Rohit Chandwani

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Rohit Chandwani
Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation Office

(212) 746-2127

1283 York Avenue 9th Floor New York, NY 10065
About

Rohit Chandwani

Rohit Chandwani, M.D., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medicine. A board-certified surgical oncologist, Dr. Chandwani is a surgeon in the Section of Liver Transplantation & Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery with a specific clinical focus in pancreatic cancer and metastatic colorectal cancer. He also has significant clinical expertise in the care of patients with pancreatic cysts, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, and intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Dr. Chandwani received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 2001 and earned his medical degree at the Yale University School of Medicine in 2005. He then trained in General Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Medical Center and in Complex General Surgical Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he served as Chief Fellow for the Department of Surgery. A surgeon-scientist, Dr. Chandwani is also the Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he studies the epigenetic dysregulation of pancreatic cancer. Prior to his research at Cornell, Dr. Chandwani earned his Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University in the laboratory of Alexander Tarakhovsky and was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Steven D. Leach in the David M. Rubinstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He has been the recipient of funding from the National Institutes of Health, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), and the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network for his ongoing research program into the epigenetic targeting of cancer. More information about his research can be found at http://www.chandwanilab.org.
Primary Specialty

Surgeon

Practice Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation
Gender Male
Accepting New Patients
Insurances Accepted Healthfirst, Affinity Health Plan, CIGNA, Rockefeller University - CoreSource, Medicaid, GHI, UnitedHealthcare, Emblem/Hip, VNSNY CHOICE, Fidelis Care, Medicare, Aetna [Weill Cornell Employee Plan], Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Oxford Health Plans, March Vision, AETNA, United Empire, Emblem Select Care, Amida Care, Aetna - NYP, Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield Healthplus, Health Insurance Plan of NY (HIP), United Healthcare, Emblem/GHI
Office Name Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation
Languages English
Services Rohit Chandwani provides surgery in New York, NY. The most common types of surgeons are: General, Cardiovascular, Otolaryngology, Neurological, Reconstructive, Neonatal and Orthopedic.

Please call Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation at (212) 746-2127 to schedule an appointment in New York, NY or to get more information.
Additional Services Oncological Surgeon
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