Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital welcomes board-certified and fellowship-trained breast cancer surgeon Eleni Anastasia Tousimis, M.D.

Dr. Tousimis will also serve as the Medical Director of the Scully-Welsh Cancer Center.

Dr. Tousimis earned her medical degree from Albany Medical College in New York. She completed the General Surgery Residency Program at Guthrie Clinic in Pennsylvania. She completed her Breast Oncology Surgery Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and Surgical Oncology Fellowship in minimally invasive techniques at the European Institute of Oncology in Italy. Dr. Tousimis completed her MBA at MIT in Boston.

Dr. Tousimis has been a practicing breast surgeon for the past twenty years. She was initially an associate Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell New York Presbyterian Hospital, then a Professor of Surgery and Director of the Breast Cancer Center at Georgetown University hospital. She was the former President of the American Medical Women’s Association.