Gregory Zagaja of Chicago receives Distinguished Alumni Award from Quinnipiac University

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Quinnipiac University President John L. Lahey, left, Gregory Zagaja, of Chicago, and Patrick A. Charmel, president of the Quinnipiac University Alumni Association’s National Board of Governors.

HAMDEN, CT (02/18/2010)(readMedia)-- Gregory Zagaja, of Chicago, received the Distinguished Alumni Award at Quinnipiac University's Winter Homecoming celebration on Feb. 6.

The Distinguished Alumni Award is presented to alumni that have displayed outstanding leadership and achievement in their careers, have continually served their local and global community, have acted as a conduit for alumni who are looking to reconnect with the university and have displayed philanthropic loyalty and bonds with Quinnipiac.

Zagaja is considered one of the foremost experts in urological oncology and the management of prostate and bladder cancer and is a national leader in the development of robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery to treat prostate cancer.

Zagaja joined the University of Chicago's faculty in 1998, and is an associate professor of surgery/urology and director of the prostate cancer program.

He earned his bachelor's degree in medical technology at Quinnipiac in 1981. He is married to fellow Quinnipiac alumna Virginia Grana Zagaja.

Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 5,700 full-time undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students in 52 undergraduate and 19 graduate programs of study in its School of Business, School of Communications, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, School of Law, and College of Arts and Sciences. Quinnipiac ranks among the top 10 universities with master's programs in the Northern region in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges. The 2009 issue of U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges named Quinnipiac as the top up-and-coming school with master's programs in the North. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review's The Best 371 Colleges. For more information, please visit http://www.quinnipiac.edu.