Speaker Details

Prof. Mahmoud is trained as a breast surgeon with 25 years of experience caring for patients with breast cancer and works collaboratively with other breast cancer specialists on Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's multidisciplinary breast cancer disease management team. Prof. El-Tamer received his MD from the American University of Beirut in 1981. After his training, Prof. El-Tamer became interested in joining these two disciplines to provide improved care to breast cancer patients, and has developed a special expertise in this growing field of oncoplastic surgery. Prof. El-Tamer has published "Principals & Techniques in Oncoplastic Breast Cancer Surgery", a textbook to help other surgeons enhance cosmetic results while performing surgery to treat breast cancer. He holds the patent to a new agent for sentinel node detection.