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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.

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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.

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ACS Fellow Since 1997

Sarkis Meterissian, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada - General Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Surg Oncol
  • Canadian Assn of Gen Surg
  • Assn for Surg Ed

Additional Information

Gender

Male

General Surgery

Contact Information

Biography

A graduate of McGill’s Faculty of Medicine, I completed my residency in General Surgery at McGill. I then completed successive 2-year Fellowships: in Surgical Oncology Research in Boston (New England Deaconess Hospital) and in Clinical Surgical Oncology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. I have been at McGill since 1994, and I am presently a tenured Professor of Surgery and Oncology. I was Program Director of General Surgical Oncology and then General Surgery. I then completed 2 terms as Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education. I have been Director of the Breast Center of the MUHC since 2006 and co-Director of the Medical Advisory Board of the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation since 2012. A past Governor of the American College of Surgeons and former member of both the Committee on Medical Student Education and the Committee on Resident Education. I presently sit on the EPA Advisory Council of the American Board of Surgery.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • breast cancer
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • melanoma

Hospital Appointments

Surgeon, McGill University Health Center

Academic Appointments

Surgery and Oncology

Associate Professor