Dr. Joseph P Antoci, MD

Dr. Antoci is the medical director for the Connecticut Center for Continence. Dr. Antoci is also the principal investigator for all studies that are related to incontinence, and is a sub-investigator for other research studies at the Connecticut Clinical Research Center. He graduated from Manhattan College in the Bronx, New York, then attended Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., where he received his M.D. in May 1977. He served residencies in general surgery and urology at Yale - New Haven Hospital. In 1984 he became a diplomate of the American Board of Urology (board certified).

Dr. Antoci merged with Urology Specialists in 1989 after seven years of solo practice. He has pursued the care and treatment of incontinence and launched the state's first incontinence center.

Dr. Antoci served on the National Association for Continence task force which was instrumental in writing national guidelines for continence care at assisted living facilities. As a recognized …leading expert in the field on incontinence treatment, he was also invited by WOCN (Wound, Ostomy & Continence Nurses) and SUNA (Society of Urological Nursing Association) to testify April of 2000 in Baltimore, before the Medicare Executive Committee meeting. Dr. Antoci testified to the efficacy of pelvic floor stimulation and biofeedback as bona fide treatments for incontinence. As a result, Medicare approved both of those treatment modalities for coverage.