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Associate Professor
University of North Dakota / Sanford Clinic
Fargo, North Dakota, United States
Sabha Ganai, MD, PhD, MPH, FACS, FSSO is a Surgical Oncologist, ethicist, and cancer disparities researcher at Sanford Health, a large 44-hospital system that serves the Northern Plains states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. She is the Director of Surgical Education and an Associate Professor of Surgery at University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences and is a Clinical Investigator at Sanford Research. She is board-certified in public health, general surgery, and complex general surgical oncology. While she has a broad background in the applied sciences, her research efforts have been in the scope of population health, examining disparities in cancer staging and oncologic outcomes based on provider density and distance from high-volume centers, with a focus of studying specific barriers for rural populations. She also performs translational research focusing on developing novel kirigami polymers for perioperative drug delivery. She was trained in Surgical Ethics at the MacLean Center, and has prior publications on the topic of Informed Consent and Disclosure of Surgical Experience. Dr. Ganai received the 2015-2017 Health Care Disparities Award from the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract and the 2016 Michael Zinner Fellowship from the Surgical Outcomes Club. She is a recipient of the 2017 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award. She is on the Editorial Board for Annals of Surgical Oncology and is a member of the Commission on Cancer. She can be followed on twitter at @drsabha.
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Friday, March 11, 2022
10:46 AM – 11:15 AM CST