Surgical Fellowship

When Kristen Carr was diagnosed in 1990, her physician, Dr. Murray Brennan was one of only a handful of surgeons in the United States with experience in treating her type of cancer.  She was fortunate to live near Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where Dr. Brennan was Chief of Surgery.  If not for Dr. Brennan’s expert care, Kristen may have lost her battle with sarcoma much sooner. At the very least, it was a tremendous comfort to know that her doctor had specialized experience in order to give her a fighting chance.

KACF Surgical Fellowship was established in 1994 in order to give other patients around the country the same fighting chance.  Each year a KACF Surgical Fellow receives advanced training in treating patients with sarcoma at MSKCC under the supervision of Dr. Brennan.  Because many graduating fellows then move to other institutions across the country, and because almost all of them work in teaching hospitals, where they train other doctors, the field of sarcoma experts continues to widen and grow in number.

Today’s sarcoma patients have a greater chance of being treated near their homes. That means, among other things, being closer to the various kinds of non-medical support each patient needs and often best receives from family and friends.  And the addition of new experts helps advance clinical knowledge in treating sarcoma across the board.

That’s what The Kristen Ann Carr Fellowship is really all about – a chance to get every sarcoma patient to an expert with experience in treating these rare and capricious tumors, and to do it with the greatest comfort to the patient.

 

 

Jonathan Lewis, MD, PhD

1994-1995

current position
Chief Medical Officer
Syncromune

Martin J. Heslin, M.D., M.S.H.A.

1995-1996

current position
Director
USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute

Lawrence E Harrison, M.D.

1996-1997

current position
Chief
Atlantic Surgical Oncology

Kevin Billingsley, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.S.

1997-1998

current position
Chief Medical Officer and Professor of Surgery
Yale Cancer Center

David C. Linehan, M.D.

1998-1999

current position
Chair and Professor of Department of Surgery
University of Rochester Medicine - Wilmot Cancer Institute

Martin R. Weiser, M.D.

1999-2000

current position
Stuart H.Q. Quan Chair in Colorectal Surgery, Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs, Department of Surgery
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Martin D. McCarter, M.D.

2000-2001

current position
Surgical Director for the Esophageal and Gastric Cancer Program
University of Colorado Denver, Department of Surgery, Division of GI, Tumor, and Endocrine Surgery

Larissa Temple, M.D.

2001-2002

current position
Chief of the Division of Colorectal Surgery
University of Rochester Medicine

Sam Yoon, M.D.

2002-2003

current position
Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology and Vice-Chair of Surgical Oncology Research and Education in the Department of Surgery
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Stephen R. Grobmyer, M.D.

2003-2004

current position
Chair of the Oncology Institute
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Sandra L. Wong, M.D., M.S.

2004-2005

current position
Chair of the Department of Surgery and Professor of Surgery at Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Clifford Suhyun Cho, M.D.

2005-2006

current position
C. Gardner Child Professor of Surgery in the Division of Hepatopancreatobiliary and Advanced Gastrointestinal Surgery
Michigan Medicine

Rebecca Auer, M.D., M.Sc., F.R.C.S.C.

2006-2007

current position
Scientific Director of the Cancer Therapeutic Program, Surgical Oncologist, and Professor of Surgery at University of Ottawa
The Ottawa Hospital

Michael G. House, M.D.

2007-2008

current position
Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology
Indiana University School of Medicine

Steven Katz, M.D.

2008-2009

current position
Chief Medical Officer, Scientific Advisory Board Chairman
TriSalus Life Sciences

Jason Sicklick, M.D., F.A.C.S.

2009-2010

current position
Surgical Oncologist, GIST Specialist, and Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology
UC San Diego Health

Paul Karanicolas, M.D.

2010-2011

current position
Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology
University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

George Plitas, M.D.

2011-2012

current position
Associate Attending, Department of Surgery
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Kaitlyn Kelly

2012

current position
Surgical Oncologist and Assistant Professor of Surgery
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

Christina Angeles

2013

current position
Surgical Oncology
Rogel Cancer Center

Ann Lee

2014

current position
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
New York University Medical Center

Michael J. Cavnar

2015

current position
Department of Surgery, Section of Surgical Oncology
University of Kentucky

Iris Wei

2016

current position
Assistant Attending Colorectal Surgery
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Edmund (Ned) King Bartlett

2017

current position
Surgical Oncology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Philip M. Spanheimer

2018

current position
Division of Surgical Oncology
UNC School of Medicine

Sonia Cohen, MD, PhD

2019

current position
Assistant in Surgical Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital

Madalyn Neuwirth

2020

current position
Fellow
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Daniel C. Thomas

2021

current position
Fellow
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

George Z. Li

2022

current position
Fellow
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Marion (Mengyuan) Liu

2023

current position
Fellow
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center