Overview of Dr. Capko

Dr. Deborah Capko is a general surgeon in New York, NY and is affiliated with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She received her medical degree from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and has been in practice 28 years. Dr. Capko accepts several types of health insurance, listed below. She is one of 102 doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center who specialize in General Surgery. She has more than 10 publications and over 500 citings.

Education & Training

• Rutgers Health/New Jersey Medical SchoolResidency, Surgery, 1989 - 1994

• Rutgers New Jersey Medical SchoolClass of 1989

Certifications & Licensure

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

• Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

• Strategies to avoid mastectomy skin-flap necrosis during nipple-sparing mastectomy.

  Tracy-Ann Moo, Jonas A Nelson, Varadan Sevilimedu, Jillian Charyn, Tiana V Le, Robert J Allen, Babak J Mehrara, Andrea V Barrio, Deborah M Capko, Melissa Pilewskie, Al...> ;The British Journal of Surgery. 2023 Jun 12
• 50 citations

  Nodal Recurrence in Patients With Node-Positive Breast Cancer Treated With Sentinel Node Biopsy Alone After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy-A Rare Event.

  Andrea V. Barrio, Giacomo Montagna, Anita Mamtani, Varadan Sevilimedu, Marcia Edelweiss, Deborah Capko, Hiram S. Cody, Mahmoud El-Tamer, Mary L. Gemignani, Alexandra S...> ;JAMA Oncology. 2021 Oct 7
• 19 citations

  Microscopic Extracapsular Extension in Sentinel Lymph Nodes Does Not Mandate Axillary Dissection in Z0011-Eligible Patients

  Andrea V. Barrio, Stephanie Downs-Canner, Marcia Edelweiss, Kimberly J. Van Zee, Hiram S. Cody, Mary L. Gemignani, Melissa Pilewskie, George Plitas, Mahmoud El-Tamer, ...> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2020 May 1
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Professional Memberships

Hospital Affiliations

Insurance Accepted

• Aetna Choice POS II
  Aetna HMO
  BCBS Blue Card PPO
  BCBS Tennessee Network 5
  CIGNA HMO
  CIGNA Open Access
  CIGNA PPO
  Empire BCBS HMO
  Empire BCBS PPO
  First Health PPO
  GHI PPO
  Great West PPO
  HIP of New York - Select PPO
  Humana ChoiceCare Network PPO
  

  Humana/ChoiceCare+ Network PPO
  Kaiser Permanente
  MagnaCare PPO
  Medical Mutual of Ohio SuperMed Plus
  Multiplan PHCS PPO
  Multiplan PPO
  MVP Healthcare PPO
  Oxford Health Freedom
  Oxford Health Liberty
  QualCare HMO
  QualCare PPO
  United Healthcare - Direct Choice Plus POS
  United Healthcare - Direct Options PPO
  

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