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Dr. Goldfarb advises to the Company's clinical and regulatory affairs department. He is a surgical oncologist who has been in private practice in San Diego for 17 years. He trained in General Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and in Surgical Oncology at the Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases and Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer in New York City, and he focuses his practice on the surgical management of cancer. He is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of California at San Diego.
In addition to his private practice in San Diego, he is an active volunteer in the American Cancer Society, where he is presently on the national board after having been president of the California Division and the San Diego unit. He helped organize the first camp in California for children with cancer, chaired a committee that established guidelines for the management of common cancer, and organized a meeting to address the role of a voluntary health agency and a managed health care environment in California. Dr. Goldfarb has been a member of the Health Benefit Subcommittee of CALPERS, which reviews outcomes and outcome measures to be used in assessing the quality of health management organizations. Dr. Goldfarb also provides medical consulting services to three health care companies, including Genetronics. | 