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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 1991

Farr R. Nezhat, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology - Obstetrics and Gynecology

Society Memberships

  • Soc. of Gynecologic Onc
  • Amer Coll of Ob & Gyn

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Contact Information

Biography

Dr. Farr Nezhat is a board-certified gynecologic oncologist who is a pioneer and leading authority in the minimally invasive surgical treatment of malignant and benign pelvic gynecologic pathologies. He is a clinical professor who contributes prolifically to the scientific and medical literature, is a frequent director of postgraduate courses and a regularly invited faculty member at professional societies and congresses. His research and educational endeavors have earned him worldwide recognition. His medical practice is a referral center for patients seeking treatment for gynecological cancers and complex benign conditions. His expertise lies in treating ovarian, uterine and cervical cancers; as well as severe and multi-organ endometriosis, pelvic masses, ovarian cysts and uterine fibroids.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

General Obstetrics & Gynecology

  • abnormal uterine bleeding
  • cervical dysplasia
  • endometriosis
  • fibroids
  • gynecology surgery
  • hysterectomy
  • laparoscopic hysterectomy

Gynecologic Cancer/Tumors

  • cervical cancer
  • complex pelvic mass
  • cytoreductive surgery
  • endometrial cancer
  • fertility preserving surgery for cancer
  • gynecologic cancers
  • hysterectomy and gyne cancer staging
  • laparoscopic hysterectomy
  • laparoscopic pelvic lymph node dissection
  • laparoscopic surgery
  • large fibroids
  • ovarian cancer
  • ovarian cancer screening
  • ovarian cysts
  • pelvic reconstruction
  • pelvic/para-aortic lymph node dissection
  • radical hysterectomy
  • radical trachelectomy
  • robotic radical hysterectomy
  • robotic surgery
  • total pelvic exenteration
  • trophoblastic disease
  • vaginal cancer
  • vulva cancer

Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility

  • endometriosis

Reconstructive Pelvic Procedures/Urogynecology

  • robotic pelvic reconstructive procedures
  • robotic sacrocolpopexy

Hospital Appointments

NewYork-Presbyterian | Weill Cornell Medical Center

New York, NY

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

NewYork-Presbyterian | Lower Manhattan Hospital

New York, NY

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

NYU Winthrop Hospital

Mineola, NY

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

Academic Appointments

Weill Cornell Medical College

New York, NY

Professor

Stony Brook University School of Medicine

Stony Brook, NY

Adjunct Professor