Dr. Thomas Rakowski

Ping Chi is an Oncologist in New York, New York. Dr. Chi is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor. Her top areas of expertise are Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor, Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor, Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma, Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma, and Endoscopy.

William Tap is a Hematologist Oncology specialist and a Hematologist in New York, New York. Dr. Tap is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma, Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor, Angiosarcoma, Tissue Biopsy, and Liver Embolization.

Gulam Manji, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Manji received his M.D. degree from Ross University School of Medicine in 2009 and completed his residency in internal medicine at Albany Medical College. He then completed his fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, where his clinical focus was on the treatment of gastrointestinal malignancies, melanoma, and sarcoma under the mentorship of Dr. Gary Schwartz, Chief of Hematology and Oncology.Dr. Manji conducts translational research with the overall goal to developing new treatments for cancer. His focus is in gastrointestinal malignancies, particularly pancreas adenocarcinoma, on which he is conducting preclinical combination immunotherapy studies on genetically engineered mice with pancreas cancer in the Olive laboratory at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. The combination immunotherapy preclinical proposal received the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology-2015. The goal of these preclinical studies is to bring promising new therapies to the clinic in an early phase clinical trials Dr. Manji's research career in identifying new genes and their implication in disease has led to numerous key publications and an issued patent.Dr. Manji cares for patients with gastrointestinal malignancies, with a particular focus on pancreatic and liver cancers, and sarcomas. He is the principal investigator of an investigator-initiated multicenter clinical trial that he wrote with Dr. Gary Schwartz in sarcoma and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors and is responsible for clinical trials conducted in liver, bile duct, gallbladder, and pancreas cancers at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Manji is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Pancreatic Cancer, Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor, and Familial Pancreatic Cancer.