MSK’s pancreatic cancer team is among the nation’s largest for treatment of pancreatic cancer or a pancreatic cyst. We’re a leading hospital for pancreatic cancer care and research.
Our surgeons operate on about 350 people with pancreatic cancer a year. Our oncologists (cancer doctors) and other subspecialists treat about 850 people a year. That’s among the highest volumes of pancreatic cancer cases in both New York City and the country.
Our pancreatic cancer team has experts from many specialties. This includes surgeons, oncologists, radiation oncologists, gastroenterologists, radiologists, and pathologists.
They’re recognized worldwide for their strengths in diagnosing and treating tumors of the pancreas. Your care team works together to give you an accurate diagnosis and to create a treatment plan.
Many of our doctors are also researchers working on new treatments for pancreatic cancer. This means you may be able to join one of our research studies, also known as clinical trials. Some MSK clinical trials give you access to new treatments that are not yet available at most hospitals.
MSK’s Pancreatic Cyst Surveillance Program is one of the largest in the country. We monitor more than 2,000 people with pancreatic cysts through the program. Each year, MSK sees more than 300 new patients who have a pancreas cyst.
Please choose from the list below to learn more about our pancreatic cancer experts. We have information about their education, training, board certifications, current publications, and specialty.
Pathology
Assistant Attending Physician
Surgery
![Memorial Sloan Kettering surgeon Vinod Balachandran](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/107173/1x1/balachandran-vinod_200713_05-1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Associate Attending Surgeon
![Michael I. D'Angelica, MD, FACS](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/148/image/d-angelica-michael-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Enid A. Haupt Chair in Surgery; Director, Hepatopancreatobiliary Fellowship Program; Director, Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program; Vice Chair, Education
![Memorial Sloan Kettering Surgeon Jeffrey Drebin](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/137215/1x1/drebin_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Chair, Department of Surgery; Murray F. Brennan Chair in Surgery
![Memorial Sloan Kettering surgeon Kevin Soares](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/182644/1x1/soarses_190606_08_1200x1200_0.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Surgeon
![Memorial Sloan Kettering surgeon Alice Wei](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/170617/1x1/wei_190121_22_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Co-Director, Surgical Initiatives, David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research; Associate Professor of Sugery, Weill-Cornell School of Medicine
![William R. Jarnagin, MD, FACS](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/301/image/jarnagin-william-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Chief, Hepatobiliary Service; Leslie Blumgart Chair in Surgery
![Memorial Sloan Kettering surgeon T. Peter Kingham](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/336/1x1/kingham_180608_04_1200x1200_2.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Director, Global Cancer Disparities Initiatives
Radiology
![Memorial Sloan Kettering radiologist Shannan Dickinson](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/190189/1x1/dickinson-shannan_19082_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Radiologist
![Richard Kinh Gian Do, MD, PhD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/170/image/do-kinh-gian-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Director, Research, Body Imaging Service and Director, Hepatobiliary Radiology
![Memorial Sloan Kettering radiologist Maria El Homsi](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/210988/1x1/el-homsi-maria_200824_11_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Assistant Attending Radiologist
![Tae Hyung Kim](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/266321/1x1/kim-hyung-tae-221206-008_rt-1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Radiologist
![Memorial Sloan Kettering radiologist Maria LaGratta](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/131038/1x1/lagratta_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Vice Chair, Regional Care Network, Department of Radiology; Director of Radiology, MSK Monmouth; Interim Director of Radiology, MSK Basking Ridge
![Memorial Sloan Kettering diagnostic radiologist Peter Sawan](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/141904/1x1/sawan_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Radiologist
Minimally Invasive Surgery
![Memorial Sloan Kettering surgeon Vinod Balachandran](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/107173/1x1/balachandran-vinod_200713_05-1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Associate Attending Surgeon
![Michael I. D'Angelica, MD, FACS](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/148/image/d-angelica-michael-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Enid A. Haupt Chair in Surgery; Director, Hepatopancreatobiliary Fellowship Program; Director, Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program; Vice Chair, Education
![William R. Jarnagin, MD, FACS](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/301/image/jarnagin-william-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Chief, Hepatobiliary Service; Leslie Blumgart Chair in Surgery
![Memorial Sloan Kettering surgeon T. Peter Kingham](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/336/1x1/kingham_180608_04_1200x1200_2.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Director, Global Cancer Disparities Initiatives
![Memorial Sloan Kettering surgeon Kevin Soares](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/182644/1x1/soarses_190606_08_1200x1200_0.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Surgeon
![Memorial Sloan Kettering surgeon Alice Wei](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/170617/1x1/wei_190121_22_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Co-Director, Surgical Initiatives, David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research; Associate Professor of Sugery, Weill-Cornell School of Medicine
Gastroenterology and Preventive Oncology
![Memorial Sloan Kettering gastroenterologist Hans Gerdes](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/219/1x1/gerdes_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering gastroenterologist Makoto Nishimura](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/157636/1x1/nishimura_180423_03_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering gastroenterologist Mark Schattner](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/559/1x1/schattner_180912_13_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Chief, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Service
![Memorial Sloan Kettering gastroenterologist Pari Shah](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/18020/image/pari-shah-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Associate Attending Physician
![Moshe Shike, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/579/image/111107-shike-072-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Attending Physician
Medical Oncology
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Eileen O'Reilly](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/461/1x1/o-reilly_161213_15_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Winthrop Rockefeller Endowed Chair of Medical Oncology; Chair, Human Research Protection Program and Institutional Review Board; Co-Director, Medical Initiatives, David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research; Section Head, Hepatopancreaticobi
![Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/24/1x1/abou-alfa-ghassan-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Attending Physician
![Anna M. Varghese, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/19776/image/varghese-anna-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Associate Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering Medical Oncologist Sree B. Chalasani](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/18314/image/sree-chalasani-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Associate Attending Physician
![Geoffrey Y. Ku, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/17546/image/geoffrey-ku-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Associate Attending Physician
![Andrew S. Epstein, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/17500/image/epstein-andrew-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Associate Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering Medical Oncologist Fiyinfolu Balogun](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/209461/1x1/balogun-fiyinfolu_200818_02_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Louise Connell](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/165988/1x1/connell-louise_181005_14_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Physician
![Samuel Cytryn](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/292766/1x1/cytryn-samuel-231219-06_rt-1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Physician
![Avni Desai, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/17654/image/desai-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Associate Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Luis Diaz](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/137116/1x1/diaz-luis-220524-054-v2_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Head of the Division of Solid Tumor Oncology; Grayer Family Chair
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Imane El Dika](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/164074/1x1/el-dika-2c-imane_14_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Michael Foote](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/246988/1x1/foote-michael-220602-01_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Karuna Ganesh](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/133807/1x1/ganesh_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Ping Gu](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/159925/1x1/gu_180619_08_lowres_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Associate Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Smita Joshi](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/182113/1x1/joshi-smitha_190916_13_1200x1200_0.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Danny Khalil](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/141679/1x1/kahlil_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Physician
![Medical oncologist Jia Li](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/121903/1x1/li_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Associate Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Maliha Nusrat](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/188545/1x1/nusrat-maliha_191217_14_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Wungki Park](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/163444/1x1/park_180918_02_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Physician
![MSK medical oncologist Nitya Raj](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/124600/1x1/raj_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Clinical Director, Gastrointestinal Oncology Service; Medical Site Director, Laurence S. Rockefeller Outpatient Pavilion at 53rd Street
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Devika Rao](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/178384/1x1/rao-devika_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Physician
![Marina Shcherba, DO](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/35184/image/shcherba-140813-11-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Associate Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Ryan Sugarman](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179542/1x1/sugarman-ryan_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Medical Site Director, MSK Nassau; Medical Director, Strategic Partnerships
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Jessica Yang](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/180586/1x1/yang_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Physician
![Kenneth H. Yu, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/681/image/yu-kenneth-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Associate Attending Physician
![Medical oncologist Alice Zervoudakis](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/122686/1x1/zervoudakis_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Clinical Director, Gastrointestinal Oncology Service
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Neil Segal](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/568/1x1/segal-neil-211210-009-1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Research Director, Division of Gastrointestinal Oncology
![Leonard Saltz, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/546/image/saltz-leonard-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Executive Director for Clinical Value & Sustainability; Head, Colorectal Oncology Section
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Diane Reidy Lagunes](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/518/1x1/180221-km-msk-lagunes-26r_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Vice Chair of Oncology Operations, Regional Care Network; Past President, MSK Medical Staff; Creator and Host, Cancer Straight Talk Podcast
![David Paul Kelsen, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/326/image/kelsen-david-paul-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Edward S. Gordon Chair in Medical Oncology
![David H. Ilson, MD, PhD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/295/image/ilson-david-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Zoe Goldberg](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/236/1x1/goldberg_4116_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Associate Attending Physician
![Parisa Momtaz, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/109013/1x1/momtaz_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Medical Director, Strategic Partnerships; Clinical Director, Melanoma Service
Radiation Therapy
![MSK radiation oncologist John Cuaron](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/106627/1x1/cuaron_150708_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Lead Service Chief, External Beam Radiotherapy Service: Regional Care Network
![Jacques Beauvais](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/255571/1x1/beauvais-jacques-220927-012_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Physician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering radiation oncologist Linda Chen](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/163624/1x1/chen_180904_07_1200x1200r.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Radiation Oncologist
![Memorial Sloan Kettering radiation oncologist J. Isabelle Choi](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/183961/1x1/choi-j-isabelle_200122_24-1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Radiation Oncologist
![Memorial Sloan Kettering radiation oncologist Christopher Crane](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/123991/1x1/crane_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Attending Radiation Oncologist
![Memorial Sloan Kettering radiation oncologist David Guttmann](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/163891/1x1/guttmann_180905_12_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Associate Attending Radiation Oncologist
![Carla Hajj, Memorial Sloan Kettering radiation oncologist](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/127558/1x1/haji-carla_210616_002-1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Associate Program Director and Medical Student Clerkship Director, Radiation Oncology Department, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
![Marsha Reyngold, MD, PhD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/34968/image/reyngold-140828-10-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Assistant Attending Radiation Oncologist
![MSK radiation oncologist Paul Romesser](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/126850/1x1/romesser_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Director of Colorectal and Anal Cancer, Department of Radiation Oncology
![Memorial Sloan Kettering radiation oncologist Diana Roth O'Brien](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/207706/1x1/roth-o-brien-diana_200817_10_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Radiation Oncologist
![Radiation oncologist Daniel Shasha](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/145171/1x1/msk5425_daniel_shasha_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Attending Radiation Oncologist
![Memorial Sloan Kettering radiation oncologist Jacob Y. Shin](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/181312/1x1/shin-jacob_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Radiation Oncologist
![Memorial Sloan Kettering radiation oncologist Vonetta Williams](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/236824/1x1/williams-vonetta_210831_11_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Radiation Oncologist
![Abraham J. Wu, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/671/1x1/headshot-2020-1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Vice Chair, Graduate Medical Education Committee
![Richard M. Gewanter, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/223/image/gewanter-richard-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Associate Attending Radiation Oncologist
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