Joel Sheinfeld MD

Dr. Joel Sheinfeld, the Florence & Theodore Baumritter/ Enid Ancell Chair in Urologic Oncology, has served as Vice-Chairman/ Deputy Chief of Urology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) for the past 20 years, and Director of the Urology Fellowship since 1994. He is a professor of Urology at Weill Medical College of Medicine, Cornell University, and an Adjunct Professor of Urology in the Department of Urology SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

Dr. Sheinfeld was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Florida College of Medicine. He completed his Urology residency at the University of Rochester in 1986 and his Urologic Oncology Fellowship at MSKCC in 1989.

Dr. Sheinfeld specializes in the management of patients with genitourinary cancers with particular expertise in the clinical care of patients with testicular cancer. He has performed approximately 2,500 RPLNDs over the past 30 years, currently doing about 100/year. He has authored or co-authored over 300 papers and/or chapters, editorials, on testicular cancer, and has spoken frequently on the topic, at national and international meetings. As an established leader in testicular cancer, he has edited special editions on this disease in Urologic Clinics of North America, World Journal of Urology, British Journal of Urology, Urologic Oncology, and Seminars in Urologic Oncology. He has authored or co-authored the chapter on surgical management of testicular cancer in the major texbooks of urology ( Campbell’s Urology, 8th-10th editions) and oncology (deVita’s Principles and Practice of Oncology, 5th-9th editions). He served as faculty director for the AUA course on testicular cancer for 20 years.

Dr. Sheinfeld is a member of the GU Surgeons (AAGUS), was an AUA Scholar, has had numerous Visiting Professorships nationally and internationally and received the AUA Distinguished Contribution Award.