One of America's Top Doctors - Castle Connolly Top Doctors

Bret Taback, MD

Breast & Soft Tissue Surgery
One of America's Top Doctors - Castle Connolly Top Doctors
Specialties
Breast & Soft Tissue Surgery, Surgery, Cancer Care, morespecialties

Locations and Appointments


CUIMC/Herbert Irving Pavilion

161 Fort Washington Avenue
New York, NY 10032
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Insurances Accepted


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  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Special Needs
  • POS
  • EPO
  • Great West (National)
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • PPO
  • HMO
  • PPO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • Select Care (Exchange)
  • Vytra
  • EPO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • HMO
  • PPO
  • POS
  • ConnectiCare
  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Essential Plan
  • PPO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • HMO
  • EPO
  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Leaf (Exchange)
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • Local 1199
  • MagnaCare
  • Traditional Medicare
  • Railroad
  • Multiplan
  • HMO
  • Essential Plan
  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Special Needs
  • PPO
  • HMO
  • POS
  • Columbia University Employee Plan
  • Empire Plan
  • Compass (Exchange)
  • Oxford Liberty
  • Oxford Freedom
  • Oxford HMO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • Medicaid (Community Plan)
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • World Trade Center Health Plan

About Bret Taback, MD


Board Certifications

  • Surgery

Specialties & Expertise

  • Breast Cancer
  • Breast Cancer Surgery
  • Breast Disease
  • Mastectomies
  • Melanoma
  • Melanoma Surgery
  • Sarcoma
  • Sentinel Node Biopsy For Breast
  • Specialist in Breast Cancer Surgery
  • Specialist in Melanoma Surgery

EDUCATION

  • Fellowship: John Wayne Cancer Institute , Santa Monica CA
  • Residency: Brown University Rhode Island Hospital
  • Medical School: Baystate Medical College - Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Residency: Northwestern University Hospital
  • Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

LEADERSHIP, TITLES & POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor of Surgery at CUMC
  • Director, Breast Surgery Fellowship

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS

  • NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
  • NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital
  • NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester

AWARDS & HONORS

  • Member, International Scientific Committee, The 4th International Sentinel Node Congress, Los Angeles, CA (2004)
  • Co-Chairman, The 3rd International Conference on Circulating Nucleic Acids in Plasma and Serum & Serum Proteomics (CNAPS III), Santa Monica, CA (2003)
  • Young Investigator Award, The 3rd International Sentinel Node Congress, Yokohama, Japan (2002)
  • Merit Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Orlando, FL (2002)
  • Elected to Associate Member Council, American Association for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, PA (2001-2004)
  • Scholarship Award to attend Epidemiology and Biostatistics Conference, Berlex Oncology Foundation, Hackensack, NJ (2001)
  • Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer Fellowship Award, Santa Monica, CA (2000)
  • Merit Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology, New Orleans, LA (2000)

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