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Susanna M. Nazarian, MD, PhD, FACS
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Academic Office
1025 Walnut Street
College Building, Suite 700
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-955-6999
215-955-9526 fax
Associate Professor
Education
Medical School
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Graduate School
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, PhD in Clinical Investigation
Residency
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Fellowships
Johns Hopkins Hospital (Abdominal Organ Transplantation)
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Breast Surgical Oncology)
Publications
- Characterizing Sentinel Lymph Node Status in Breast Cancer Patients Using a Deep-Learning Model Compared With Radiologists' Analysis of Grayscale Ultrasound and Lymphosonography
- Sentinel Lymph Node Identification in Post Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Surgical Excision Using Lymphosonography
- Sentinel Lymph Node Identification in Patients With Breast Cancer Using Lymphosonography
- Donor CMV Reactivation as a Novel Risk Factor for CMV Replication in Seropositive Liver Transplant Recipients
- Kidney transplantation and donation in the transgender population: A single-institution case series
Board Certification
Surgery
Awards
- Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs 2025
- South Jersey Magazine Top Doctors 2024, 2023
- South Jersey Magazine Top Female Doctors 2025, 2024
- Education Honor Roll, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University 2024, 2023
- Fellow, American College of Surgeons 2018
Leadership
- Metropolitan Philadelphia Chapter, American College of Surgeons
- Immediate Past President, 2024 - 2025
- President, 2023 - 2024
- President-Elect, 2022 - 2023
- Secretary/Treasurer, 2021 - 2022
- Chair, Membership Committee, 2019 - 2020
- Councilor At Large, 2018 - 2021
- Mock Oral Board Co-Chair, 2016 - 2018
- Member, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center Protocol Review & Monitoring Committee, 2021 - present
- Member, Academic Surgical Congress Development Task Force, 2021 - 2023
- Member, Association for Academic Surgery Finance Committee, 2021 - 2023
- Early Investigator Representative, Breast Oncology Local Disease (BOLD) Task Force, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group-American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ECOG-ACRIN), 2021 - 2023
- Examiner, General Surgery Certifying Examination, American Board of Surgery, 2019 - present
- Member, Pennsylvania District #1 Committee on Applicants for Fellowship in the College, American College of Surgeons
- Morehead-Cain Foundation
- Member, Central Semifinalist Committee, 2019 - 2022
- Alumni Reviewer for Out-of-State and International Semifinalists, 2016. 2018
- Co-Chair, American Society of Transplant Surgeons Bylaws Committee, 2018
- Association for Academic Surgery
- Member, Program Committee, 2018 - 2020
- Member, Leadership Committee, 2016 - 2018
- Member, Award Review Committee, 2016 - 2018
- Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/ United Network for Organ Sharing
- Region 2 Representative, Living Donor Committee, 2017 - 2018
- Member, TransNet Work Group, 2014 - 2015
- Member, Infectious Disease Verification Work Group, 2014 - 2015
- Region 6 Representative, Operations and Safety Committee, 2014 - 2015
- Member, Bylaws Committee, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2015 - 2018