Rena Xu | Medical Services
Specialties
- Acute Kidney Injury
- Circumcision
- Duplex Collecting System
- Hematuria
- Horseshoe Kidney
- Hydrocele
- Hydronephrosis
- Hypospadias
- Inguinal Hernia
- Megaureter
- Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney
- Nephrectomy
- Phimosis and Paraphimosis
- Posterior Urethral Valves
- Testicular Torsion
- Torsion of the Appendix Testis
- UTI
- Ureterocele
- Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction
- Varicocele
- Vesicoureteral Reflux (VUR)
Programs & Services
Rena Xu | Education
Undergraduate School
Harvard College
2007, Cambridge, MA
Graduate School
Harvard Business School
2014, Boston, MA
Medical School
Harvard Medical School
2014, Boston, MA
Internship
Department of Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
2015, Boston, MA
Residency
Department of Urology
Massachusetts General Hospital
2019, Boston, MA
Fellowship
Department of Urology
Boston Children's Hospital
2022, Boston, MA
Rena Xu | Professional History
Dr. Rena Xu is the Advisor to Health Affairs at Boston Children's Hospital and an Affiliate Faculty Member in the BCH Computational Health Informatics Program. She earned her MD degree from Harvard Medical School and her MBA degree from Harvard Business School. She completed residency training in urology at Massachusetts General Hospital and fellowship training in pediatric urology at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Xu is a former Blavatnik Fellow in Life Science Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. She has written about health care for the New England Journal of Medicine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post, among other publications. Dr. Xu’s research focuses on characterizing and improving patient care pathways and advancing health equity.