Dr. Joseph Chin
1988-2022
Past Program Director: 1989-1996
Past Division Chair: 1993-2005
BIOSKETCH
Dr. Joseph Chin graduated medical school from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine and completed his Urology training at Western University in 1983. He completed a Uro-Oncology Fellowship at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York State and a Renal Transplantation Fellowship at the University of Western Ontario before joining the faculty at Western in 1985 and retired in 2022. Dr. Chin has over 350 publications, mostly in urologic oncology, with over 28,000 citations and h-index of 72. Dr. Chin has been a Canadian leader in robot assisted prostatectomy and image-guided ablative therapies (cryosurgery, High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance-guided transurethral ultrasound ablation) for prostate cancer.
Career Highlights:
- Former Chair of the Division of Urology, Western University
- Past Chair of the Division of Surgical Oncology
- Past Head of the Provincial Surgical Oncology Program for the Southwestern Ontario Region
- Past Chair of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Specialty Committee and Chief Examiner for in Urology
- Forner Chief Examiner for Urology, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
- President, Canadian Urological Association for 2012-2013
- President, American Urological Association, Northeastern Section 2002-2003
- Appointed to the Order of Ontario in 2011 for his contributions to the field of prostate cancer, specifically in prevention and treatment, patient and public education, and in fundraising for research
- Received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of community services in the area of prostate cancer in 2012
Career Specialty:
Uro-Oncology
Research Interests:
Prostate cancer management, including minimally invasive and alternative forms of management
