Jonathan P. Jarow, MD, Professor of Urology, Radiology, Pathology, and Biochemistry, was born in Freeport, New York and graduated from Northwestern University College and medical school. He completed his general surgical and urological training at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1986. He also completed fellowship training in male reproductive medicine and erectile dysfunction at Baylor College of Medicine and University of California San Francisco, respectively. He was on faculty at Bowman Gray School of Medicine for ten years and returned to Johns Hopkins in 1997.

Dr. Jarow has an active clinical practice specializing in prostate and testis cancer, male infertility, erectile dysfunction and Peyronie's disease. He has performed over 1,000 radical prostatectomies and is an expert at robotic assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy, performing more than 100 prostatectomies each year. He is the medical director of the andrology laboratory for the department of pathology. He has teaching responsibilities for both the School of Medicine and the School Public Health. His research interests are in the outcomes of robotic prostatectomy and the hormonal control of spermatogenesis. Dr. Jarow has two NIH funded grants, one is a center grant (U54) to study male infertility and the second is an RO1 to study hormonal control of spermatogenesis with possible application to male contraception.

Dr. Jarow is a well-known author, editor, and lecturer, having published more than 100 scientific papers and chapters. He has served on the editorial boards of the journals Urology, Journal of Urology, Journal of Andrology, and World Journal of Urology. Dr. Jarow served as a consultant for the examination committee of the American Board of Urology. Active in numerous scientific organizations, Dr. Jarow was President of several specialty societies including both the Society for the Study of Male Reproduction and Society of Male Reproduction and Urology of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. He has served as the chair for the American Urological Association Best Practices Committee’s for both male infertility and erectile dysfunction.