NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital in Cortlandt Manor has announced the addition of two NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center breast surgeons to its breast care team: Roshni Rao, M.D., and Stacy K. Ugras, M.D.
Rao is the chief of the breast, melanoma and soft tissuesSurgery program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the Vivian L. Milstein Associate Professor of Surgery. She is a skilled surgeon with expertise in the treatment of locally advanced and metastatic breast cancer. Her groundbreaking research has reported on the positive effects of exercise for patients with breast cancer preparing for surgery and the impact of ethnicity on the risk of triple-negative disease. Rao received her medical degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine and completed a general surgery residency at Baystate Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in breast surgical oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Ugras, assistant professor of surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, is a fellowship-trained breast surgeon with expertise in treating all aspects of benign and malignant breast disease. She received her medical degree from Weill Cornell Medicine and completed her residency in general surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. During her residency, she also completed a two-year research fellowship in surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, followed by a clinical fellowship in breast surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Patients in the Hudson Valley now have access to the full range of breast surgical services offered by doctors from the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia.
Founded in 1889, NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital serves residents throughout Westchester, Putnam and lower Dutchess counties. It is part of NewYork-Presbyterian”™s health care system, which includes 10 hospital campuses across the Greater New York area. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is ranked No. 4 in the nation and No. 1 in New York by “U.S. News and World Report.”
