RussellCharlesLanganMD, FACS, FSSO

Summary

• Russell C. Langan, MD, FACS, FSSO, Associate Chief Surgical Officer for System Integration and Quality and Director of Surgical Oncology, Northern Region, RWJBarnabas Health (RWJBH) and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey (RCINJ), is responsible for coordinating and expanding high quality cancer surgical services throughout the RWJBH system. He is the Chief of Surgical Oncology and Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, the Chairman of the Institutional Review Board (IRB), the Surgical Director of the Comprehensive Liver Center and a member of the Board of Trustees at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center (CBMC), an RWJBH facility.
  
  He specializes in complex surgical oncology and has a particular interest and expertise in the surgical management of diseases of the liver, pancreas, bile ducts, gallbladder and stomach as well as cancers which have spread to the peritoneum. Additionally, he cares for all benign biliary pathologies.
  
  Dr. Langan and his partners are the highest volume pancreatic surgeons and run the most comprehensive pancreatic program in the state of NJ through RCINJ, the states only National Cancer Institute Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.
  
  As a member of both the CBMC Cancer Center and the Gastrointestinal/Hepatobiliary Program at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, he works collaboratively with members of the multidisciplinary disease management teams including medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, gastroenterologists, radiologists, pathologists, genetic counselors and dietitians to ensure patients receive the highest level of evidence-based care including clinical trials. At CBMC, he launched a Pancreatic Cyst Screening program to monitor pancreatic lesions which do not merit immediate removal but require observation. Recently, he brought the national, multi-center Alliance Trial for operable pancreas cancer to NJ and is the primary investigator

New Jersey Health System
Russell C. Langan, MD, FACS, board certified surgical oncologist, joined Saint Barnabas Medical Center (SBMC), RWJBarnabas Health in a dual appointment with the

RWJBarnabas Health
Russell Charles Langan, MD, FACS