Formal surgical oncology fellowships are completed after 2-3 years of additional training. Two years are devoted soley to the clinical management of cancer patients and an additional year can be spent in research.
I finished a three year fellowship at Roswell-Park Memorial
Institute in Buffalo, New York- the first cancer hospital
in the United States Of America; a research year was completed
in tumor immunology (1986-1988).
I published on the production of bifunctional
monoclonal antibodies for use in targeting malignant tumors.
My general surgery residency was at Howard University Hospital after graduating from Indiana Medical School.
Undergraduate institution- DePauw University- Greencastle, Indiana.
I currently am in private practice
specializing in surgical oncology.