Steven Campbell MD, PhD

Steven Campbell, MD, PhD, is the Chairman and Professor of Urology at West Virginia University. He came to WVU from the Cleveland Clinic, where he served as a board-certified urologist, vice chair of Urology, residency program director, and professor of Surgery. For the past 20 years, he has led the largest urology residency training program in the United States and has been central to the Urologic Oncology Fellowship Program.

Dr. Campbell’s primary interests include renal cell carcinoma, bladder cancer, prostate cancer, and resident education. He’s a nationally renowned expert in the field, authoring more than 400 papers and serving as the lead author of the American Urological Association’s Guidelines for the Management of Kidney Cancer.

Dr. Campbell has treated a multitude of patients with all types of genitourinary cancer tumors in his 30+ year career in the field.

Before joining the Cleveland Clinic, he served as co-director of Urologic Oncology at Loyola University Medical Center, chief of the Urology service at Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital in Maywood, Illinois, and co-director of the Division of Urological Oncology at Northwestern.

After completing his urology residency at the Cleveland Clinic, he completed a fellowship in Urologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He obtained a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Chicago, where he earned his MD and bachelor’s degrees.