Jonathan Rowland, MD

Dr. Jonathan Rowland is an oncologic emergency medicine assistant professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. He completed medical school at UT SOM San Antonio, residency at WSU/DMC Sinai Grace Hospital, an emergency ultrasound fellowship at UC Irvine, and has been exclusively working at MD Anderson's Acute Cancer Care Center since 2021, one of the nation's only dedicated oncologic ERs. He, unfortunately, every shift, still sees at least a dozen new words he's never seen before, usually new cancer therapeutics, and has concluded that that will actually never end, and accepts his fate as an okay ER doctor who must now find ways to avoid cancer-care-related mistakes in an institution that does not take kindly to them. In addition to setting up a point-of-care ultrasound program presence at MD Anderson, his other professional interest is learning more about cancer treatment so he gets fewer angry emails from other oncologists. He particularly enjoys simplifying MD Anderson's library of convoluted algorithms so that they can actually be remembered by mere mortal ER docs. In his spare time, he enjoys woodworking, fixing things around the house, climbing, and trying to be a good dad to his 6-year-old girl and 4-year-old boy.