Subspecialty	Gynecologic Oncology
Clinical Interests	Ovarian Cancer
	Cervical Cancer
	Biologic and targeted therapy for Gynecologic Cancer
	Cervical Dysplasia
	Chemotherapy for Gynecologic Cancer
	Clinical Trials for Gynecologic Cancer
	Colposcopy
	Endometriosis
	HPV Vaccine Therapy
	Laparoscopic Hysterectomy
	Laparoscopic Surgery
	Laser Therapy for Pre-invasive lower genital tract disease
	Robotic Hysterectomy
	Surgery, Minimally Invasive
	Uterine Cancer
	Uterine Fibroids
	da vinci robotic surgery
Gender	Male
E-mail	jamal.rahaman@mssm.edu
Education and Training	MD, University of the West Indies
	Residency, Obs/ Gyn, Mount Hope Women's Hospital
	Residency, Obs/ Gyn, Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Ct.
	Residency, Obs/ Gyn, Mount Sinai Hospital
	Fellowship, Gynecology Oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital
	Fellowship, Cardio & Vascular, Texas Heart Institute
Awards	2008 Marquis-Who's Who in America
	2008 Best Doctors in New York New York Magazine
	2008 Biltmore Who's Who
	2002 Top Minimal Invasive Surgeons New York Magazine
	2002 1st Place Laparoscopic Staging in Patient with Fallopian Tube Carcinoma ACOG Annual Meeting Film Festival
	2002 - 2008 Top Doctors in New York Metro Area Castle Conolly Medical
	2001 CREOG/ACOG National Faculty Teaching Award for Residency Education
	1990 Resident of the Year Award Lincoln Medical Center
	1984 Noel Haye Prize
	1984 Leonard de Cordova Medal in Physiology
	1984 Class Prize in Internal Medicine
	1979 Trinidad and Tobago National Scholarship
	1979 University of the West Indies Open Scholarship

Jamal Rahaman, MD, DGO, FACS, FACOG

Dr. Rahaman is the Fellowship Director in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology and the Director of the Gynecologic Oncology Chemotherapy Service at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. He has also previously served as the Director of Gynecologic Oncology at the Mount Sinai and Elmhurst Hospitals.

Dr. Rahaman received his medical training at The University of the West Indies and did his first Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The Mount Hope Women's Hospital, in a Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists Program. He also completed the full Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. In addition to the Fellowship training in Gynecologic Oncology at Mount Sinai, he also completed a two year Fellowship in Cardiac and Vascular surgery with Dr. Denton Cooley at the Texas Heart Institute. After serving as Chairman of The Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Williamson ARH Hospital in Kentucky, he was recruited to return to the Faculty at Mount Sinai in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology.

Dr. Rahaman's academic responsibility focuses on the comprehensive training of subspecialty fellows in Gynecologic Oncology in addition to teaching resident physicians and medical students. He is widely recognized for his special expertise in complicated and challenging pelvic surgery especially laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgery. He is one of a very few surgeons credentialed to teach and perform da Vinci Robotic surgery for Gynecologic cancers. He is the Principal and co-investigator on several National & International Clinical trials for gynecologic cancers including GOG chemotherapy trials and HPV vaccination trials. Dr. Rahaman is also engaged in basic science and translational research to identify potential predictors of malignant transformation to ovarian cancers as well as investigating novel targets and pathways for emerging cancer therapeutic agents. He has authored numerous publications in International journals and written several book chapters in Gynecologic Oncology and has been the recipient of many teaching and peer recognition awards. His clinical practice encompasses the full spectrum of care for gynecologic cancers including surgery, chemotherapy and biologic therapy. He is also a certified colposcopist for Cervical Dysplasia clinical trials and provides complete treatment for pre-invasive lower genital tract disease including laser therapy.

Related Link:
Mount Sinai Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program

Education and Training	MD, University of the West Indies
	Residency, Obs/ Gyn, Mount Hope Women's Hospital
	Residency, Obs/ Gyn, Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Ct.
	Residency, Obs/ Gyn, Mount Sinai Hospital
	Fellowship, Gynecology Oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital
	Fellowship, Cardio & Vascular, Texas Heart Institute
Board Certification	Gynecologic Oncology

Subspecialty	Gynecologic Oncology
Clinical Interests	Ovarian Cancer
	Cervical Cancer
	Biologic and targeted therapy for Gynecologic Cancer
	Cervical Dysplasia
	Chemotherapy for Gynecologic Cancer
	Clinical Trials for Gynecologic Cancer
	Colposcopy
	Endometriosis
	HPV Vaccine Therapy
	Laparoscopic Hysterectomy
	Laparoscopic Surgery
	Laser Therapy for Pre-invasive lower genital tract disease
	Robotic Hysterectomy
	Surgery, Minimally Invasive
	Uterine Cancer
	Uterine Fibroids
	da vinci robotic surgery
Board Certification	Gynecologic Oncology

Active Clinical Trials

GOG0218 A Phase III Trial of Carboplatin and Paclitaxel plus placebo versus Carboplatin and Paclitaxel plus concurrent Bevacizumab (NSC # 704865, IND #7921) followed by placebo, versus Carboplatin and Paclitaxel plus concurrent and extended Bevacizumab, in women who are newly diagnosed, previously untreated, Stage III or IV, epithelial overian or primary peritoneal cancer NCI-supplied agent(s): Bevacizumab/Placebo (NSC #704865, IND #7921)

GOG0213 A Phase III randomized controlled clinical trial of Carboplatin and Paclitazel alone or in combination with Bevacizumab (NSC #704865, IND #7921) followed by Bevacizumab and secondary cytoreductive surgery in platinum-sensitive, recurrent ovarian, peritone primary and fallopian tube cancer.  NCI-supplied agents: Bevacizumab (NSC #704865, IND #7921)

GOG0212 A randomized phase III trial of maintenance chemotherapy comparing 12, monthly cycles of single agent Paclitaxel or CT-2103 (IND #70177), versus no treatment until documented relapse in women with advanced ovarian or primary peritoneal cancer achieve a complete clinical response to primary platinum/taxane chemotherapy

GOG0209 A Randomized Phase III Trial of Doxorubicin/Cisplatin/Paclitaxel and G-CSF versus Carboplatin/Paclitaxel in Patients with Stage III & IV or Recurrent Endometrial Cancer

GOG0210 A Molecular Staging Study of Endometrial Carcinoma

GOG0233 / ACRIN 6671 Utility of preoperative FDG-PET/CT and Ferumoxtran-10 MRI scanning prior to primary chemoradiation therapy to detect retroperitoneal lymph node metastasis in patients with locoregionally advanced (IB2, IIA ≥4 CM, IIB-IVA) carcinoma of the cervix

GOG0215 A Phase II Randomized Study of the Effect of Zoledronic Acid versus Observation on Bone Mineral Density of the Lumbar Spine in Women who Elect to Undergo Risk-Reducing Surgery that Results in Removal of Both Ovaries

GOG0136 Acq uisition of human gynecologic specimens and serum to be used in studying the causes, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cancer

GCO# 06-0832 Investigator Initiated Phase I/II trial of combination intra-peritoneal Docetaxel and intravenous pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in persistent epithelial ovarian, peritoneal and fallopian tube carcinoma.

GCO # 04-0754 A Phase lll, Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled, Multi-Center, Study to Evaluate the Efficacy of GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals ' HPV-16/18 VLP/AS04 Vaccine Compared to Hepatitis A Vaccine as Control in Prevention of Persistent HPV-16 or HPV-18 Cervical Infection and Cervical Neoplasia, Administered Intramuscularly According to a 0, 1, 6 Month Schedule in Healthy Females 15-25 Years of Age
Protocol 580299/008

GCO # 07-0267 A Phase lllb, Observer-Blind, Randomized, Multicenter Study With Two Parallel Groups to Compare the Immunogenicity of GlaxoSmithKline Biological 's HPV-16/18 L 1/AS04 Vaccine Versus Merck 's Gardasil Vaccine When Administered Intramuscularly According to a 3-Dose Schedule in Healthy Adult Females 18-45 Years of Age
Protocol 108933 (HPV-010)

 

 

Translational Research

• KLF6 is a novel regulator of VEGF in Ovarian cancer cell lines.
• Utility of a novel microarray assessment of critical signaling pathways in ovarian cancer
• MicroRNA signatures in Human Ovarian cancer and response to chemotherapy.
• Comparative Genomic Hypridiztion (CGH) Predicts Time to Recurrence in Primary Ovarian Carcinoma.
• Combination anti-estrogen and proteosome inhibitor biologic therapy for uterine cancer.

Nezhat F, Prasad Hayes M, Peiretti M, Rahaman J. Laparoscopic radical parametrectomy and partial vaginectomy for recurrent endometrial cancer. Gynecol Oncol 2007 Feb; 104(2): 494-496.

Rahaman J, Berkowitz R, Mitty H, Gaddipati S, Brown B, Nezhat F. Minimally Invasive Managemant of Advanced Abdominal Pregnancy. Obstet Gynecol 2004; 103(5): 1064-1068.

Nezhat F, Jyoti Y, Rahaman J, Gretz H, Cohen CJ. Analysis of survival after laparoscopic management of endometrial cancer. J Minim Invasive Gynecol 2008 Mar-Apr; 15(2): 181-187.

Zakashansky K, Chuang L, Gretz HF, Nagarsheth N, Rahaman J, Nezhat FN. A case controlled study of total laparoscopic radical hysterectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy versus radical abdominal hysterectomy in a fellowship training program. Int J Gynecol Cancer 2007 Mar 26; [Epub ahead of print] .

Nezhat F, Jyoti Y, Rahaman J, Gretz H, Gardner G, Cohen CJ. Laparoscopic lymphadnectomy using the ultrasonically activated shears: Analysis of the first 100 Cases. Gynecol Oncol 2005 May; 97: 813-819.

Rahaman J, Dottino P, Jennings TS, Holland J, Cohen CJ. The Second-Look operation improves survival in sub-optimally debulked Stage III ovarian cancer patients. Int J Gynecol Cancer 2005; 15(1): 1-7.

Levine DA, Argenta PA, Yee CJ, Marshall DS, Olvera N, Bogomolniy F, Rahaman J, Robson ME, Offit K, Barakat RR, Soslow RA, Boyd J. Fallopian Tube and Primary Peritoneal Carcinoma Associated with BRCA Mutation. J Clin Oncol 2003; 21: 4222-4227.

Nezhat F, Cohen CJ, Rahaman J, Gretz H, Cole P, Kalir T. Comparative immunohistochemical studies of bcl-2 and p53 proteins in benign and malignant ovarian endometriotic cysts. Cancer 2002; 94(11): 2935-2940.

Jennings TS, Dottino P, Rahaman J, Cohen CJ. Results of selective use of operative laparoscopy in gynecologic oncology. Gynecol Oncol 1998; 70: 323-328.

Cohen CJ, Rahaman J. Endometrial Cancer: Management of high risk and recurrence including the Tamoxifen controversy. Cancer 1995; 76: 2044-2052.