Stuti Tambar, MD, FACS

Dr. Stuti Tambar obtained her undergraduate and Doctor of Medicine degrees from the University of Buffalo in addition to completing her residency in the General Surgery Training program.  Dr. Tambar continued her training with a specialization in treating malignant and benign breast disease from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. 

Following her specialized training, Dr. Tambar served as a Breast Surgical Oncologist in California, before returning home to Western New York to give back to the community that helped her become who she is today. Dr. Tambar’s clinical interest focuses on screening and identifying high risk patients that will benefit from surveillance.

When she is not working, she most enjoys spending time with her husband and three children, cooking, and running.

Procedures

• Skin and nipple-sparing mastectomy
• Breast-conservation surgery
• Oncoplasty

Education

• Fellowship, Breast Surgical Oncology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
• Residency, General Surgery, Department of Surgery, State University of New York at Buffalo
• Doctor of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
• Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Sciences/ Bachelor of Arts, Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Magna Cum Laude
• Bachelor of Arts, Liberal Arts, Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, India

Accreditations/Associations

• Fellow, American College of Surgeons
• American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBrS)

Honors/Awards

• SMBS Naughton Award for service
• Golden key Honor Society

Publications/Presentations

• Tambar S, Chan M, Pittman T, Willey S, Tousimis E. Surgical and Oncologic Outcomes after Pre-pectoral Breast Reconstruction for Mastectomy Patients: The MedStar Georgetown University Experience. Poster presentation at The American Society of Breast Surgeons, Las Vegas, April 26-30, 2017.
• Kumar P, Tambar S, Laschomb W. A retrospective analysis of I-125 radioactive seed and wire localization of non-palpable breast lesions. Accepted for poster presentation at 4th regional meeting of International Gynecologic Cancers Society, Santiago, Chile. May 10-12, 2015.
• Thirunavukarasu P, Tambar S, Talati C, Sangameswaran K, Kumar S. Comparison of radioactive seed localization to wire localization for non-palpable breast lesions. Oral presentation at ACS clinical congress. San Francisco, CA. October 29, 2014. Manuscript submitted.
• Burkman LJ, Tambar S, Schuel H, Pollack E, Rafferty R, Rizvi A, Joulak F. Sperm and your natural marijuana: Endocannabinoids, nicotine and fertility. Presented at 66th Annual Meeting of American Society of Andrology, April 9-13. Houston, TX. 2010
• Burkman LJ, Tambar S, Makriyannis A, Bodziak M, Mroz R, Telesz B, Kiouranakis N. Fertility loss in the sperm of tobacco smokers may be reversed after washing with a cannabinoid agonist. Presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, New Orleans, October 21-25, Fertil Steril 86 (Sup. 2) S285. 2006
• Burkman LJ, Mroz R, Bodziak ML, Tambar S, Beardsley S, Telesz B. The sperm from most chronic tobacco smokers exhibit a significant decline in the ability to bind to the human egg. Presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Montreal, October 15-19, Fertil Steril 84 (Sup.1) S13 - 14. 2005