Mark Horowitz, MD

No one has it better than me! Working with children and their families has been my lifetime ambition. What could possibly be better than a hearing children say: “All better” and laughing and playing when just five minutes before they were crying, screaming, and saying: “Owie” or “My boo-boo hurts”? There is nothing more rewarding than a fixed child along with the child’s ecstatic parents. This is what gives me the greatest pleasure in life and it’s what I’ve been doing my entire career.

As a pediatric urologist at NYU Langone Pediatric Urology Associates, I manage all urologic conditions in neonates, infants, adolescents, and teenagers. It’s the sensitive nature of urologic conditions that attracted me to this field and my ability to ask the right questions, find answers, and fix problems that makes it so rewarding. I work with an amazing team of partners, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, sonographers, and front staff who take patient care very seriously and treat patients as if they were their own.

Asking a child to “Give me a high five,” and then slapping myself in the head brings laughter to 99% of my patients and has worked for 30 years. Trying to guess the color of their shoes and continuously and intentionally getting it wrong is another thing I do that allows children to see the silliness in me and makes them feel comfortable.

My journey into pediatric urology began with my training at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, followed by a two-year fellowship in pediatric urology at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. My special interests are in reconstructive surgery, neurogenic bladder, urodynamics, hypospadias, and surgical treatment of vesico-ureteral reflux, upper tract or lower tract obstruction, hernias and undescended testicles. This extensive training laid the foundation for my career and fueled my passion for helping children overcome their health challenges.