Director of Esophageal Surgery
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
Dr. Daniela Molena is a graduate of the University of Padova Medical School in Italy. She completed residencies in general surgery both at the University of Padova and at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY. She completed a gastrointestinal research fellowship at the University of California in San Francisco and cardiothoracic clinical fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and Weill Cornell Medical College. She joined Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2015 to serve as the Director of the Esophageal Program within the Thoracic Surgery Division.
Dr. Molena has authored over 100 manuscripts and several book chapters. She is part of the Editorial Board of several renown Journals. She is a Member of the American Surgical Association, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, Society for Surgeons of the Alimentary Tract, American Association for Thoracic Surgery and International Society for the Diseases of the Esophagus. She holds leadership positions in several of these surgical societies and she is President of the Women in Thoracic Surgery.