Johannes Vieweg

Who is Johannes Vieweg?

Dr. Johannes Vieweg is the Professor and Founding Chairman of the Department of Urology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. He also holds the Huizenga Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Urologic Oncology at UF and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Vieweg received his medical degree from the Technical University of Munich, Germany and began his residency training at the University of Ulm, Department of Urology. After relocating to the United States, he received three years of postdoctoral training at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY prior to completing his urology residency training at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC. After a 9-year tenure on the Duke Urology faculty, he joined the University of Florida in July 2006.

Under Dr. Vieweg’s leadership, the UF Department of Urology has witnessed considerable growth through the successful recruitment of numerous outstanding, fellowship-trained faculty. Over the past four years, more than twelve fellowship-trained urologic subspecialists have joined the UF Urology faculty.