Dr. Christopher Kane

Christopher J. Kane, MD, is a board-certified urologist specializing in diagnosing and treating prostate, kidney, bladder, and testicular cancer patients. He has extensive expertise in robotic prostatectomy, open and laparoscopic kidney cancer surgery, and bladder and testes cancer surgery. He also provides care for conditions including benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) or enlarged prostate; elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels; and the presence of blood in urine (hematuria).




Dr. Kane serves as senior assistant vice chancellor of clinical affairs at UC San Diego Health Sciences and chief executive officer for UC San Diego Health Physician Group. In these dual roles, Dr. Kane collaborates with UC San Diego leadership to ensure that UC San Diego Health Physician Group achieves the highest standards of service, access, quality, safety, and patient satisfaction and is integrated to support the unique and growing needs of an expanding academic health system and its growing regional network of providers.




Dr. Kane has authored more than 320 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters focusing on prostate cancer risk factors and outcomes, prostate cancer surgery and minimally invasive surgery for prostate and kidney cancer. He serves on the editorial boards of several major urology journals and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Prostate Cancer Management Guidelines Committee. He co-chaired the National Cancer Institute's Renal Cell Carcinoma Advisory Task Force from 2012-2016. He is currently president of the American Urological Association.




Before joining UC San Diego Health, Dr. Kane held leadership positions at UC San Francisco and the Naval Medical Center in San Diego. He was awarded the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal by UC Davis in 2011. In 2014, he was elected to membership in the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons. He is a retired Navy Captain and a decorated veteran of Desert Storm. Dr. Kane completed his residency at the Naval Medical Center in Oakland, Calif. He received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Kane is board certified in urology.