Meet our Team of Top Melanoma / Skin Cancer Specialists
Mohammed Kashani-Sabet, M.D., is a skin cancer expert specializing in melanoma and cutaneous lymphomas who directs California Pacific Medical Center’s Melanoma Program.
He has served as professor of dermatology at UCSF and was formerly the director of UCSF’s Melanoma Clinic. Dr. Kashani-Sabet’s research focuses on the prognostic approach to patients with melanoma and cutaneous lymphoma, and developing gene therapies for patients with melanoma—areas in which he has published extensively. Dr. Kashani-Sabet is a member of numerous professional societies and serves on the editorial board of the journal Cancer Gene Therapy. He received his medical degree from State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cutaneous oncology at UCSF.
Education/Residency/Fellowship:
Fellowship, Cutaneous Oncology, University of California, San Francisco
Residency, Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco
Internship, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Medical School, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stanley P.L. Leong, M.D., M.S., FACS, is the Chief of Cutaneous Oncology and Associate Director of the Melanoma Program at California Pacific Medical Center. He is a nationally recognized expert in selective sentinel lymph node dissections, as well as immunotherapy for patients with advanced melanoma. Most recently Dr. Leong was the Director of the Sentinel Lymph Node Program at UCSF and recently joined the Melanoma Program at California Pacific Medical Center. He is board certified in surgery and a member of the Physician Foundation at California Pacific Medical Center.
Education/Residency/Fellowship:
Fellowship, Surgical Oncology and Research, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans
Clinical Fellow, Medicine, Harvard medical School, Boston
Fellowship, Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of health, Bethesda
Residency, Internal Medicine, Mew England Deaconess Hospital, Boston
Residency, General Surgery, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Irvine
Internship, Surgery, Charity Hospital, Tulane Division, New Orleans
Graduate School, Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, New Orleans
Medical School, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans
David Minor, M.D.
Education/Residency/Fellowship:
Fellowship, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Residency, California Pacific Medical Center
Internship, California Pacific Medical Center
Medical education, UCSF School of Medicine
Peter Richards, M.D.
Education/Residency/Fellowship:
Fellowship, University of Texas MD Anderson Center
Residency, University of Alabama Hospital
Internship, University of Alabama Hospital
Medical education, George Washington University
Richard W. Sagebiel, M.D., is a pathologist in dermatology and Associate Director of the Melanoma Program in charge of melanoma pathology. He examines tissue from biopsies to determine whether melanoma is diagnosed and if so, its type and prognostic factors.
Dr. Sagebiel previously served as co-director of UCSF’s Melanoma Clinic, a program which he helped establish in 1971. He currently serves as professor of dermatology at UCSF.
Dr. Sagebiel received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed a residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also did a research fellowship at the Chester Beatty Research Institute in London. Dr. Sagebiel has published many articles regarding moles and melanoma, which has been his interest and subspecialty for over 30 years.
Education/Residency/Fellowship:
Fellowship, Pathology, Harvard medical School
Damon Runyon Fellowship for Cancer Research, Chester Beatty Institute for Cancer Research, London
Residency, Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Internship, King County Hospital, Seattle
Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Mark I. Singer, M.D., FACS, is Director of the Head and Neck Cancer Program at California Pacific Medical Center. A graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and has practiced head and neck surgery for over 30 years. His extensive career has been split between academic medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) teaching for the past 15 years and private practice. Prior to joining California Pacific Medical Center and becoming a member of the Physician Foundation at California Pacific Medical Center he was the Chief of Head and Neck Surgery Division at UCSF. He has made a number of contributions to the field of head and neck melanoma in reconstruction, rehabilitation, and cancer treatment. Additionally, Dr. Singer was voted one of America’s Top Doctors for Cancer – 2005 and received the International Association of Laryngectomees Lifetime Achievement Award in the same year.
Education/Residendy/Fellowhip:
Fellowship, Head and Neck Surgery, Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center, Chicago
Residency, Pathology, Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center, Chicago
Residency, Surgery, Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center, Chicago
Residency, Otolaryngology, Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center, Chicago
Internship, Surgery, Rush-Presbyterian-St.Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago
Medical School, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York
Wei Wang, M.D.
Education/Residendy/Fellowhip:
Fellowship, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Internship, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Medical education, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Bryan Hemming Cancer Care Center
California Pacific Medical Center
Comprehensive Cancer Services. The Bryan Hemming Cancer Care Center at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco features some of the top-rated cancer physicians and best cancer surgeons in the San Francisco Bay Area, Marin county and Northern California. Providing personalized patient care using the most successful cancer treatment options available is what we do best.
