Nipun Merchant joins Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

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NIPUN MERCHANT is joining the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center as chief surgical officer and director of Surgical Oncology Research Programs.

Merchant will also take on the newly created position of vice chair of Surgical Oncologic Services and Academic Affairs within the Department of Surgery, and will be the chief of Surgical Oncology at University of Miami Hospital as well as chief surgical officer at UMHC/Sylvester. In addition, he will serve as chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology.

He comes to the University of Miami from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he has been the director of the Vanderbilt Pancreas Center, chief of GI Surgical Oncology and co-leader of the GI Oncology Program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Comprehensive Cancer Center.

As vice chair, he will lead the clinical and research enterprises of surgical oncology and oversee the educational and academic programs. Merchant’s clinical practice is in GI malignancies with a focus on hepatobiliary and pancreatic cancers.

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