Doctor. Joseph D. Brenna

Dr. Joseph D. Brenna, surgeon at St. Francis.
Office located at 448 Hamilton Avenue, The Burg.
Born in Chambersburg , he was a lifelong Trenton area resident.
He was a World War II veteran and served in the Army Medical
Corps as a captain from 1945 until 1947.
Dr. Brenna graduated from Trenton Central High School, received
a bachelor's degree in biology from Duke University in 1941 and
received a doctor of medicine degree from Duke University in
1944 through an accelerated wartime study program.
Dr. Brenna served his first internship at Orange Memorial
Hospital, West Orange, from 1944-1945, and was a resident in
surgery at St. Francis Medical Center from 1947 to 1953. He
attended the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of
Medicine from 1952 to 1953 and was a surgical resident at
Western Pa. Hospital, Pittsburgh, from 1953 to 1955.

He was a general practitioner in Trenton for four years
until 1952, when he began his practice in general surgery.
He was an attending surgeon at St. Francis Medical Center
and was engaged in the practice of surgery in Trenton for
37 years until his retirement in 1989.
He was director of surgery at St. Francis Medical Center
from 1968 to 1970 and served as president of the hospital's
medical staff from 1987 to 1988. He was a surgical consultant
to the New Jersey Department of Corrections from 1963 to 1978.
Following his retirement from surgical practice, he was medical
director for the New Brunswick-based Aetna Health Plans, from
1990 through 1994.
Dr. Brenna was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons,
a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and an associate
clinical professor of surgery at Hahnemann Medical College.