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Our Expert, Multidisciplinary Team

Drawing from all of the disciplines that contribute to the understanding and treatment of breast health, Cedars-Sinai has assembled a team of experts dedicated to achieving the best possible outcomes for its patients. The multidisciplinary team, that includes the full spectrum of diagnostic and treatment approaches, meets to review patient cases to develop a plan of care individually tailored to each patient's specific needs.

Edward H. Phillips, MD, FACS Director, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center; Executive Vice Chairman, Dept. of Surgery; Chief, Division of General Surgery; Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program; Surgeon, Center for Weight Loss; Surgeon, Colorectal Cancer Program	Jerrold H. Steiner, MD, FACS Co-Director, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center

Surgery

• Kenneth W. Adashek, MD, FACS
• Farin Amersi, MD
• Catherine M. Dang, MD
• Kristi M. Funk, MD
• Scott Karlan, MD, FACS
• Leslie Memsic, MD
• Edward H. Phillips, MD, FACS
• Jerrold H. Steiner, MD, FACS
• Gregory K. Tsushima, MD

Medical Oncology

• William Audeh, MD
• Richard E. Gould, MD
• Philomena F. McAndrew, MD
• Michael Van Scoy Mosher, MD
• Marina Vaysburd, MD
• Edward Wolin, MD

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

• Joel Aronowitz, MD  Division Clinical Chief
• Lisa Cassileth, MD
• Andrew Cohen, MD
• David A. Kulber, MD  Clinical Chief of Surgery; Director, Plastic Surgery Center
• Mark Labowe, MD, FACC, FACP, FCCP, FAHA
• Leif Rogers, MD
• Randy Sherman, MD  Vice-Chair, Department of Surgery
• R. Kendrick Slate, MD  Director, Plastic Surgery
• Leslie Stevens, MD
• Gary Tearston, MD

Imaging

• Donald S. Cohen, MD  Chief, Mammography Section
• Steven D. Frankel, MD 
• Peter J. Julien, MD  Chief, Thoracic Imaging; Director, Radiofrequency Ablation Program
• Brenda Safranko, MD
• Rola Saouaf, MD  Chief, Body and Cardiac MRI
• Richard Sukov, MD  Chief, Gastrointestinal Radiology
• Alan Waxman, MD  Co-Chair, Department of Imaging; Chief, Nuclear Medicine

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

• Shikha Bose, MD  Director, Cytopathology
• Farnaz Dadmanesh, MD
• Xuemo Fan, MD, PhD
• Karen Scharre, MD

Radiation Oncology

• Michele C. Burnison, MD
• Behrooz Hakimian, MD  Co-Director, Gamma Knife Center
• Amin J. Mirhadi, MD
• Howard M. Sandler, MD

Medical Genetics

• Ora Gordon, MD  Director, GenRISK Program

Other Participating Team Members

• Suzanne Trott, MD - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - candidate participant*

Multidisciplinary Team