Jonathan S. Zager, MD
Dr. Zager is an assistant member and surgical oncologist in both the Cutaneous Oncology and Sarcoma programs at Moffitt Cancer Center. He also is an assistant professor of surgery in the departments of Oncological Sciences and Surgery at the University of South Florida.
Dr. Zager earned a medical degree at the Sackler School of Medicine, New York State/American Program at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel. He completed a general surgery residency at Montefiore Medical Center, part of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He also completed a research fellowship in surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, as well as a clinical surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Dr Zager is board certified by the American Board of Surgeons with a subspecialty in surgical oncology.
He has published more than 60 articles, reviews and book chapters. He has presented nearly 100 talks at both national and international surgical and oncology meetings. Dr. Zager currently serves on committees of numerous national and international work groups and societies such as the Society of Surgical Oncology and the Sentinel Node Oncology Foundation. He is a member of the editorial board for The World Journal of Surgical Oncology, and currently serves on the program committee for the Florida Society of Clinical Oncology and the Regional Cancer Therapies Annual Meeting.
Dr. Zager's research interests are in treating cutaneous melanoma, as well as non-melanoma skin cancers and soft tissue sarcomas (both extremity and retroperitoneal sarcomas). He has a particular interest in minimally invasive limb perfusions (or isolated limb infusions) for extremity in transit or recurrent melanoma, and he serves as the PI on the Pivotal Delcath Liver Perfusion Phase III trial. He has also developed an interest in intraoperative PET probe directed surgery for difficult to localize metastatic lesions.
