Attending Surgeon
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Surgery
New York, NY, United States
As Chief of the Colorectal Surgery Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering since 2012, Dr. Julio Garcia-Aguilar leads a team of seven surgeons and directs the team’s clinical and research programs. He is Co-Director of the Colorectal Disease Management Team and Director of MSK’s Colorectal Cancer Research Center. From 2008 to 2012, he was Chair of the Department of Surgery at the City of Hope National Medical Center. Prior to that, he served on the faculties of Complutense University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of California, San Francisco, and was Surgeon-in-Chief of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has coauthored 160 research articles and 80 review articles/chapters, has served on the editorial boards of the journals Annals of Surgical Oncology and Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, and was President of the Research Foundation of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.