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Dr. Weight is the Center Director for Urologic Oncology at the Cleveland Clinic. He is a Professor of Urology in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. He also directs the SUO Urologic Oncology Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic. He is a graduate of University of Utah School of Medicine. After completing medical school, Dr. Weight successfully completed his residency at Cleveland Clinic and fellowship in Urologic Oncology at the Mayo Clinic. During this time he also completed a Master's Degree in Clinical and Translational Research at the Mayo Graduate School. He splits his time between patient care, education and research.
Dr. Weight is constantly trying to answer questions on how to better prevent, diagnose, treat and improve the lives of those affected by genitourinary tumors. He is an NIH funded researcher as either a PI or Co-I on four R01 grants, PI on one Department of Defense grant, and multiple foundational and industry sponsored research projects. His areas of research have focused on environmental exposures that may lead to genitourinary cancers as well as utilizing artificial intelligence to help personalize the treatment of patients with GU malignancies. He has been the clinical director of four international AI challenges in kidney cancer KITS19, KITS21, KNiGHT 22 and the upcoming KITS 23.
Dr. Weight is passionate about teaching surgery, patient care and how to ask and interesting questions that lead to better outcomes for our patients. He was awarded the teacher of the year multiple times at multiple institutions. He's a widely respected urologic oncologist with patients coming to obtain care from him from around the world.
Dr. Weight has also traveled the world, celebrating and elevating those affected by kidney cancer through the non-profit organization he founded called Climb 4 Kidney Cancer, see https://climb4kc.org/. Dr. Weight and team have climbed mountains on 5 continents carrying kidney cancer patients' photos to the summit. The C4KC team has also created stairclimbing events to honor kidney cancer patients, while using the symbolism of climbing and fighting cancer to help raise money for kidney cancer research. This fundraising led to several seed grants which have in turn led to 3-6 times the original investments in subsequent grants and downstream research funding.
Shorter bio
Professor Weight is the Center Director for Urologic Oncology at Cleveland Clinic. He splits his time between patient care, education and research. He directs the Society of Urologic Oncology Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic. He is an NIH funded researcher focusing on GU malignancies. He is the clinical director of several international kidney cancer challenges in AI. Nearly 10 years ago he founded a non-profit organization called climb 4 kidney cancer to elevate and celebrate kidney cancer patients while raising money for kidney cancer research.
Dr. Weight is constantly trying to answer questions on how to better prevent, diagnose, treat and improve the lives of those affected by genitourinary tumors. He is an NIH funded researcher as either a PI or Co-I on four R01 grants, PI on one Department of Defense grant, and multiple foundational and industry sponsored research projects. His areas of research have focused on environmental exposures that may lead to genitourinary cancers as well as utilizing artificial intelligence to help personalize the treatment of patients with GU malignancies. He has been the clinical director of four international AI challenges in kidney cancer KITS19, KITS21, KNiGHT 22 and the upcoming KITS 23.
Dr. Weight is passionate about teaching surgery, patient care and how to ask and interesting questions that lead to better outcomes for our patients. He was awarded the teacher of the year multiple times at multiple institutions. He's a widely respected urologic oncologist with patients coming to obtain care from him from around the world.
Dr. Weight has also traveled the world, celebrating and elevating those affected by kidney cancer through the non-profit organization he founded called Climb 4 Kidney Cancer, see https://climb4kc.org/. Dr. Weight and team have climbed mountains on 5 continents carrying kidney cancer patients' photos to the summit. The C4KC team has also created stairclimbing events to honor kidney cancer patients, while using the symbolism of climbing and fighting cancer to help raise money for kidney cancer research. This fundraising led to several seed grants which have in turn led to 3-6 times the original investments in subsequent grants and downstream research funding.
Shorter bio
Professor Weight is the Center Director for Urologic Oncology at Cleveland Clinic. He splits his time between patient care, education and research. He directs the Society of Urologic Oncology Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic. He is an NIH funded researcher focusing on GU malignancies. He is the clinical director of several international kidney cancer challenges in AI. Nearly 10 years ago he founded a non-profit organization called climb 4 kidney cancer to elevate and celebrate kidney cancer patients while raising money for kidney cancer research.
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