About Joseph Skitzki

Dr. Joseph J. Skitzki is an Associate Professor of Surgical Oncology and Associate Member of the Immunology Department at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he joined the faculty in 2009. He is also an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo.

Dr. Skitzki received his medical degree from the Pennsylvania State University's College of Medicine, Hershey, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He completed a General Surgery residency at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, and a two-year research fellowship in Surgical Oncology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of several professional societies, including the Society of Surgical Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Association for Cancer Research, American Society of Peritoneal Surface Malignancies and the Association for Academic Surgery.

Dr. Skitzki's clinical focus is on melanoma and sarcoma, and he specializes in regional therapies. His independent lab focuses on immunotherapies for melanoma and animal modeling of regional therapies with the goal of clinical translation. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 journal publications, book chapters and abstracts.