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Daniela Molena, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor, Director of Esophageal Surgery
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States

Dr. Daniela Molena graduated with distinction and received her medical degree from the
University of Padova, Italy. She completed General Surgery training at the University of
Padova, where she became very passionate about esophageal disorders. This brought her to
study in the US, first at the University of California San Francisco where she completed a
clinical and research fellowship in gastrointestinal surgery and then at the University of
Rochester medical center where she completed her General Surgery training. After completing a
Thoracic Surgery Residency at the combined Memorial Sloan Kettering/Weill Cornell Program,
she was recruited to Johns Hopkins University to build a minimally invasive esophageal cancer
program.
Dr Molena now serves as the Director of the Esophageal Program within the Thoracic Surgery
Division at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She is involved in numerous national and
international organizations related to esophageal diseases and thoracic surgery. She is an Associate Editor for Disease
of the Esophagus, Deputy Editor of Annals of Thoracic Surgery and an Editorial Board Member of JTCVS.
Her research focuses in identifying and measuring quality indicators to improve clinical and
functional outcomes after surgery, designing clinical pathways to decrease costs and improve
results, and identifying racial and socioeconomic disparities that limit the access to excellent
care. She is also interested in developing and studying new technologies and imaging guided
approaches to direct surgical resection to be more precise, effective and less invasive

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