Professor of Surgery
Mayo Clinic Florida
James W. Jakub, MD is a Professor of Surgery at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Dr. Jakub is a high volume surgical oncologist, with a primary focus on breast cancer and melanoma. Dr. Jakub has been an early adopter and championed dissemination of a number of novel surgical innovations. He has been recognized by receiving the Mayo Clinic Innovation in Education Award and Outstanding Course Directors for our Radioguided Breast Surgery course. He is a leader in disseminating the novel technique of minimally invasive inguinal lymph node dissection for melanoma, for which he lead a 12-site multi-institutional trial melanoma. Dr. Jakub is currently the PI on a prospective trial investigating the role of axillary reverse mapping and lympho-venous bypass at the time of axillary lymph node dissection with the goal of lymphedema. He is the course director for a Mayo Clinic CME course Innovation, Disruptive Technologies and Early Adopters in Breast Cancer Care: Tomorrows Technologies Today as well as a co-course director for the highly successful Mayo Clinic Annual Practical Course in Dermoscopy & Update on Malignant Melanoma which is in its 16th year. He feels very fortunate to be working in a physician-lead organization with a large clinical volume, significant institutional infrastructure and a collaborative team approach whose primary value is the needs of the patients come first.