Joshi Alumkal, MD

About Joshi Alumkal, MD

Dr. Joshi Alumkal is a Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. Raised in Texas, Dr. Alumkal graduated summa cum laude from the University of Texas with a B.A. in Biology. Then, he received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. He completed an internship, residency, and chief residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center. After completing a clinical fellowship in Medical Oncology at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Alumkal completed a post-doctoral fellowship focused on cancer epigenetics in the Jim Herman Laboratory at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Alumkal joined the Knight Cancer Institute Prostate Cancer Research Program at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in 2007 and became the co-Leader of the Program in 2013. He was also named the inaugural holder of the Wayne D. Kuni and Joan E. Kuni Endowed Chair for Prostate Cancer Research at OHSU in 2017. In 2019, Dr. Alumkal re-located to the University of Michigan to lead the Prostate/Genitourinary Medical Oncology Section in the Division of Hematology-Oncology and the Rogel Cancer Center, where he is a Professor of Internal Medicine. He was named a Rogel Cancer Center Rogel Scholar in 2019.