Patricia & Rodes Hart Chair of Urologic Surgery, Chief Surgical Officer, Vanderb
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Sam S. Chang, MD, MBA, Patricia and Rodes Hart Endowed Professor of Urologic Surgery serves as the Chief Surgical Officer at Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Chang, a graduate of Princeton University and Vanderbilt University Medical School, and Business School completed his uro-oncology fellowship as Chief Fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Dr. Chang has served as Chairman of the SUO Panel on Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer, the chair of the American Joint Committee on Cancer GU Staging Task Force, the Facilitator and Vice-Chair of the Renal Malignancy Follow-Up AUA Guidelines Panel, the Chair of the AUA/ASCO/ASTRO/SUO Guidelines on Nonmetastic Invasive Bladder Cancer and AUA/SUO Guidelines on Nonmuscle invasive Bladder Cancer, and the Chairman of the AUA Prostate Cancer Core Curriculum Committee. He is a current member of the NCCN Bladder Cancer Panel and is Editor in Chief of the American Board of Urology Examination committee. In addition, in the past he was named an AUA-EAU Academic Exchange Fellow. While maintaining a busy clinical surgical practice, Dr. Chang has authored more than 300 original publications, multiple book chapters and edited several textbooks. For his academic efforts, he received the SUO’s first-ever Distinguished Service Award, a CaPCURE Young Investigator Award, and has been named multiple times Journal of Urology’s Best Reviewer. Dr. Chang was named as the 2011 recipient of the American Urologic Association Gold Cystoscope Award and recently completed a term as a nominated Fellow of the Nashville Health Care Council. He was elected Treasurer of the Society of Urologic Oncology in 2022.
For the AUA, he currently serves (2018-2022) as Assistant Secretary, (2020-2021) Chair of the Public Media Committee, (2021-2025) member of the Practice Guidelines Committee, (2020-2022) member of the Update to the Renal Mass Guidelines Panel, and (2020-2022) member of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force.
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