Dr. Steven N. Hochwald is the Director of the Mount Sinai Cancer Center, Chief of Surgical Oncology and Associate Director of the Mount Sinai-Columbia University affiliation at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
A leading pancreatic and gastrointestinal surgical oncologist, and an avid clinician and researcher, Dr. Hochwald’s has focused on technical advances in minimally invasive upper gastrointestinal surgeries and on developing new targets and agents for the treatment of pancreatic, esophageal, gastric and other gastroesophageal malignancies. He has performed more than 1,000 minimally invasive resections of the esophagus, stomach and pancreas, using both laparoscopic and robotic approaches. He has extensively taught minimally invasive upper gastrointestinal surgery to surgical residents, surgical oncology fellows and faculty members from around the United States and abroad.
Dr. Hochwald’s work has been published in over 250 original medical papers, 40 book chapters and invited manuscripts, and over 19 scholarly reviews. Dr. Hochwald has also led numerous research studies, which aim to help patients with complicated cancers. In addition, he has edited textbooks on minimally invasive upper gastrointestinal surgery and on comprehensive reviews of surgical oncology. Finally, he is a co-editor of the leading textbook for practicing surgeons in the United States: Mastery of Surgery.
A graduate of New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Hochwald received post-graduate training in Surgical Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and completed an oncology research fellowship at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Surgical Metabolism Laboratory. He also earned an M.B.A. at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) School of Management and an executive degree in Managing Health Care Delivery at Harvard Business School Executive Education.
Dr. Hochwald holds several medical patents, and has served for many years on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) panels that develops guidelines for cancer care. He is also a member of various leading medical associations such as the American Surgical Association, the Southern Surgical Association, the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, the American College of Surgeons, the Society of Surgical Oncology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Association for Academic Surgery, the Society of University Surgeons, American Association of Cancer Research and many others.
Areas of Clinical Interest:
Stomach, esophageal and pancreatic neoplasms, small bowel and colorectal cancer, adrenal and endocrine malignancies, spleen and retroperitoneal tumors. Multidisciplinary cancer care, clinical trial development and novel molecular targeted and therapeutic drug development.
*This physician is employed by Mount Sinai Medical Center