As the new Section Chief for Upper GI, HPB and endocrine surgery at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mashaal Dhir, MD, FACS, is eager to share his mission-driven approach to working with patients and referring physicians alike to fight cancer.
"The mission at Roswell aligns with my personal mission of providing surgical excellence with compassion, multidisciplinary care, with state-of-the-art treatment as well as innovation while keeping the human side of treatments,” he says. “I think experts at Roswell are not only defining how cancer should be treated, but they are laying standards for the rest of the world as well.”
He anticipates a continued focus on precision oncology for hepatobiliary and other GI cancers in addition to “next-gen sequencing so we can look for targeted mutations. More and more, we are looking for those mutations to monitor, to use for early detection.”
Dr. Dhir also has a clear goal for the future of his department at Roswell Park. “My vision for our section of hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery at Roswell is that we become the leading, number one cancer center in America,” he says. “We’re already working together on bringing multidisciplinary treatment, state-of-the-art treatment, precision oncology, precision surgery and minimally invasive surgery for our patients.”
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