Alexander swistel biography

Learn more about Alexander Swistel, specializing in Surgery at the Mount Sinai Health System....

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Swistel, M.D. is Chief, Breast Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and is Director of the Weill Cornell Breast Center. A nationally-renowned breast surgeon, Dr. Swistel pioneered many of the newest advances in minimally-invasive breast cancer treatment.

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Biography.

Learn more about Alexander Swistel, specializing in Surgery at the Mount Sinai Health System.

He received his medical degree from The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and has been in practice 42 years.

Alexander Swistel, MD is a general surgeon in New York, NY and has over 49 years of experience in the medical field.

Swistel graduated from Harvard University and received his medical degree from Brown University School of Medicine in 1975. He completed his surgical residency at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and a two-year surgical oncology fellowship at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

At the completion of his fellowship, Dr. Swistel returned to St. Luke's as an Attending Surgeon and subsequently became the Chief of Breast Surgery.

In 1996, he was recruited by New York-Presbyterian Hospital to strengthen the breast service and joined the attending staff in surgery.

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