Timothy J. Daskivich MD, MSHPM

Timothy J. Daskivich is Assistant Professor of Urology and Director of Health Services Research for the Department of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He graduated magna cum laude in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College in 2001 and earned his MD from Harvard Medical School in 2006. He then completed residency in Urology at UCLA in 2012 and did a combined health services research and urologic oncology fellowship with the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and Institute of Urologic Oncology at UCLA. He has research interests in: comorbidity assessment and its role in treatment decision making for men with urologic cancer; physician online ratings; and applications of wearable technology into the clinical setting. He has published his work in Annals of Internal Medicine, Cancer, and the Journal of Urology, and his work has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and American Urological Association. He received the AUA Rising Stars in Urologic Research award in 2018.