Chief of Breast Surgery
Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Julie Lang graduated from medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999. She did a general surgery residency and a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (7 years of postgraduate training). She then completed a breast surgical oncology fellowship at the UT-MD Anderson Cancer Center.
She served as an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Director of Breast Surgical Oncology at the University of Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson, Arizona from 2007-2012. She then moved to Los Angeles to serve as Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of the Breast Cancer Research Program at the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center from 2012-2020. She joined the Cleveland Clinic in 2021 as Chief of Breast Surgery and Co-Leader of the Breast Cancer Program at the Cleveland Clinic.
Dr. Lang is a physician-scientist with numerous publications, book chapters and invited presentations. She is a clinical-translational researcher with a laboratory in the Lerner Research Institute in the Department of Cancer Biology at Cleveland Clinic. Her research includes clinical trials, biomarker research (circulating tumor cells and ctDNA), and translational genomics. She is the Lula Zapis Endowed Chair to Support Breast Cancer Research. She is known as a patient-centered, problem-solving, innovative, compassionate surgeon. She specializes in breast surgical oncology and enjoys working with the multidisciplinary care team to achieve the best outcomes for each patient.
Dr. Lang is originally from Cleveland, Ohio and has returned to practice in her hometown at the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus.