Our Physicians/ Fadi Braiteh, M.D., CPI
FADI BRAITEH, M.D., CPI
EDUCATION
Dr. Braiteh earned his medical degree in 1998 from Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon. In 2003, he completed his internal medicine internship and residency at the Hospital of Saint Raphael, Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. From 2003-2009, Dr. Braiteh completed three fellowships – medical oncology, phase I drug development and palliative care and symptom management – at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST
Gastro-intestinal and digestive system oncology, breast cancer, symptom control, cancer genetics, drug development, clinical trials.
EXPERIENCE
Prior to joining Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada in 2010, Dr. Braiteh worked as a medical oncologist and director of the Phase I Program and Drug Development Center at the Cancer and Hematology Centers of Western Michigan in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Dr. Braiteh has co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles, abstracts and book chapters. He frequently lectures about clinical research, cancer and palliative medicine to his peers. He serves as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator for numerous clinical trials.
He is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2009 Susan G. Komen Scholar-In-Training award for the AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved, the 2007 Jesse Jones Fellowship in Cancer Education Award and the recipient of the 2006 and 2005 ASCO Foundation Merit Award.
Additionally, he serves on numerous national American Society of Clinical Oncology Committees.
BOARD CERTIFIED
Medical Oncology
Internal Medicine
Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Dr. Braiteh is a Certified Physician Investigator by the Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians and Investigators (APPI)
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Society of Clinical Oncology
American Association for Cancer Research
Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians and Investigators
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Medical Association