AaronDBleznakMDMBA, FACS, FSSO(He/Him)

Breast, Surgical Oncology (Other than Breast)

Breast Program Director

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Office
Riverside Surgical Specialists Newport News
Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute
Newport News, VA 23606
Phone+1 757-873-6434

Fax+1 717-544-9401

Isenberg School of Management, University of MassachusettsMBA, Business, 2011 - 2014
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of MedicineResidency, Surgery, 1983 - 1988
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson UniversityClass of 1983

Top Doctors Castle Connelly, 2008-2023
Best Doctors Best Doctors, 2007-2018
Regional Top Doctor Castle Connolly, 2014
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2013
Fellow Society of Surgical Oncology, 2001
Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons
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PubMed

77 citations
A Phase II Trial Exploring the Success of Cryoablation Therapy in the Treatment of Invasive Breast Carcinoma: Results from ACOSOG (Alliance) Z1072.
Rache M. Simmons, Karla V. Ballman, Charles E. Cox, Ned Carp, Jennifer L. Sabol
Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2016-05-24
24 citations
Making the Case for Palliative Care at the System Level: Outcomes Data
Parag Bharadwaj, Karen M Helfen, Leo J. Deleon, Douglas M. Thompson, Jennifer R. Ward
Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2016-02-19
86 citations
Exercise and lymphocyte activation following chemotherapy for breast cancer.
Natalie A. Hutnick, Nancy I. Williams, William J. Kraemer, Elizabeth Orsega-Smith, Richard H. Dixon
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 2005-11-01

Books/Book Chapters

Operative Standards for Cancer Surgery, Volume 1
Chapter: Sentinel Lymphadenectomy
Page 67 - 79Lee Wilke, Thomas Julian, Sarah McLaughlin, Aaron BleznakEditors: Heidi Nelson & Kelly Hunt.Wolters Kluwer, Philadelphia2015

Chair, Accreditation Committee, Commission on Cancer 2023 - Present
Member, Commission on Cancer 2022 - Present
Program Surveyor, National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers 2015 - Present
Cancer Program Surveyor, Commission on Cancer 2012 - Present
Member, Commission on Cancer 2004 - 2011
Chair (2009-2011), Vice Chair (2005-2008), Committee on Cancer Liaison, Commission on Cancer 2004 - 2011
Chair, Operations Committee, Pennsylvania Cancer Control Consortium 2001 - 2008
Board of Directors, American Cancer Society, Pennsylvania Division 2001 - 2007
President (2005-2007); Vice President (2001-2005), Keystone Chapter of the American College of Surgeons 1998 - 2011