Don S. Dizon, MD, FACP - Brown Medical School/Women & Infants' Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island
Dr. Dizon is a 1991 graduate of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He trained in Internal Medicine at Yale New-Haven Hospital and in Medical Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center where he received a Career Development Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology for work on platinum drug resistance. He later joined the Developmental Therapeutics faculty and Gynecology Disease Management Team of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2003 he left New York City and assumed his current role as the director of Medical Oncology for the Program in Women’s Oncology of Women & Infants’ Hospital of Rhode Island. In 2005 he helped establish the state’s first Center for Sexuality, Intimacy, and Fertility for women with cancer. In 2005 he was elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He also serves as Medical Director of the Program’s Integrative Care Program. Nationally, he continues to pursue research in the novel treatments of both breast and gynecological cancers and is active in the Gynecologic Oncology Group, serving on Phase I, Developmental Therapeutics, and Cervix committees. Currently he is the President of the National Consortium of Breast Centers.
Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum, MD - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum, M.D. is Associate Attending and Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery, and Resident and Medical Student Education, Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He completed his Internship and Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Baltimore Maryland and a Fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York He is in full-time practice of gynecologic oncology, and his clinical research interest is in gynecologic cancer surgery, including surgery for ovarian, uterine, and cervical cancers.
