Memorial Sloan Kettering Pediatric Surgeon Enrico Danzer

Enrico Danzer, MD

Areas of Expertise

Conditions I Treat

  • Pediatric cancers

My Specialties

  • Minimally invasive surgery
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Get to Know Me

I am a pediatric surgeon who specializes in the care of patients ranging in age from newborns to adolescents and young adults. I am experienced in minimally invasive procedures, such as thoracoscopies, laparoscopies, and complex minimally invasive resections whenever possible. These procedures — which use small incisions, tiny cameras, and very thin instruments — can shorten your child’s hospital stay, reduce post-procedural pain, and support quicker recovery.

 

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Pediatric Surgery Service treats many young patients whose cancers are considered inoperable by other specialists. This means that patients’ disease can be especially aggressive or complex, making minimally invasive approaches less effective for the treatment of their disease. I am passionate about applying my expertise with minimally invasive procedures to identify the patients for whom these methods would be most appropriate. If it is not safe to take a minimally invasive approach or if a more intensive treatment is necessary, I work with MSK’s world-class team of medical and surgical specialists and pathologists to develop and deliver the intervention that will get your child the best results.

When a young patient receives a cancer diagnosis, they and their family feel anxious and overwhelmed. I ask my patients and their families to put their confidence and trust in me, for as the father to a young boy, I can understand their concerns about their child’s diagnosis and surgical treatment.

My goal is to provide my patients and their families with the compassionate and precise care that I would want my son to receive. My care philosophy revolves around treating each patient as if they were my own child, helping my patients and their families feel as comfortable as they possibly can throughout the treatment journey, and avoiding feelings of information overload by patiently and carefully explaining why we are making the care decisions that we are at each point in the process.

What I Do at MSK

I'm a pediatric surgeon, which is a doctor with special training in surgery on fetuses, infants, children, and adolescents.

  • Assistant Attending Surgeon
Areas of Expertise

Conditions I Treat

  • Pediatric cancers

My Specialties

  • Minimally invasive surgery
Education & Honors

Education

  • MD, Medical School of the Friedrich-Schiller-University

Residencies

  • General Surgery - University of Pennsylvania Health System/Inova Fairfax Hospital

Fellowships

  • Pediatric Surgery - Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University
  • Pediatric Surgery Oncology - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • General, Thoracic, and Fetal Surgery - The Center for Fetal Research, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Educational Fellow/Surgical Instructor - Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania

Board Certifications

  • General Surgery
  • Pediatric Surgery

Awards and Honors

  • International MIS and Surgical Innovation Conference: Innovation Award (2019)
  • American Academy of Pediatrics, Surgical Section: Rosenkrantz Research Award (2017)
  • Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy: Paper selected as Editor’s Choice (2011, 2012)
  • International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society: Camille Vandenberghe-Storz Young Investigator Award (2011)

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Contact and Location

Dr. Danzer sees patients at one location.

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Location
New York, NY
1275 York Avenue New York NY 10065

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Colleagues

Doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering work as teams, with specialists from all different areas. This allows us to consider all your needs together, and to give you the best possible care.

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Research and Publications

Publications on PubMed

Visit PubMed for a full listing of Dr. Danzer’s journal articles. Pubmed is an online index of research papers and other articles from the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

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Disclosures

Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.

MSK requires doctors and faculty members to report (“disclose”) the relationships and financial interests they have with external entities. As a commitment to transparency with our community, we make that information available to the public.

Enrico Danzer discloses the following relationships and financial interests:

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