Dr. Mitchell Sokoloff is the inaugural Chair of the Department of Urology at UMass Memorial Medical Center and UMass Chan Medical School, where he is also a Professor in the Department of Urology. During his distinguished career in academics as a surgeon-scientist, he has made seminal contributions to the field of urology in basic and translational research, clinical trials, technological innovation, and patient advocacy, education and outreach.
Dr. Sokoloff has been an international leader in addressing the social and political determinants of health, especially as they relate to education and access to care for men with prostate cancer. His clinical proactive is focused on the surgical management of prostate, kidney, and testis cancer, where he is regarded as a gifted surgeon, an outstanding educator and consistently ranked at the top of patient satisfaction and experience surveys.