Career
Vogelzang joined Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada in 2009 as a medical oncologist and serves as chair and medical director of the Developmental Therapeutic Committee and co-chair of the Genitourinary and Research Executive Committees for US Oncology Research. Since 2004, he has been Head of the Genitourinary Oncology and Clinical Professor of Medicine for the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada.
He served as Director, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor at Nevada Cancer Institute (NVCI) from 2004 to 2009.
During his tenure at the University of Chicago, he served as Professor of Medicine and Surgery (Urology) (1993 to 2003), Director for the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center (1999–2003), and was named the first Fred C. Buffett Professor in Medicine and Chair in Genitourinary Oncology (1999–2003).
Vogelzang received his M.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1974. He completed his internship, residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, followed by his fellowship in medical oncology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Vogelzang became the first editor of the Textbook of Genitourinary Oncology and remains the lead editor today.
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