William Martson Linehan MD

Dr. William Marston Linehan, MD, is the Chief of the Urologic Oncology Branch at the National Cancer Institute. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma. He completed internships in medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and in surgery at Duke University Medical Center. He continued his training with six more years of residency in urologic surgery and endocrine oncology at Duke. Dr. Linehan was a teaching scholar in academic urologic surgery at Duke from 1981 to 1982.

Dr. Linehan came to NIH in 1982 as a senior investigator and urologist-in-charge in the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute. In 1997, he was appointed Chief of the newly formed Urologic Oncology Branch.