Paul Sugarbaker, MD, FACS, FRCS

Clinical Expertise
Paul Sugarbaker, MD is a mentor, investigator, and has lectured extensively, both nationally and internationally, earning numerous awards and citations. He is best known for his expertise in gastrointestinal oncology and colorectal cancer surgery and in rare diseases such as pseudomyxoma peritonei, peritoneal mesothelioma, abdominal sarcomas, and peritoneal carcinomatosis.

Dr. Sugarbaker has pioneered specialty treatment procedures such as cytoreductive surgery with heated intraoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy and hyperthermia treatments using the Thermotron RF-8. He has published more than 780 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, numerous book chapters and textbooks. The textbook on sarcoma surgery has been translated into 5 languages.

Practice Focus

• Gastrointestinal surgical oncology

Education:

• BS in Chemistry from Wheaton College, Illinois (1963)
• MD from Cornell University Medical College in New York (1967)
• MS in Basic Sciences from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1978)

Residency

• Surgical Residency Program, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston (1967-1973)
• Surgical Chief Resident, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston (1973)

Fellowship

• Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (1973-1976)

Honors, Awards & Society Memberships

• Member of the American College of Surgeons
• Member of University Surgeons
• Member of International Association for Enterostomal Therapy
• Member of American Surgical Association
• Founding Member for International Society of Regional Cancer Therapy and Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
• E. T. Krementz Award for the best research development in 1997
• Awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa at the Universite de Liege, Belgium in March 1999
• Fellow ad eundem of The Royal College of Surgeons of England in September 1999
• Distinguished Service Award by the American Society of Abdominal Surgeons in May 2001
• Fellow at The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Scotland in November 2003
• Merium Ann Simone Distinguished Service Award - International Spirit of Life Foundation at Washington, DC in June 2006
• Honorary Professor at Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina in November 2006
• Member of four different editorial boards

Additional Training, Education & Research

• 1976-1986 Senior Investigator of the Surgery Branch at the National Cancer Institute, NIH in Bethesda, Maryland
• 1981-1986 served as Head of the Colorectal Cancer Section at the National Cancer Institute, NIH in Bethesda, Maryland
• 1986 appointed as the Director of Surgical Oncology at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia
• 1989-1993 Medical Director of the Washington Cancer Institute
• 1993-present Director, Program in Peritoneal Surface Malignancy at the Washington Cancer Institute