New faculty spotlight: TJ Pugh, MD

TJ Pugh, MD, is a new faculty member at UNMC.

• Name: TJ Pugh, MD
• Title and department at UNMC and Nebraska Medicine: Professor, UNMC Department of Radiation Oncology; radiation oncologist, Nebraska Medicine and the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
• Hometown: Omaha

Education:

• Medical school, University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus
• Internship, University of Colorado School of Medicine
• Residency in radiation oncology, University of Colorado School of Medicine

Medical interests: 

• Treatment of genitourinary cancer (prostate, bladder, penile, testes, kidney)
• Treatment of thoracic cancers (lung cancer, mesothelioma, thymoma)
• Treatment of metastatic cancers
• Ablative radiation therapy
• Development of advanced radiation technologies (proton beam therapy, image guided radiation therapy)
• Combination of radiation therapy and systemic cancer treatments (chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy)

How I fell in love with medicine and my specialty:

I enjoy working in teams to leverage different talents and expertise to achieve a common goal. Cancer medicine is a discipline that requires such teamwork to best care for the individual patient.  

Professional memberships:

• American Society for Radiation Oncology
• American Society of Clinical Oncology
• American Medical Association
• American Board of Radiology

Three things people might not know about me:

• I enjoy Broadway musicals.
• I was an All-American basketball player before going into the medical profession.
• To my recollection, I’ve never lost a game of Connect Four.

Clinical locations: 

• Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center – Nebraska Medical Center
• Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center – Village Pointe Health Center

For appointments and referrals: 402-559-5600