Isaac Y. Kim, MD, PhD, MBA, has been appointed Professor of Urology, Chair of the Department of Urology at Yale School of Medicine, and Chief of Urology at Yale New Haven Hospital. Dr. Kim will care for patients at the Yale Physicians Building, Saint Raphael Campus, Smilow Cancer Hospital, and Greenwich Hospital.
A urologic oncologist and surgeon, Dr. Kim specializes in the treatment, management, and prevention of prostate cancer, with the goal of helping patients navigate and better understand their disease. He has expertise in minimally invasive robotic surgery and has completed more than 2,100 robotic surgeries for prostate cancer. Dr. Kim’s surgical focus has been on advanced and metastatic prostate cancer, as well as recurrent disease after radiation.
Dr. Kim’s clinical research is focused on mechanisms of treatment resistance and specifically immunosuppressive factors produced by prostate cancer cells. He also has a strong interest in inflammation in prostate cancer and the role of surgery in men with advanced or metastatic prostate cancer.
Dr. Kim joins Yale Urology from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. He completed his residency in urology at Baylor College of Medicine, and a research fellowship in urologic oncology at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as a clinical fellowship in laparoscopy, endourology, and robotics at University of California, Irvine. Dr. Kim also received his doctorate in tumor cell biology at Northwestern University Graduate School, and his MBA in finance at the University of Pennsylvania.
Appointments:
877-925-3637
Email:
Isaac.Kim@yale.edu
Locations:
Yale Physicians Building
800 Howard Avenue, 3rd Floor
New Haven, CT 06510
Yale New Haven Hospital
Saint Raphael Campus
330 Orchard Street, Suite 164
New Haven, CT 06511
Greenwich Hospital
55 Holly Hill Lane, Suite 240
Greenwich, CT 06830