Aimee M. Crago, MD, PhD, FACS

Aimee M. Crago, MD, PhD, FACS

Associate Attending Surgeon
Memorial Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York, New York

Dr. Crago earned her PhD at the University of Cambridge as a British Marshall Scholar and her MD in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology before training in surgery and surgical oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She joined the MSKCC faculty in 2010 as a member of the Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service and the Sarcoma Disease Management Team, and now serves as associate attending surgeon. She is an active participant in the care of patients with all types of soft tissue sarcoma and coordinates a translational science research program that focuses on understanding the molecular drivers of sarcomas and how genomic aberrations in these tumors can inform patient care. Her work has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, the Food and Drug Administration, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American College of Surgeons, and the American Cancer Society among others. Dr. Crago is committed to educating others regarding sarcoma biology and patient care; as such, she trains clinical and research fellows at Memorial Sloan Kettering, has functioned as a Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School special contributing faculty member, and is an active member of the AACR, the Society for Surgical Oncology, the Connective Tissue Oncology Society, ASCO, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation.