Firas Eladoumikdachi named program director at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey at Hamilton

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FIRAS ELADOUMIKDACHI was named program director for the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey at Hamilton. He will be responsible for clinical leadership of the oncology service line at RWJ Hamilton including medical, surgical and radiation oncology.

Eladoumikdachi is an assistant professor of surgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He has been with RWJ Hamilton and the Stacy Goldstein Breast Cancer Center at Rutgers Cancer Institute in New Brunswick for the past year. Prior to that, Eladoumikdachi served as the director of the breast program at Genesis Health Care System in Ohio and vice chair of Ohio Integrated Care Providers.

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