PHILADELPHIA (September 13, 2022)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Anthony M. Villano, MD, as a clinical instructor in the Department of Surgical Oncology.
Villano earned his undergraduate degree in biology from Muhlenberg College and attended Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He graduated with his medical degree in 2013 and went on to work as a resident physician in general surgery at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. While there, he completed an advanced curriculum for robotic surgery.
Villano has also completed a research fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as part of his residency training, specializing in translational research for soft tissue sarcomas. He recently finished a Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship at Fox Chase.
Villano is an accomplished researcher whose work had been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals and textbooks. He is also the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including Fox Chase Cancer Center’s John Ridge Fellowship Award, the DC Chapter of the American College of Surgeons Best Clinical Research Award, and the Best Clinical and Basic Science Research Awards from MedStar Georgetown University Hospital’s Hufnagel Research Symposium.
Additionally, Villano belongs to multiple professional organizations. These include the American College of Surgeons, the Association for Academic Surgery, the American Hepatopancreatobiliary Association, and the Society of Surgical Oncology.
He has also held a number of committee and administrative positions. He serves on the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract’s research committee, the education committee for the Cancer Surgery Standards Program for the Commission on Cancer, and the leadership committee for the Association of Academic Surgery.
Villano began his tenure at Fox Chase on September 12. Visit our website to view Dr. Villano's complete profile.