Faculty

Dr. Isaac Yi Kim is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at Yale School of Medicine. He earned his BA in Biochemistry from UC Berkeley and his MD/PhD from Northwestern University, Chicago. Dr. Kim completed urology residency at Baylor College of Medicine, followed by a one-year urologic oncology research fellowship at the National Cancer Institute. He then trained as a fellow in Laparoscopy and Robotics with Dr. Ralph V. Clayman at UC Irvine. In 2005, he became a faculty member at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. In 2021, he was recruited to Yale to lead the Department of Urology. He is an expert in minimally invasive robotic surgery. His research focuses on the tumor microenvironment and androgen signaling in prostate cancer, as well as racial disparities and the role of surgery in advanced and metastatic prostate cancer.