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- Congressional Representatives Step Up to the Plate for Cancer Care
- Dr. Sheldon Feldman Appointed Chief of Breast Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
- Smaller Breast Reduction Surgeries Provide Health Benefits and Should Be Reimbursed, Study Finds
- Avon Foundation Breast Imaging Center and Research Lab Open at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center
- New Oncoplastic Surgery Combines Breast Cancer Surgery and Breast Reduction Surgery
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Has the Largest Hospital Team in Race for the Cure® with 500+ Participants
- Columbia University Medical Center Receives $10 Million Department of Defense Grant to Study Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment
- COX-2 Inhibitor May Boost Cancer Treatment, NewYork Weill Cornell Study Shows
- Lower White Blood Cell Counts in African-American Women May Limit Breast Cancer Treatment and Survival, According to Columbia University Medical Center Study
- Avon CEO Andrea Jung to Receive Award for Distinguished Service from Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
- Avon Walk for Breast Cancer Launches Breast Cancer Awareness Month in New York; Funding Awarded to Local Organizations
- Dr. Anne Moore, New York Weill Cornell Physician, Receives Award from Lawyers' Breast Cancer Group
- Weill Cornell Physicians Rebut Recent Criticisms on Value of Mammography
- Columbia University Medical Center Researchers Reveal Tamoxifen May Lengthen Lives of Women at Very High Risk of Breast Cancer
- Weill Cornell Receives Avon Foundation Grant for Complementary and Integrative Program on Meditation-Based Stress Reduction for Women Cancer Patients
- A Gift for the Women of Northern Manhattan: Columbia University Medical Center Receives Avon Foundation Gift for Health Scholar
- Columbia University Medical Center, With Support From Women at Risk, Aims To Identify and Train Future Leaders in Breast Cancer Surgery
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Clinical Services
Breast Centers
The Breast Centers at both NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center are among the most modern and technologically advanced facilities of their kind. The clinicians at the Centers are accomplished, caring specialists who have a long-standing commitment to women's health. Patients receive comprehensive breast care in one of two centralized locations, in a nurturing and friendly environment.
The teams at the Breast Centers maintain a multidisciplinary approach, combining the expertise of specialists in surgical oncology, medical oncology, alternative integrative medicine, radiation oncology, mammography and diagnostic imaging, plastic and reconstructive surgery, psychology, social services, nursing, physiotherapy and rehabilitation medicine, psychiatry, and nutrition. The centers also organize a range of patient support groups.
Our Team
Breast Cancer Surgery
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell
- Faith Menken, M.D.
(212) 439-9547 - Eugene Nowak, M.D.
(212) 746-6887 - Rache Simmons, M.D.
(212) 821-0853 - Alexander Swistle, M.D.
(212) 821-0602 - Eleni Tousimis, M.D.
(212) 821-0850
NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia
- Sheldon Feldman, M.D.
(212) 305-9676 - Mahmoud B. El-Tamer, M.D.
(212) 305-0728 - Kathie-Ann P. Joseph, M.D.
(212) 305-0742 - Laura Klein, M.D.
(212) 305-0456 - Helen Pass, M.D.
(212) 787-0456 - Bret Taback, M.D.
(212) 324-6042
Breast Medical Oncology
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell
- Ellen Chuang, M.D.
(212) 821-0654 - Tessa Cigler, M.D.
(212) 821-0736 - Anne Moore, M.D.
(212) 746-2085 - Ronald Scheff, M.D.
(212) 821-0644 - Linda Vahdat, M.D.
(212) 821-0644
NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia
- Katherine Crew, M.D.
(212) 305-1732 - Dawn Hershman, M.D.
(212) 305-1945 - Martin Oster, M.D.
(212) 305-8231 - Matt Maurer, M.D.
(212) 305-0170
Contact
- Breast Center, NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia
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Directions
(212) 305-1534
- Breast Center, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell
- (212) 821-0833
