Biography

Jonathan Shoag, MD is a urologist at University Hospitals and an assistant professor of urology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is also a member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and an adjunct clinical professor of urology at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Shoag specializes in the care of patients with prostate, bladder, kidney and testicular cancer. Dr. Shoag is the recipient of a Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Award, an American Urological Association Research Scholar Award, a Vinney Scholars Award and an NIH R21 grant. He is a co-investigator on a national PCORI grant and the Cleveland African American Prostate Cancer Project. His work thus far has yielded first author publication in journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Oncology, JCI and JCO. His current work is focused on using large data to better diagnose, treat and understand the biology of prostate cancer. Dr. Shoag was born and raised in the greater Cleveland area. He earned his undergraduate degree in biology at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He then went on to Harvard Medical School, where he was in the Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) program and graduated magna cum laude. He completed his general surgery internship, urology residency and urologic oncology fellowship at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell during which time he earned his master's degree and served as an Instructor in urology.

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