Dr. Bernard H. Bochner

Dr. Bochner is an attending surgeon on the Urology Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a Professor in the Department of Urology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University.   He has served as a Vice Chairman of the Department of Surgery, co-Leader of the urothelial cancer disease management team and past co-Director of the Pelvic and Reconstructive Surgery group at MSKCC.  Currently Dr. Bochner holds the Sir Murray Brennan Endowed Chair in Surgery at MSKCC.  Dr Bochner’s clinical focus in on urologic oncology with a particular interest in urothelial cancer and pelvic reconstructive surgery.    He is a co-PI as part of the MSKCC Bladder Cancer SPORE grant as well as the PI or coPI of several active phase 1-3 clinical trials.  National participation includes numerous committees and task forces including the TCGA project for bladder cancer, the Genitourinary Task Force of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) and AUA/SUO guideline committees.   Dr Bochner is an elected member of the American Surgical Association; the current President elect of the Society of Pelvic Surgeons and a member of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons.