Eric A. Klein, MD is the Andrew C. Novick Distinguished Chair of  the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute and Professor of Surgery in the Lerner College of Medicine of the Cleveland Clinic. Following undergraduate training at Johns Hopkins University, he was a cum laude graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He subsequently completed residency training in Urology at the Cleveland Clinic and a fellowship in Urologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He joined the staff of the Cleveland Clinic in 1989 and currently serves as a member of the Department of Cancer Biology of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, the Taussig Cancer Institute, and the Genitourinary Malignancies Program in the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Dr. Klein is a member of numerous professional societies and scientific advisory boards including the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons, the Clinical Society of Genitourinary Surgeons, the Society of Urologic Oncology, the Society of Pelvic Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Urological Association and the Prostate Cancer Foundation’s Global Research Council. He served as President of the Society of Urologic Oncology from 2009 - 2011.

Dr. Klein’s clinical and research interests cover all stages of prostate cancer with a focus on genomics and c