Department of Surgery

Atilla Soran, MD, MPH, FACS

  • Clinical Professor of Surgery
  • Director, International Breast Fellowship Program
  • Director, Lymphedema Program
  • Director, Clinical Research for Breast Diseases

Education & Training

  • MD, University of Ankara
  • General Surgery Residency, Department of Surgery NHS Ankara Numune Teaching & Research Hospital
  • MPH, Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh

Representative Publications

Dr. Soran's publications can be reviewed through PubMed.

Research, Clinical, and/or Academic Interests

  • Surgery in metastatic breast cancer
  • Lymphedema prevention and treatment
  • Optical Biopsy for breast lesions
  • Biomarker search for early breast cancer
  • Nomograms for prediction non-sentinel lymph node biopsy positivity, residual disease
  • Nomograms for lymphedema
  • Prediction model for predicting response to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy
  • Design of randomized studies for breast diseases

Faculty by divisions

Breast Surgical Oncology