BiliaryTractCancer near Davenport, FL

Care Philosophy: Rahila Essani, MD, FACS, FASCRS, is board-certified colorectal surgeon. Dr Essani earned her medical degree from the Aga Khan University Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan. She completed three research fellowships at the University of Southern California, where she also completed her internship and residency in surgery. She finished a second residency in general surgery. She completed her colorectal surgery fellowship program at Grant Medical Center, Ohio. She also completed a fellowship in advanced management of rectal cancer at Lankenau Hospital, PA. Dr Essani developed the rectal cancer program and the robotic general and colorectal program at Baylor Scott and White Clinic in Temple, Texas.

Biography: Roberto Arias, MD, is a board-certified surgeon who completed his internship in general surgery at Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, New York, NY, and general surgery residency at New York Medical College, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, where he also completed a fellowship in Advanced GI/MIS. Dr. Arias has been a surgeon at Nuvance Health at Putnam Hospital Center in Poughkeepsie, NY, since 2022, and before that, served as a general surgeon at UNC Health at Southeastern in Lumberton, NC. As an assistant professor of general surgery at New York Medical College at Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, he conducted a wide range of general surgical procedures and mentored and supervised surgical residents and medical students.