Joseph R. Wagner, MD

Surgeon

Joseph R. Wagner, MD
Urology / General Urology,
a graduate of Amherst College, obtained his medical degree from the University of Connecticut and completed his surgical and urologic residencies at Boston University.

Following his residency, Dr. Wagner completed a fellowship in urologic oncology at the National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD where he received his minimally invasive training. Before joining Connecticut Surgical Group, Dr. Wagner was the Physician In Charge of Urologic Oncology at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.

Board certified, Dr. Wagner has numerous publications and has received awards from the American College of Surgeons, the Countway Urological Society, Castle and Connelly Best of New York, New York's Our Town Newspaper, and New York Magazine.

Steven J. Shichman, MD

Surgeon

Steven J. Shichman, MD
Urology / General Urology

Vincent P. Laudone, MD

Surgeon

Vincent P. Laudone, MD
Urology / General Urology
Dr. Vincent Laudone received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and his medical degree from Georgetown University. He completed his surgical and urologic training at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Following this, he spent two years at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York working as both a research and clinical fellow. His research efforts focused on both bladder and prostate cancer. During this time he was also appointed as an American Cancer Society Fellow.

Since leaving New York he has spent the past 15 years at Hartford Hospital where he limits his practice exclusively to the care of patients with urologic cancers. He has performed more than one thousand prostatectomies in addition to operating on and caring for patients with bladder, kidney, and testicular cancer.