John Kowalczyk

John Kowalczyk, DO, FACOS is a Los Angeles-based urologist and founder of the Urology Group of Southern California where he specializes in prostate cancer, male impotence, incontinence and urodynamics as well as gender dysphoria and gender confirmation surgery. Dr. Kowalczyk became a fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons in 1999 and served as president of the Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of California in 2016. He has been a California delegate to the American Osteopathic Association House of Delegates every year from 2010 to 2020 and has been an expert reviewer for the Osteopathic Medical Board of California since 2010. Dr. Kowalczyk serves on the board of the Physician’s Aid Association (2013-Present), the Good Samaritan IPA (2011-Present), and the Medical Executive Committee of Good Samaritan Hospital (2003 to Present). While on staff at Good Samaritan Hospital, he has served as the chair of their Patient Safety Committee since 2009, and was a member of the Clinical Practices Committee from 2005 to 2012, the Urology Department from 2002 to 2016, and the Interdisciplinary Practice Committee in 2004. He is a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Touro University and Western University, as well as clerkship director for the Surgery Department of St. George’s University School of Medicine. He received his Doctor of Osteopathy from Midwestern University, completed his internship and residencies at Chicago Osteopathic Hospital and Olympia Fields Osteopathic Medical & Trauma Center, and received his Fellowship training in uroprosthetics at Indiana University. Dr. Kowalczyk has been a CAP member since 2005 and has served on the CAP and MPT Audit and Finance Committees since 2020.