Daniel Roses

Daniel F. Roses (11April 194525July 2025 ) was an American surgeon and professor of surgery and oncology at New York University School of Medicine, and a senior attending surgeon at Tisch Hospital of NYU Langone Health.

His research interests are the surgical and systemic treatment of cancer and the surgical treatment of thyroid and parathyroid disease.

Career Following surgical training at the NYU-Bellevue Medical Center, Roses served as a lieutenant commander with the Medical Corps of the US Navy.

He was the Director of the Breast Cancer Discovery Fund and the Cancer Surgery Research Fund at the NYU School of Medicine. He was also the Principal Investigator at NYU for the National Cancer Institute Multicenter Sentinel Lymphadenectomy Trial for melanoma.

Roses is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He served as the New York State Chairman for its Commission on Cancer and as President of the New York Surgical Society (2008–2009). He was a member of over 20 professional societies, including the American Surgical Association, Alpha Omega Alpha, the Society of Surgical Oncology, the Society of University Surgeons, the American Association for Cancer Research, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Awards and honors Roses received the following awards:

Daniel G. Miller Excellence in Medicine Award from the Israel Cancer Research Fund (2011); Physician of the Year Award from the Rambam Medical Center in Israel (1999); Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma, 1983. W.B. Saunders. . Breast Cancer, 1999 and 2005. Elsevier Churchill Livingstone. .

Personal life He and his wife, Helene, have three children and six grandchildren.