Director Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program-McLaren Regional Medical Center
Associate Professor of Surgery/Anatomy-Michigan State University
Chief of Section: Division of General Surgery, Dept. Of General Surgery-McLaren Regional Medical Center
Attending Surgeon-Genesys Regional Medical Center and Hurley Medical Center
McLaren Regional Medical Center-Michigan State University
Dr. Saha is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is affiliated with McLaren Flint Medical Center, Genesys Regional Medical Center, and Hurley Regional Medical Center, and has been successfully practicing in the mid-Michigan area for more than twenty years. He is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Anatomy for the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University in East Lansing, and serves as Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at McLaren Flint Regional Medical Center.
After general surgery training in Pennsylvania, Dr. Saha completed a two-year fellowship in Surgical Oncology at Tulane University in New Orleans and a second fellowship in Head & Neck Cancer Surgery at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York. He is board certified in the Specialty of Surgery, and specializes in surgical oncology, with subspecialty of head and neck cancer, endocrine surgery, breast cancer, hepato-biliary cancers and melanoma.
He is a member of numerous international and national medical organizations. Known world-wide for his study of sentinel lymph node mapping, he is the first surgeon in the world to perform this technique for accurate staging of colorectal cancer. Dr. Saha has participated in a large number of national trials for breast cancer, liver tumors, and colorectal cancer. Surgically, he has a special interest in cancers of the breast, head and neck, pancreas, liver, gastrointestinal, and gynecological cancers, including melanoma and sarcoma. Other procedures that Dr. Saha has pursued in this area include radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors, sentinel lymph node mapping for melanoma, carotid body tumor, and minimally invasive radioguided parathyroidectomy for hyperparathyroidism. Dr. Saha is dedicated to research in the field of surgical oncology. His work has been published and featured in many prestigious meetings and peer reviewed journals. He has authored over 200 articles, including more than 60 manuscripts and book chapters within his specialty; he has also delivered over 100 presentations at state, national, and international meetings.