Renowned pancreatic cancer clinician and scientist Nipun B. Merchant, M.D., is joining the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center as Chief Surgical Officer and Director of Surgical Oncology Research Programs. Merchant comes to the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and UHealth – University of Miami Health System from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he has been the Director of the Vanderbilt Pancreas Center, Chief of GI Surgical Oncology and Co-Leader of the GI Oncology Program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Comprehensive Cancer Center.Merchant will also take on the newly created position of Vice Chair of Surgical Oncologic Services and Academic Affairs within the Department of Surgery and will be the Chief of Surgical Oncology at University of Miami Hospital as well as Chief Surgical Officer at UMHC/Sylvester. In addition, he will serve as Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology.
Before joining Vanderbilt University Medical Center, he completed a surgical oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and was assistant professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University Medical School.
