Dr. Nabil Wasif is a surgical oncologist, who is a general surgeon with additional subspecialty training in cancer surgery. He joined the Mayo Clinic in 2009 after completing a surgical oncology fellowship at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Los Angeles. He completed residency training at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He graduated from Aga Khan University Medical School in Pakistan and earned a master of public health in quantitative methods from the Harvard School of Public Health. His clinical expertise covers cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC (hyperthermic Intraoperative chemotherapy), a specialized treatment for advanced colon cancer, appendix cancer, and peritoneal mesothelioma; pancreatic cancer, both adenocarcinoma and neuroendocrine tumors; gastric cancer, both adenocarcinoma and GIST tumors; melanoma; and retro-peritoneal sarcoma. In addition to his clinical activities, he is the program director for the General Surgery Residency Program at Mayo Clinic Arizona. He is also actively involved in clinical research, primarily in the field of comparative effectiveness research and health services research as it pertains to cancer care.
Dr. Zhi Ven Fong is a surgical oncologist at Mayo Clinic Arizona. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson University as a medical doctor and completed a general surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. He then completed a fellowship in complex general surgical oncology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Mass General Brigham. Following this, he joined the staff at Mayo Clinic Arizona as an assistant professor. Dr. Fong works in close collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of physicians to build a comprehensive and individualized plan of care for patients with gastric and hepatopancreatic biliary tumors. He incorporates minimally invasive techniques including laparoscopic and robotic approaches in the management of gastric, liver, and pancreas tumors. He led the robotic pancreas surgery program and performed the first robotic Whipple procedure at Mayo Clinic Arizona. Dr. Fong's primary focus of research includes population sciences and health services research aimed at improving patient-centered and clinical outcomes. He received public health training through a master's degree from Harvard School of Public Health and a doctorate from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Fong is an appointed member of national society committees, including the American College of Surgeons, the Society of Surgical Oncology, the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, and the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.
