Ryan Carnero

Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum, MD, is Chief of the Gynecology Service in the Department of Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) in New York, holder of the Founder’s Chair in Gynecologic Oncology, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Weill Cornell Medical College. A graduate in medicine of the American University of Beirut, Professor Abu-Rustum completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Greater Baltimore Medical Center and a fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at MSK. The clinical research focuses mainly on outcomes after surgery for gynecologic malignancies.

The academic and research contributions of Professor Abu-Rustum are extensive, including:

• Surgical innovation: Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery (2002–2014) and Vice-Chairman for Technology Development of the MSK Department of Surgery (2012–2023), with a large body of work on laparoscopic surgery and sentinel lymph node mapping in endometrial and cervical cancer.
• Clinical guidelines: Member since 2002 of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) panels on cervical cancer, cervical cancer screening, and endometrial cancer and uterine sarcoma, and member of the NCCN Guidelines Editorial Board.
• International leadership: Vice President of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society (2016–2018), Council member of SGO, IGCS and ESGO, and Section Editor for Gynecologic Oncology of the Annals of Surgical Oncology.

Professor Abu-Rustum’s work has been recognised with the SGO Innovation Award, the AGO Austria Wertheim Award, the IGCS Excellence in Teaching Award and the NCCN Excellence in Engagement Award.