Robert G UzzoRobert G. Uzzo, MD, FACS, is currently the G. Willing "Wing" Pepper Chair in Cancer Research. He is a professor and chairman at the Department of Surgery at Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple University School of Medicine. Dr. Uzzo graduated Summa Cu Laude from Union College prior to attending Cornell University Medical College. He completed two years of general surgical training at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center under the tutelage of G. Thomas Shires, MD. Dr. Uzzo went on to complete four years of urologic surgical training at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center under the guidance of E. Darracott Vaughan, MD. He then became an American Foundation for Urological Diseases (now the American Urological Association Foundation) Scholar in Urological Oncology at the Cleveland Clinic under the direction of Andrew C. Novick, MD. Dr. Uzzo completed a second fellowship in Renal Vascular Surgery and Transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He has an active and funded lab researching the basic mechanisms of kidney and prostate cancer. His clinical interests are in minimally invasive urological oncology. He is the national urology principal investigator for the E.C.O.G. 2805 (A.S.S.U.R.E.) trial and is the co-chair of the genitourinary early management committee at E.C.O.G. Dr. Uzzo is a member of the American Urologic Association, a fellow in the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Association of Cancer Research, the Society for Basic Urological Research, the Society of Urological Oncology, and also on the medical advisory board for the Kidney Cancer Association. He has authored more than 300 peer reviewed articles and chapters in urology and urologic oncology and has been the recipient of numerous awards. Read More Read Less