Thomas J. Guzzo MD, MPH
Chief of Urology and Associate Program Director, University of Pennsylvania Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaDr. Guzzo is Chief of Urology and Associate Program Director at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Temple University School of Medicine. He completed his general surgery internship and urology residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Guzzo completed a fellowship at the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in urologic oncology. During his fellowship he also earned a Masters in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is extensively trained in the treatment of all aspects of urologic malignancies including open, laparoscopic, endoscopic and robotic surgical treatment for such malignancies.
Dr. Guzzo’s clinical areas of expertise include the surgical treatment of prostate, bladder, kidney and testicular cancer. He has one of the largest urologic oncology practices in the region and specializes in open, endoscopic and minimally invasive surgical procedures. Additionally, he is a member of the Penn Academy of master clinicians.
Dr. Guzzo also maintains a productive urologic oncology research program. He is a Prostate Cancer Foundation young investigator award recipient. He is the director of the urologic oncology research laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over a dozen book chapters and is the editor of two text books in urology.
Disclosures
No disclosures to report.Recent Contributions to PracticeUpdate:
- Natural History of Surgically Treated High-Risk Prostate Cancer
- Clinical Outcomes of cT1 Micropapillary Bladder Cancer
- Searching for the Optimal BCG Maintenance Regimen
- Evaluation of Reduced-Dose Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Maintenance Therapy
- Multicenter Assessment of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
- Contemporary 90-Day Mortality Rates After Radical Cystectomy in the Elderly
- Leuprolide Plus Abiraterone More Effective in Prostate Cancer Than Abiraterone Alone
- PSA Helps Determine Whether to Treat or Watch After Radical Prostatectomy
- Perioperative Chemotherapy After RC Can Improve Cure Rates in Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder
- 2014 Top Stories in Urology: Bacillus Calmette-Guérin in Non–Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer