Assistant or Associate Attending Surgeon, Gastric Mixed Tumor Service

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Exciting Opportunity at MSK: Surgical Oncologist, Gastric Mixed Tumor Service

The Department of Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) is seeking a highly motivated surgical oncologist to join the Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service. This position offers the opportunity to specialize in melanoma while also managing cutaneous malignancies, gastric cancer, and soft tissue sarcoma within a highly specialized multidisciplinary team.

Role Overview

The successful candidate will provide comprehensive surgical oncology care, to join the Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service team of 10 surgeons and will have a primary clinical and research focus on melanoma with the ability to treat patients with cutaneous malignancies, gastric cancer and soft tissue sarcoma. In addition, the candidate will participate in the care of other problems managed by the Gastric and Mixed tumor service including but not limited to, hernia repair, lymph node biopsy, splenectomy. The candidate will receive an academic appointment at Weill Cornell Medical College. As members of the multidisciplinary Melanoma Disease management Team, Gastric Disease Management Team and Soft Tissue Sarcoma Disease Management Team, surgical oncologists on the Gastric and Mixed Tumor service provide an integrated, highly specialized, and personalized treatment approach for patients with Melanoma, Gastric Cancer and Soft Tissue Sarcoma.

Responsibilities include seeing patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings, performing surgical resections and abdominal operations, treating general surgical oncology problems on call, educating residents and fellows, and conducting scientific research.

Core Requirements

• Board certification or eligibility in Surgical Oncology
• Training in an ACGME-accredited fellowship in surgical oncology
•  Experience in the multi-modality management of melanoma along with clinical trial development is preferred.
•  A defined clinical or translational research interest in melanoma.
•  Second year surgical oncology fellows are eligible to apply

Application Instructions

To apply, please submit the following to Mindy Sovel Director, Hospital Operations; sovelm@mskcc.org:

• Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Letter of Interest
• Contact information for three references

Pay Range: 380,000 - 650,000

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