Faculty Profile
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Keith A. Delman, MD
– Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
– Program Director, General Surgery Residency Program, Department of Surgery, Emory
– Coordinator, Surgical Grand Rounds Program, Department of Surgery, Emory
Telephone: 404.778.3303
E-mail: kdelman@emory.edu
Certification: American Board of Surgery
Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member: 2005
Dr. Delman, a 2011 graduate of the Woodruff Leadership Academy, is co-chair of the Winship Cancer Institute's Melanoma Working Group/Multi-Disciplinary Tumor Board. This team sees nearly half of all patients diagnosed with melanoma in the state of Georgia each year, and Dr. Delman himself sees over 350 new melanoma patients annually in his clinic. In 2009, Dr. Delman and his colleague Dr. Viraj Master, an Emory Urologist, were the first team in the world to perform minimally invasive inguino-femoral lymphadenectomy for melanoma. The technique is an alternative to the traditional procedure, which involves an eight-to-ten-inch incision and a 50% risk of complications. For the minimally invasive method, Dr. Delman helped develop the use of three half-inch incisions in the thigh and has since completed over 80 such procedures. Surgeons from the Mayo Clinic, Duke University, Wake Forest, Tel Aviv, and other institutions have come to Emory to learn the technique.
In 2011, a collaborative group led by Dr. Delman as PI received a Kennedy Seed Grant Research Award from Winship to fund their collaborative study "Analysis of Immune Phenotype and Functionality with Correlation to Survival in Patients with Malignant Melanoma." The group is investigating the function and characteristics of T-lymphocytes in patients with melanoma, particularly comparing patients with recurrent disease to those who do not recur.
Dr. Delman's numerous organizational memberships include the American College of Surgeons, Association of Academic Surgeons, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Society of Surgical Oncology, and the Executive Council of the Association of Program Directors in Surgery. After serving as associate director of the general surgery residency program at Emory since 2006 and supporting program director Dr. Thomas Dodson, Dr. Delman was appointed full program director in 2011.
Affiliations
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Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
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Emory University Hospital
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The Emory Clinic
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Emory University Hospital Midtown
Medical School
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Class of 1996, Stony Brook School of Medicine, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
Postgraduate Training
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Internship and Junior Residency, Categorical General Surgery Program, Montefiore Medical Center-Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 1996-1998
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Research Fellowship, Hepatobiliary Oncology Laboratory, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 1998-2000
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Chief and Senior Residency, Categorical General Surgery Program, Montefiore Medical Center-Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2000-2003
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Administrative Chief Resident, Montefiore Medical Center-Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2002-2003
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Surgical Oncology Fellowship, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2003-2005
Honors and Awards
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New York Colon and Rectal Society, Third Prize in Resident Presentation Forum, 2003
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ACP Recognition Award-MD Anderson Cancer Center Surgical Oncology Fellowship, 2005
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Junior Resident Teaching Award, Department of Surgery, Emory, 2006
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Department of Surgery Resident Teaching Award, Emory, 2008
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Woodruff Leadership Academy, Emory University-Woodruff Health Sciences Center, 2010
Current Editorships and Editorial Boards
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Editorial Board, Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Editorial Board, SCORE (Surgical Council on Resident Education) Portal
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Associate Editor, Current Problems in Cancer
Current Organizational Memberships
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American College of Surgeons, Fellow
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American College of Surgeons Oncology Group
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American College of Surgeons-Georgia Chapter
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Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Patient Care and Medical Knowledge, ACS/APDS/ASE Entering Surgery Resident Prep Curriculum Committee
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Co-Chair, Melanoma Working Group/Multi-Disciplinary Tumor Board, Winship Cancer Institute
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Constitution and Bylaws Committee, Training Committee, Society of Surgical Oncology
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American Society of Clinical Oncology
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American Hepato-Pancreatobiliary Association
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Society of Melanoma Research
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Georgia Surgical Society
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Atlanta Surgical Association
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Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
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Task Force on Resident Work Hours, Association of Program Directors in Surgery
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Association of Academic Surgeons
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Southeastern Surgical Congress
Clinical Interests
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Surgical treatment of melanoma and cancers of the skin
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Hepatobiliary cancers
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Pancreatic cancers
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Cancers of the colon, rectum, and GI tract
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Sarcoma
Research Interests
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Clinical and translational research involving tumors of the skin and soft tissue
