Cedars-Sinai Sarcoma Program Expert Team

The expert team members at the Cedars-Sinai Sarcoma Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute have extensive experience treating patients with sarcoma.

This means that patients with sarcomas have access to experienced specialists who can make prompt, accurate diagnoses and provide appropriate testing and surgery. New patient appointments are scheduled within one week of your initial telephone call.

Many of these experts focus exclusively on sarcoma and other benign tumors of the bone and soft tissue. They offer the latest techniques in radiation, chemotherapy and surgery, personalized for each patient's situation.

Expert Team

Farin Amersi MD Surgical Oncologist	Bonnie Balzer MD, PhD Director, Surgical Pathology Director, Dermatopathology Director, Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology, Head & Neck Pathology Co-Director, Surgical Pathology Fellowship
Earl Warren Brien MD Director, Musculoskeletal Tumor Service	Jason S. Cohen MD, FACS Surgical Oncology General and Laparoscopic Surgery
Charles Forscher MD Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Sarcoma Program	Behrooz Hakimian MD Co-Director, Gamma Knife Center Radiation Oncology Member, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild
Carole Hurvitz MD Physician Consultant, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology	Thomas Kerrihard MD Director, Oncology Supportive Care Services Psychiatry
Robert McKenna Jr MD Medical Director, Thoracic Surgery and Trauma Co-Medical Director, Women's Guild Lung Institute Surgical Director, Women's Guild Lung Institute Program Director, General Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Surgical Director, Women's Guild Lung Institute at Cedars-Sinai	Leslie Memsic MD FACS Surgical Oncologist, Samuel Oschin Cancer Center, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild
Allan W. Silberman MD, PhD, FACS Clinical Chief, Surgical Oncology Robert J. and Suzanne Gottlieb Chair in Surgical Oncology	Alan Waxman MD Director, Nuclear Medicine