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I attended medical school at St. Louis University (graduated 1977), followed by surgery residency at Rush Medical College and the University of Chicago (graduated 1982), a fellowship in surgical oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (graduated 1984), PhD in tumor immunology, University of Texas (graduated 1990). I was invited to join the Department of Surgery at MD Anderson in 1984 where I was invited to become the chairman of this department in 1996 and remained at MD Anderson until 2013. I was recruited to The Ohio State University in 2013, promoted to Surgeon-in-Chief for the OSU medical center which includes seven hospitals. In 2017 I was offered the opportunity to become the Director of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center whose membership of more than 300 cancer researchers is drawn from 12 of the 15 OSU colleges. I have maintained a cancer research laboratory since 1984 in which we investigate the molecular biology of sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that is also the focus of my surgical practice. Three of my five children are students at OSU, including a daughter who is a third year medical student, another daughter who applying to medical school, and a son who is an undergraduate student. Dina Lev, MD, my wife who was also a cancer surgeon and cancer researcher, died unexpectedly in August, 2020.
