Julie Lang

Dr. Julie Lang is Professor of Surgery, Chief of Breast Surgery at Hillcrest Hospital, and Director of the Eastern Region Breast Program of Cleveland Clinic. She is a fellowship-trained breast surgical oncologist and physician-scientist who also leads a clinical-translational research program in Cancer Biology at the Lerner Research Institute. She completed her fellowship in breast surgical oncology in 2007 after completing a general surgery residency at the University of California, San Francisco, in 2006. She joined Cleveland Clinic in 2021 after serving in academic positions at the University of Arizona Cancer Center (Tucson, AZ) and the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA). She is an active member of the Society of Surgical Oncology, the American Society of Breast Surgeons, and the American Association of Cancer Research. She serves on the Komen Inflammatory Breast Cancer Biology Task Force and as an ad hoc NIH grant reviewer. She has published over 90 publications in the field of breast cancer research with expertise in biomarkers and clinical trials.