Feldman named chief of breast surgery & surgical oncology, director of breast cancer services at Montefiore and Einstein

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Sheldon M. Feldman was named chief of the division of breast surgery and surgical oncology, and director of Breast Cancer Services at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care, the clinical arm of the Albert Einstein Cancer Center.

Feldman will also join the faculty of Albert Einstein College of Medicine as a professor of clinical surgery. Feldman has pioneered techniques such as intraoperative radiation. He is also an innovator in reducing risk of lymphedema. Feldman is the president of the American Society of Breast Surgeons.

Feldman is the former chief of the breast surgery division at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia University Medical Center and as the Vivian L. Milstein Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery. Feldman will serve as a principle investigator on multiple breast cancer studies focused on advancing prevention, early diagnosis and patient centered treatment of the disease.

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