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Emily Lukacz, MD

Professor, Division Director Urogynecology
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California, United States

Dr. Emily Lukacz completed her undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University, her medical degree at the University of Michigan, and both her Ob/Gyn residency training and Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery (FPMRS) fellowship training at UC San Diego in 2003. She has been on faculty at UCSD since competing her training and is currently the division director Urogynecology and Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs for UCSD Health Sciences. She serves as chair of the Institutional Review Board at UCSD, and has a Masters in Advanced Studies in Clinical Research from UCSD. Her research expertise spans from survey development, instrument validation, and population-based research on the epidemiology of pelvic floor disorders to clinical trials research networks and transdisciplinary prevention science. She has extensive experience as a co-investigator within several NIH clinical trial networks, including the Pelvic floors Disorders Network (PFDN), the Urinary Incontinence Treatment Network (UITN) and as a sub-investigator for the Interstitial Cystitis Clinical Research Network (ICCRN). She is also PI of the UCSD clinical site for the NIDDK sponsored Prevention of Lower Urinary tract Symptoms (PLUS) consortium. She has been actively involved in protocol development, subject recruitment, administration of study procedures, data collection and in the interpretation and write up of results for many trials within these networks. She also has experience in urinary microbiome research and its relationship to urinary conditions. She has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has been invited as a key opinion leader by professional societies and industry to consult on future directions in prevention and treatment of a variety of pelvic floor disorders. She has served on numerous committees and currently Vice President of AUGS.

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