Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Chandrajit P. Raut, M.D., M.Sc. is a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the BWH Distinguished Chair in Surgical Oncology, and Surgery Director of the Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he completed his general surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and surgical oncology fellowship at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Dr. Raut specializes in the multidisciplinary care of patients with soft tissue sarcoma. He received two multi-PI R01 grants evaluating an innovative drug-eluting film to be placed in the surgical bed to reduce tumor local recurrence rates. He was co-PI on a multi-institutional phase II clinic trial evaluating 5 years of adjuvant imatinib for primary GIST, co-investigator on an international phase III randomized clinical trial evaluating the use of preoperative radiation therapy for retroperitoneal sarcomas, and a member of the NIH/NCI The Cancer Genome Atlas Sarcoma Working Group. Dr. Raut has authored over 280 papers and over 30 book chapters. He serves as Section Editor for sarcoma in the journals Cancer and Surgical Oncology Insight.