Sam Lubner, MD
sjlubner@medicine.wisc.edu
Health Sciences Learning Center
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705-2221
Sam Lubner is the assistant dean for students at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in the Doctor of Medicine (MD) program’s Office of Student Services. In this role he advises and mentors students to ensure their academic and professional success.
Lubner facilitates new and existing programs, serves as a key advisor and mentor to foster academic success and mental health, engages student leadership groups, and assists students with exploring medical specialties and applying for residency.
Lubner has been a faculty member in the Department of Medicine since 2010. As an oncologist, he cares for patients with esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, colon cancer and others. He also performs clinical research focused on these types of gastrointestinal malignancies.
He has held numerous roles devoted to education and student success. Since 2016, he has served as a mentor for Gundersen House, one of five houses that cultivate community in the MD program. He has also directed the Department of Medicine’s hematology/oncology fellowship since 2017.
Lubner is a Fellow in American College of Physicians, has served as chair of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Education Council and been inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society.
He earned his undergraduate degree in history at Princeton University before attending medical school at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. He completed an internal medicine residency at Washington University School of Medicine/Barnes-Jewish Hospital and a medical oncology fellowship at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.