John Petros, M.D.

Associate Professor of Urology, Emory University School of Medicine and Veterans Administration Hospital

Dr. John Petros spends his days at Emory and Emory's Winship Cancer Institute caring for patients and researching better therapies and treatments in the field of urological cancers. During his 12 years at Emory, he has cared for patients with a variety of urological cancers including: prostate, testicular, bladder, and renal cancers. The urological surgeon also treats patients at the Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center.

Dr. Petros has extensive expertise in mitochondrial DNA mutations in prostate cancer  research that determines how the mutations protect cancer cells from their normal cell death and enhance tumor growth and metastasis, or the spreading of the cells to other parts of the body. He also has investigated how cancer-associated stromal cells may support the survival of cancer cells.

Dr. Petros received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and his M.D. from Loyola University. He completed an internship and residency in urology at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. He was awarded a National Institutes of Health Surgical Oncology Training Grant where he completed a two-year fellowship at Washington University. In 1993, Dr. Petros joined the faculty at Emory, where he now serves as an associate professor in urology.

He has published dozens of research articles and has also written a number of book chapters. He is a member of the American Urologic Association, the Atlanta Urologic Society, and the Society of Surgical Oncology.

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