Dr. Rasa Zarnegar is an Assistant Professor of Surgery (Endocrine/Minimally Invasive Surgery) at Weill Cornell Medical College and an Assistant Attending Surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Dr. Zarnegar's primary clinical interests include thyroid/parathyroid/adrenal and GI neuroendocrine disease as well as benign and malignant foregut disease. His research interests include development of novel technology for tumor localization and basic science research towards the goal of improvement management of endocrine disorders.
Dr. Zarnegar graduated from the Chicago Medical School in 1999 and went on to pursue a career in General Surgery. He trained in General Surgery completing his residency at Case Western Reserve University. After his residency he went on to complete a fellowship in Endocrine Surgery, under the direction of Orlo H. Clark, MD at the University of California, San Francisco. Because of his interest in benign and malignant foregut disorders he went on to complete a fellowship in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, under the direction of Lawrence Way, MD, at the University of California, San Francisco, and developed a special interest in diseases of the stomach, pancreas, and liver. Most of these procedures are done laparoscopically allowing the patients to have a quicker recovery and return to activity.
During residency and fellowship Dr. Zarnegar developed an interest in the science of tumor redifferentiation and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship using poorly differentiated thyroid cancer as a model. He is widely published in the field of Cancer and Endocrine Surgery with over 20 articles and 5 book chapters. He has presented his research at numerous national and international meetings.
