended testicle, and varicocele repair. Board eligible in urology and pediatric urology, she practices in Miami, Florida. Kristin Kozakowski, M.D., has researched adolescent varicoceles, VUR, and several other areas of study, including ureteropelvic-junction obstruction, children’s immune systems, kidney and urinary-tract congenital anomalies, and surgeons’ attitudes toward different surgical approaches to kidney reconstruction. She also contributed to published articles on the treatment of kidney stones and to several book chapters.
Kristin Kozakowski, M.D., has delivered presentations to The New York Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Urological Association, and the Sexual Medicine Society of North America, Inc. In 2010, she presented two papers at the 1st World Congress of Pediatric Urology, including “Surgeons’ Attitudes Toward a Potential Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial of Open vs. Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty: Results of a Survey of Pediatric Urologists.”
At Georgetown University, Kristin Kozakowski, M.D., received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and graduated summa cum laude. A member of The Phi Beta Kappa Society and honor society Alpha Sigma Nu, she also garnered the Philosophy Medal of Honor. Dr. Kristin Kozakowski earned her Doctor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she served as Ethics Club and Class President and sat on the Dean’s Advisory Committee.
In specialty training, Kristin Kozakowski, M.D., completed an internship in general surgery and a residency in urology at Columbia University Medical Center and Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian. Kristin Kozakowski, M.D., completed a clinical/research fellowship in pediatric urology in Ontario, Canada, at The Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto in 2010.