Izak Faiena, MD, MSCR

Izak Faiena MD, MSCR, is an assistant professor of clinical urology and a urologic oncologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, NY. Dr. Faiena specializes in prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment as well as in other urologic cancers. Dr. Faiena earned his MD, with Alpha Omega Alpha honors, from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. He then completed his urology residency at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey, where he received multiple research awards for his work in prostate and bladder cancer. After residency, he completed a fellowship in urologic oncology and earned a master of science in clinical research (MSCR) at the University of California, Los Angeles Institute of Urologic Oncology and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, where he obtained significant research funding and conducted and published on clinical trials in urologic cancers. Dr. Faiena's current work focuses on developing and conducting clinical trials in prostate cancer in localized and advanced disease, and his research has been published in leading national and international medical journals.