Viviane Tabar

Viviane Tabar is an American neurosurgeon, the Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York since 2017.

Biography Tabar took her medical degree from the American University of Beirut. It was followed by a neurosurgical residency at the University of Massachusetts. In December 2017, she was named Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, succeeding to Philip Gutin, MD.

Viviane Tabar is also the founding Director of the Multidisciplinary Pituitary and Skull Base Tumor Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Work Tabar's specialty is intraoperative brain mapping techniques. She has devised strategies for cell-based therapies for the repair of radiation-induced brain injury. Her lab has used pluripotent stem cells for brain tumor modeling, resulting in novel insights into the biology of gliomas and to the discovery of candidate therapeutic targets for brain tumors. She has a clinical expertise in the surgical management of brain tumors such as complex gliomas, meningiomas and skull base tumors. In 2010, with her research team of the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, she demonstrated the fact that tumorous blood vessel cells may come from tumor cells as a way to create their own blood supply. Those results contributed to demonstrate the great plasticity of tumors.

A prolific author, she has written dozens of widely cited publications.

Other roles

Since 2017: Member of the National Academy of Medicine Since 2014: Member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation Member of the Society of Neurological Surgeons Member of the American Association of Neurological Surgery Member of the American Brain Tumor Association Friend of the Murray F. Brennan, MD, FACS, International Guest Scholarship Fund

Awards

2014: Top Doctors: New York Magazine 2013: Top Doctors: New York Metro Area 2012: Top Doctors: New York Metro Area 2011: Top Doctors: New York Metro Area

Publications

Personal life Viviane Tabar is married to Lorenz Studer. They have two children together.