 | Dr. Ronald R. Salem |
Dr. Ronald R. Salem, recently named the Lampman Professor of Surgery, specializes in surgery for esophageal cancer, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, retroperitoneal sarcomas and other intra-abdominal malignancies.
His research interests include combined modality therapy for esophageal cancer and the management of benign and malignant liver tumors.
Salem was educated in Zimbabwe, earning degrees in medicine and surgery from the University of Rhodesia. He interned at Harare Hospital in Zimbabwe and was an emergency room physician at Guys Hospital in London, England, before completing a residency in general surgery at Hammersmith Hospital in London. In 1985, he came to the United States as a research fellow in surgical oncology at the Dana Farber Cancer Center and New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston. He became a senior resident in general surgery at New England Deaconess Hospital in 1987 and became the chief resident in general surgery there in 1989.
The surgical oncologist joined the Yale School of Medicine faculty in 1990 as an assistant professor and became an associate professor in 1996. He is chief of the Red Surgery General Surgery Service of oncologic and endocrine surgery. He has also held posts as chief of surgical oncology at the West Haven Veterans Administration Medical Center and as chief of surgery at the Yale Health Plan. He also co-directs the Gastrointestinal Cancers Program of the Yale Cancer Center. Since coming to Yale, he was won multiple General Surgery Resident Teaching Awards. In 2005, he received the Alvan Feinstein Clinical Teaching Award.
Salem has co-authored numerous professional articles on subjects ranging from colorectal cancer to the diagnosis and treatment of liver cancer to lymph node dissection in the management of breast cancer.
Salem's professional involvements have included serving as Yale-New Haven Hospital's cancer liaison officer to The American College of Surgeons and on the Committee for Clinical Affairs for The Society of Surgical Oncology. He has also served on the editorial board of the Annals of Surgical Oncology. He is listed in New York magazine's list of top doctors in the New York region and in Connecticut Magazine's list of top doctors in the areas of cancer and liver transplantation, among other honors recognizing his expertise in his field.
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