CUIMC/Herbert Irving Pavilion
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New York, NY 10032
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About Bret Taback, MD
Dr. Bret Taback is a nationally recognized surgical oncologist in the New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center department of surgery. Dr. Taback is a leader in the clinical management of melanoma, sarcoma and skin/soft tissue tumor surgery. Dr. Taback is the Director of the Melanoma and Sarcoma Program and Director of the Breast Surgery Fellowship. Dr. Taback received his MD degree at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston , and completed his general surgery residency at Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital.
During that time he completed a Basic Science Research Fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School in Boston. Fo...
Board Certifications
- Surgery
Expertise
- Breast Cancer
- Breast Cancer Surgery
- Breast Disease
- Mastectomies
- Melanoma
- Melanoma Surgery
- Sarcoma
- Sentinel Node Biopsy For Breast
- Specialist in Breast Cancer Surgery
- Specialist in Melanoma Surgery
Education
- Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Fellowship: John Wayne Cancer Institute , Santa Monica CA
- Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
- Residency: Brown University Rhode Island Hospital
- Residency: Northwestern University Hospital
Titles & Positions
- Assistant Professor of Surgery at CUMC
- Director, Breast Surgery Fellowship
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
- NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital
- NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester
Education
- Fellowship: John Wayne Cancer Institute , Santa Monica CA
- Residency: Brown University Rhode Island Hospital
- Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
- Residency: Northwestern University Hospital
- Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Awards & Honors
- Member, International Scientific Committee, The 4th International Sentinel Node Congress, Los Angeles, CA (2004)
- Co-Chairman, The 3rd International Conference on Circulating Nucleic Acids in Plasma and Serum & Serum Proteomics (CNAPS III), Santa Monica, CA (2003)
- Young Investigator Award, The 3rd International Sentinel Node Congress, Yokohama, Japan (2002)
- Merit Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Orlando, FL (2002)
- Elected to Associate Member Council, American Association for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, PA (2001-2004)
- Scholarship Award to attend Epidemiology and Biostatistics Conference, Berlex Oncology Foundation, Hackensack, NJ (2001)
- Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer Fellowship Award, Santa Monica, CA (2000)
- Merit Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology, New Orleans, LA (2000)
Titles & Positions
- Assistant Professor of Surgery at CUMC
- Director, Breast Surgery Fellowship
Board Certifications
- surgery