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Ghulam Abbas, MD, expert in thoracic surgery at Riverview Medical Center, and affiliated with Bayshore Community Hospital and Jersey Shore University Medical Center, has been named a 2015 Top Doctor in Red Bank, New Jersey. Top Doctor Awards is dedicated to selecting and honoring those healthcare practitioners who have demonstrated clinical excellence while delivering the highest standards of patient care.
Dr. Ghulam Abbas has a wealth of experience as a surgeon, and his medical career began in his native Pakistan when he graduated from the Aga Khan University Medical Center in Karachi. After this, Dr. Abbas moved to the United States and took an internship and residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, the latter of which was completed in 2002. There then followed two fellowships; one at Rush Presbyterian Saint Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago where he specialized in cardiothoracic surgery, and then a fellowship in thoracic and foregut surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Dr. Ghulam is a firm believer in continuous study and continuous improvement, and so further to these fellowships he also obtained a Masters in Health Care Management from Harvard in 2013. He is now recognized as one of the foremost specialists in minimally invasive thoracic surgery in New Jersey and beyond, and he is at the vanguard of the use of robotic-assisted thoracic surgery, as well as Cyberknife surgery and minimally invasive surgery for esophageal cancer.
As an expert on the cutting edge of this field, Dr. Ghulam’s opinions and expertise are much in demand and he has contributed to over 30 medical publications as well as lecturing on the subject of minimally invasive surgery both nationally and internationally. It is this determination to advance new technologies that can make such a difference to patient recovery that makes Dr. Ghulam Abbas a very worthy winner of a 2015 Top Doctor Award.
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Top Doctor Awards specializes in recognizing and commemorating the achievements of today’s most influential and respected doctors in medicine. Our selection process considers education, research contributions, patient reviews, and other quality measures to identify top doctors