/ Associate Professor of Urology Link to CV Earl Y. Cheng, M.D., is Attending Physician in the Division of Urology at Children's Memorial Hospital and Associate Professor of Urology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Cheng received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Northwestern University. He completed residency training at Northwestern University Medical School where he received the Leader Riba award for outstanding resident. Following residency, he completed a fellowship in pediatric urology at Children’s Memorial Hospital during which he was named a scholar of the American Foundation for Urologic Disease and participated in a physician/scientist training grant from the NIH. After fellowship, he stayed at Northwestern University Medical School and Children’s Memorial Hospital from 1996-1998 as an assistant professor and established a basic science Pediatric Urology Research Laboratory at Children’s Memorial. From 1998-2002 Dr. Cheng was at the Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma and Oklahoma University Medical Center, where he also served as an assistant professor of urology. Dr. Cheng returned to Northwestern and Children’s Memorial Hospital in 2002. His areas of special interest include complex urinary tract reconstruction, surgical management of the neurogenic bladder, genital reconstruction, and laparoscopy. Dr. Cheng is member of numerous societies including the Society for Pediatric Urology, American Academy of Pediatrics, Society of Fetal Urology, and American College of Surgeons. He is the author of over 80 papers, invited articles, and book chapters. Dr. Cheng currently serves or served as a member of the Society of Pediatric Urology Executive Committee, the Executive Committee of the Section of Urology of the American Association of Pediatrics, the Exam Committee of the American Board of Urology, the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Urology, and the Professional Advisory Council of the Spina Bifida Association of America.
Dr. Cheng’s research is in the areas of tissue engineering and bladder physiology. He and Dr. Arun Sharma are investigating different methods of promoting tissue specific regeneration in the urinary tract with an emphasis on bladder regeneration. They additionally collaborate with several Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine (IBNAM) research groups. Dr. Cheng has previously received a R-21 grant from the NIH evaluating the potential use of nanodesigned polymer scaffolds with novel tissue engineering techniques to regenerate bladder tissue.
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