Kai Hans Hammerich, MD

Dr. Hammerich is a board-certified urologist who has been in practice since 2009.

In 2004, Dr. Hammerich received his medical degrees with honors from the University of Hamburg, Germany.

After completing a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in The Prostate Cancer Research Lab at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, Dr. Hammerich went to the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, MA, where he finished his Urology Residency in 2015.

Following this, Dr. Hammerich joined the Urologic Oncology Branch of the Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he accomplished a two-year clinical fellowship in Urologic Oncology, with a focus on robotic surgeries of complex urologic malignancies.

From 2017 until 2024, Dr. Hammerich was functioning as a Medical Director of Urology at an institution in central Connecticut. Besides providing compassionate care to patients in General Urology, one of Dr. Hammerich's clinical interests are organ and functional preservation during oncologic procedures, performing surgical techniques such as partial nephrectomy for kidney cancer and nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy.

Dr. Hammerich has engaged in extensive clinical and basic research in prostate cancer, localized or metastatic/progressive disease, the identification of diagnostic tools and techniques, and the development of novel multimodal treatment strategies. He is widelypublished in the field of urology and oncology, and he has been a visiting professor in Germany, United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

Dr. Hammerich is married and has 4 children.