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Joseph Renzulli, MD, FACS

Associate Professor of Urology
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Additional Titles

Chief of Urology at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, Urology, Lawrence + Memorial Hospital

Chief of Urology at Westerly Hospital, Urology, Westerly Hospital

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Titles

Associate Professor of Urology

Positions outside Yale

Chief of Urology at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, Urology, Lawrence + Memorial Hospital; Chief of Urology at Westerly Hospital, Urology, Westerly Hospital

Biography

Dr. Joseph Renzulli offers his patients laparoscopic, robotic, and other minimally invasive techniques for treating urologic cancers, including prostate, kidney, bladder, and testicular cancers. A large focus of his practice is on men’s health, including a special interest in the diagnosis and medical and surgical treatment of prostate cancer. He is actively involved as primary investigator in multiple prostate cancer clinical trials.

Dr. Renzulli received his undergraduate degree Magna Cum Laude in Biology from Boston University, and his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his residency training at Yale School of Medicine before joining The Miriam Hospital and The Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

He is the Eastern Regional Director of Urology for Yale Medicine and Chief of Urology at both Lawrence + Memorial Hospital and Westerly Hospital.

Appointments

  • Urology

    Associate Professor on Term
    Primary

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Education & Training

Chief Resident
Yale School of Medicine (2006)
Resident
Yale School of Medicine (2005)
Internship
Yale School of Medicine (2002)
MD
Boston University School of Medicine (2001)
BA
Boston University, Biology (1997)

Research

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Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Joseph Renzulli's published research.

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Clinical Trials

Clinical Care

Overview

Joseph F. Renzulli II MD, FACS, is a Yale Medicine urologist who has expertise in robotic-assisted and laparoscopic surgeries for treating urologic cancers such as prostate, bladder, and kidney cancer.

“The best part of my job is being able to offer patients cutting-edge surgical therapies right here in their own community,” Dr. Renzulli says, “so that they do not have to travel to distant medical centers and be away from their loved ones during their most stressful times.” For him, medicine is a calling. “Being able to help people in their most vulnerable times is something that I have always seen as an amazing responsibility, and I am privileged to be able to care for them,” he says. After a cancer diagnosis, Dr. Renzulli develops individualized treatment plans for his patients, which may include helping them find and enroll in open clinical trials. He also tries to ease anxiety.

“I tell patients to let me do the worrying for them. I have seen their situation before and can take care of it for them,” he says.

Clinical Specialties

Urology

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Board Certifications

  • Urology

    Certification Organization
    AB of Urology
    Original Certification Date
    2008

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