Richard Alexander, MD

Department of Surgery
Division of Urology

Departmental/Divisional Leadership Roles

• Division Chief, Urology, Department of Surgery

Academic Appointment

• Professor of Surgery at UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate

Education and Training

• National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
  Senior Staff Fellow, Surgery Branch (1988-1990)
• The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
  • Residency, Urology (1984-1987)
  • Research Fellow, Department of Urology (1983-1984)
• Vanderbilt University Affiliated Hospitals, Nashville, TN
  Residency, General Surgery (1981-1983)
• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
  M.D. (1981)
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  B.A. (with honors), Natural Science (1978)

Scholarly Activity

View a list of Dr. Alexander's publications in the Scholarly Commons repository.

Professional Societies and Leadership Roles (Limit 5)

• American Urological Association
  • New England Section
    • Member (2016-present)
  • Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Urological Association
    • Investment Committee (2013-2015)
    • Research Committee (1997-1999)
  • American Urological Association Annual Meeting
    • Abstract Review Committee: “Infection and Inflammation” (2002-2006)
  • Maryland Urological Association Annual Meeting, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
    • Course Director (2003)        
  • American Urological Association Instructional Course: Evaluation and Management of Prostatitis
    • Course Director (2001-2002)      
  • American Foundation for Urologic Disease/American Urological Association Research
    • Grants Review Committee (1997)
  • Member (1991-present)
• Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer
  • Member (2004-2015)
• Society of Academic Urologists
  • Member (2003-2015)

Significant Honors and Awards (Limit 5)

• Dornier American Urological Association Scholar (1998)
• American Urological Association-European Association of Urology Academic Fellowship Program, Alternate (1996)
• Upjohn Young Investigator Award, American Association for Cancer Research (1990)
• Francis Schwentker Award for House Staff Research, Johns Hopkins Hospital (1987)
• American Cancer Society Clinical Fellowship, Johns Hopkins Hospital (1985)

Contact Information

Department of Surgery
48 Sanderson Street, Suite 200
Greenfield, MA 01301
413-773-2680

(Updated March 2022)