Dr. Kirsch earned his medical degree from SUNY Health Science Center in New York, where he received two NIH Research Fellowship Awards and was inducted into Sigma Xi Research Society. In 2006, he was honored by his medical school as the Master Teacher in Urology.
He completed both a residency in general surgery and urology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He then completed his fellowship in pediatric urology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he was an American Foundation for Urological Diseases Scholar.
Dr. Kirsch is a past president of the Society for Fetal Urology, and is a member of the American Urological Association (AUA), American Association of Pediatric Urologists (AAPU), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and Society of Pediatric Urology (SPU). He has written extensively in the field of pediatric urology, with emphasis on vesicoureteral reflux, cryptorchidism, and magnetic resonance urography, publishing over 200 journal articles and book chapters.
Dr. Kirsch has invented a surgical device and developed an endoscopic technique to correct urinary reflux in children that has become the standard of care for children worldwide. He has personally trained over 200 physicians on the procedure worldwide, and has lectured throughout North America, South America, and Europe.
He has served on the advisory committee to the American Board of Urology and was sub-specialty editor of the Journal of Urology. He also serves as a reviewer for The Journal of Urology, Urology, Journal of Pediatric Urology, and Pediatrics. He also serves as the membership liaison to the Section of Urology of the American Academy of Pediatrics and has co-directed courses on fetal hydronephrosis and urinary tract infection at the AAP. He has served on the executive committee of the AAP Section of Urology.
Currently, Dr. Kirsch is clinical professor and chief of pediatric urology at Emory University School of Medicine and a partner at Georgia Urology. He is on staff at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta where he serves on the Clinical Operations Committee, Clinical Research Oversight Committee, and Operative Services Peer Review Subcommittee.
View Dr. Kirsch's CV.
Specialties
Complex Urinary Tract Disorders including:
Location
Meridian Mark Pediatrics
5445 Meridian Mark Road
Suite 420
Atlanta, Georgia 30342
404-252-5206
News and Media
Dr. Kirsch will be speaking as a Visiting Professor at the Society for Government Service Urologist (SGSU) 60th Annual James C. Kimbrough Urological Seminar, January 20-25, 2013 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Dr. Kirsch has been named to The Best Doctors in America list. The list represents the top 5% of doctors in the country and is used to connect patients and physicians across the country with medical expertise for specific conditions.
Dr. Kirsch was recently awarded a grant from Children's Center for Pediatric Healthcare Technology Innovation Pilot Grant Program for "Wireless Sensing for Monitoring Enuresis in Children".
Click here to read "To Refer or Not To Refer: Managing Febrile UTI in Children", a CME program in which Dr. Kirsch participated.
See Dr. Kirsch's article titled "AAP UTI guidelines: Where standardization meets individualized care" on page 3 of this newsletter.