Cancer Center Doctors
Message From the Chairman
What does extraordinary cancer care mean? For us, at The Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, extraordinary care is more than a catchy slogan. It's an urgent call to action.
It means not only addressing the needs of our patients, but effectively anticipating those needs. It means assembling the best oncologists in the country, who, as part of a multidisciplinary team, focus entirely on your health. And it means bringing you today's most effective tools to fight your cancer - whether it's enrolling you in a promising clinical trial, setting up a Tumor Bank that tracks treatments that work for specific DNA, or enabling you to share your experiences through our Web site journal.
Each day our esteemed physicians work together to bring patients advanced cutting-edge treatments and innovative basic and clinical research - all within a compassionate environment. With experience at some of the most prestigious cancer centers in the United States - including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas - our physicians are among the nation's most influential cancer care leaders.
Each week approximately 150 new patients come to The Cancer Center, some from our area, others from different parts of the country. They come to seek the expertise of our doctors. And it is through our doctors' leadership and commitment, along with the hundreds of others who are involved with your care, that we commit to provide you with:
- multidisciplinary care from teams of disease-specific experts
- personalized treatment that meets your individual biologic, social, and emotional needs
- innovative research that brings tomorrow's novel research breakthroughs to patients today
- superior outcomes that improve survival rates through state-of-the-art treatments and prevention
- patient satisfaction that exceeds patients' needs and expectations in a cost-effective manner
As you explore our Web site and especially this section, you will no doubt come to realize what many already know. The Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center is transforming the cancer care experience one patient at a time by reaching for and delivering a new standard of care: care that is extraordinary.
Division Chiefs
Division Chiefs
Chairman and Executive Administrative
Director, The Cancer Center
Andrew L. Pecora, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Vice Chairman, The Cancer Center
Daniel Smith, M.D.
Deputy Director, The Cancer Center
Andre Goy, M.D.
Blood and Marrow Stem Cell
Transplantation Program
Scott Rowley, M.D.
Director
Breast Oncology
Stanley Waintraub, M.D.
Division Chief
Gastrointestinal Oncology
Andrew Jennis, M.D.
Co-Division Chief
Donald McCain, M.D., Ph.D.
Co-Division Chief
Geriatric Oncology
Richard Rosenbluth, M.D.
Division Chief
Gynecologic Oncology
Daniel Smith, M.D.
Division Chief
Head and Neck Oncology
Christopher Shaari, M.D.
Division Chief
Leukemia
Stuart Goldberg, M.D.
Division Chief
Lymphoma
Andre Goy, M.D.
Division Chief
Multiple Myeloma
David Siegel, PhD, M.D.
Division Chief
Neuro-Oncology
Mark Pascal, M.D.
Co-Division Chief
Viswanathan Rajaraman, M.D.
Co-Division Chief
Research
Robert Korngold, Ph.D.
Division Chief
Skin and Sarcoma Cancer
James C. Wittig, M.D.
Division Chief
Thoracic Oncology
Harry D. Harper, M.D.
Co-Division Chief
Urologic Oncology
Ihor Sawczuk, M.D.
Co-Division Chief
Program Directors
Program Directors
Aphersis Program
Michele Donato, M.D.
Director
Brachytherapy
Loren Godfrey, M.D.
Director
Cancer Center Laboratory
Stanley E. Waintraub, M.D.
Director
Clinical Research
Jonathan Walland, LL.B., M.B.A.
Director
Laboratory Research
Thea Friedman, M.D.
Director
Radiation Oncology
Anthony Ingenito, M.D.
Director
Radiation Oncology
Mehmet Tuna, R.T.
Director of Technical Services
Radiation Oncology
Joseph Hanley, Ph.D.
Director of Medical Physics
Scientific Lab Director
K. Stephen Suh Ph.D.
Director
Tissue Bank
Andre Goy, M.D.
Director
Cancer Center Staff Doctors
Cancer Center Doctors
Blood and Marrow Stem Cell
Transplantation
Hormoz Ashtyani, M.D.
William Boss, M.D.
Medina Dadurian, DM.D., FAGD
Michele Donato, M.D.
Carol Fehmian, M.D.
David Feit, M.D.
David Felig, M.D.
Stuart Goldberg, M.D.
Deborah Hutter, M.D.
Mary Ann Michelis, M.D.
Charles Moss, M.D.
David Orr, DO
Melvin Polkow, M.D.
Emanuele Santomauro, M.D.
Rani Sebti, M.D.
David Siegel, M.D.
Howard Weizman, M.D.
Breast Oncology
Douglas Benson, M.D.
Deborah Capko, M.D.
Richard Davies, M.D.
Joseph Manno, M.D.
Donald McCain, M.D.
Donna T. McNamara, M.D.
Paul Parker, M.D.
Stephen Pereira, M.D.
Patrick Toth, M.D.
Hakan Usal, M.D.
Mario Verna, M.D.
Robert Wallerstein, M.D.
Richard Winters, M.D.
Gastrointestinal Oncology
Garth Ballantyne, M.D.
Douglas Benson, M.D.
Vivian Bethala, M.D.
Richard Chessler, M.D.
Richard Davies, M.D.
Elie Elmann, M.D.
Peter Fan, M.D.
David Feit, M.D.
David Felig, M.D.
Loren Godfrey, M.D.
Rosario Ligesti, M.D.
Joseph Manno, M.D.
Donald McCain, M.D.
George Nikias, M.D.
Stephen Pereira, M.D.
Stephen Peters, M.D.
John W. Poole, M.D.
Charles Riccobono, M.D.
Vincent Rigoglioso, M.D.
Mark Tanchel, M.D.
Patrick Toth, M.D.
Robert Wallerstein, M.D.
Geriatric Oncology
Richard Rosenbluth, M.D.
Jose Contreras, M.D.
Daniel Smith, M.D.
Gynecologic Oncology
Loren Godfrey, M.D.
Babak Litkouhi, M.D.
Donna T. McNamara, M.D.
Thomas Selvaggi, M.D.
Robert Wallerstein, M.D.
Head and Neck Oncology
Kenneth Colameo, M.D.
John DeMeritt, M.D.
Loren Godfrey, M.D.
David Goldberg, M.D.
Peter Hannoush, M.D.
Masayuki Inouye, M.D.
Michael Katz, M.D.
Ronald Low, M.D.
Hiten Malde, M.D.
David Panush, M.D.
Rita S. Patel, M.D.
Sean Pierce, M.D.
Arie Rosen, M.D.
Hakan Usal, M.D.
Mark Wiesen, M.D.
Leukemia
Hormoz Ashtyani, M.D.
Pritish Bhattacharyya, M.D.
Tatyana Feldman, M.D.
Roxana Kline, M.D.
Mary Ann Michelis, M.D.
Emanuele Santomauro
Thomas Selvaggi, M.D.
Howard Weizman, M.D.
Lymphoma
Pritish Bhattacharyya, M.D.
Tatyana Feldman, M.D.
Roxana Kline, M.D.
Mary Ann Michelis, M.D.
Rani Sebti, M.D.
Thomas Selvaggi, M.D.
David Siegel, M.D.
Neuro-oncology
John DeMeritt, M.D.
Lyle Dennis, M.D.
Damon Fellman, M.D.
Peter Hannoush, M.D.
Patrice Hassoun, M.D.
Anthony Ingenito, M.D.
George Kaptain, M.D.
Hiten Malde, M.D.
Frank Moore, M.D.
Rajeev Motiwala, M.D.
David Panush, M.D.
Rita Patel, M.D.
Sean Pierce, M.D.
Viswanathan Rajaramen, M.D.
Patrick Roth, M.D.
Roy Vingan, M.D.
Research
Thea Friedman, M.D.
Ossama Ikladios, M.D.
Ravi Munver, M.D.
Thomas Selvaggi, M.D.
David Siegel, M.D.
Denise P. Simmons, Ph.D.
Knight Steel, M.D.
Skin and Sarcoma Cancer
Robin Ashinoff, M.D.
Douglas Benson, M.D.
William Boss, M.D.
Gary Brauner, M.D.
Richard Davies, M.D.
Peter Fan, M.D.
Glen Gejerman, M.D.
David Goldberg, M.D.
Donald McCain, M.D.
Stephen Nychay, M.D.
Charles Moss, M.D.
Andrew L. Pecora, M.D.
Allen Sapadin, M.D.
Richard Winters, M.D.
James C. Wittig, M.D.
Thoracic Oncology
Harry Agress, M.D.
Kourosh Asgarian, M.D.
Fariborz Ashtyani, M.D.
Hormoz Ashtyani, M.D.
Elie Elmann, M.D.
Loren Godfrey, M.D.
Deborah Hutter, M.D.
Ossama Ikladios, M.D.
Anthony Ingenito, M.D.
Robert Krugman, M.D.
David Orr, DO
Melvin Polkow, M.D.
Emanuele Santomauro, M.D.
John Villa, M.D.
Urologic Oncology
Mutahar Ahmed, M.D.
Robert Alter, M.D.
Kevin Basralian, M.D.
Michael Philip Esposito, M.D.
Debra Fromer, M.D.
Glen Gejerman, M.D.
Richard Garden, M.D.
Martin Goldstein, M.D.
Terry Hensle, M.D.
Pedram Ilbeigi, D.O.
Vincent Lanteri, M.D.
Stuart Levey, M.D.
Ravi Munver, M.D.
John Scheuch, M.D.
Sergey Rome, M.D.
Jay Rosen, M.D.
Gene S. Rosenberg, M.D.
Andrew Siegel, M.D.
Jack Vitenson, M.D.
Richard Watson, M.D.