Viviane Tabar

Tabar took her medical degree from the American University of Beirut. It was followed by a neurosurgical residency at the University of Massachusetts. She did postdoctoral work at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Having done a research fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Tabar joined the faculty. At present, she is the Theresa C. Feng Chair for Neurosurgical Oncology and the Vice Chair for Neurosurgical Research and Education.{{cite web | author=The ASCO Post | title=Viviane Tabar, MD, Named Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | website=The ASCO Post | date=10 Feb 2018 | url=http://www.ascopost.com/issues/february-10-2018/viviane-tabar-md-named-chair-of-the-department-of-neurosurgery-at-memorial-sloan-kettering-cancer-center/ | access-date=2 Aug 2018}} In December 2017, she was named Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, succeeding to Philip Gutin, MD.{{Cite web|url=https://amysmartgirls.com/congratulations-dr-fa2b1e009675|title=Congratulations Dr. Viviane Tabar — the New Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center|last=Mason|first=Heather|date=2018-01-11|website=Medium|language=en|access-date=2019-10-03}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.academic-med.com/news/2018/01/29/viviantabar-neurosurgerychair-memorialsloanketterring|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030163131/https://www.academic-med.com/news/2018/01/29/viviantabar-neurosurgerychair-memorialsloanketterring|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 30, 2019|title=Academic Physician Recruitment & Executive Search {{!}} News {{!}} Dr. Vivian Tabar selected as Neurosurgery Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering|website=www.academic-med.com|access-date=2019-10-03}}

Viviane Tabar is also the founding Director of the Multidisciplinary Pituitary and Skull Base Tumor Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.{{cite web | title=Multidisciplinary Pituitary & Skull Base Tumor Center | website=Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | url=https://www.mskcc.org/departments/neurosurgery/pituitary-skull-base-tumor | access-date=2 Aug 2018}}

Tabar's specialty is intraoperative brain mapping techniques.

Her research is in stem cell biology, and she is one of the leaders of the New York State consortium for the development of human embryonic stem cell–derived dopamine neurons for Parkinson's disease.{{cite web |url=https://stemcell.ny.gov/developing-human-es-cell-derived-dopamine-neuron-source-cell-therapy |title=Developing a Human ES Cell Derived Dopamine Neuron Source for Cell Therapy in Parkinson's Disease |access-date=2 August 2018}} She has devised strategies for cell-based therapies for the repair of radiation-induced brain injury. Her lab has used pluripotent stem cells for brain tumor modeling, resulting in novel insights into the biology of gliomas and to the discovery of candidate therapeutic targets for brain tumors. She has a clinical expertise in the surgical management of brain tumors such as complex gliomas, meningiomas and skull base tumors.{{Cite web|url=https://gradschool.weill.cornell.edu/faculty/viviane-tabar|title=Viviane Tabar {{!}} Graduate School of Medical Sciences|website=gradschool.weill.cornell.edu|access-date=2019-10-03}} In 2010, with her research team of the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, she demonstrated the fact that tumorous blood vessel cells may come from tumor cells as a way to create their own blood supply. Those results contributed to demonstrate the great plasticity of tumors.{{Cite web|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/brain-tumors-grow-their-own-blood-supply|title=Brain Tumors Grow Their Own Blood Supply|last1=Kaiser|first1=Jocelyn|date=2010-11-21|website=Science {{!}} AAAS|language=en|access-date=2019-10-03}}

A prolific author, she has written dozens of widely cited publications.

• Since 2017: Member of the National Academy of Medicine{{Cite news|url=https://nam.edu/national-academy-of-medicine-elects-80-new-members/|title=National Academy of Medicine Elects 80 New Members|date=16 October 2017|work=National Academy of Medicine|access-date=3 October 2019}}
• Since 2014: Member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-asci.org/controllers/asci/AsciProfileController.php?pid=501102|title=The American Society for Clinical Investigation|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-03}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.mskcc.org/announcements/physician-scientists-viviane-tabar-and-lorenz-studer-elected-american-society-clinical-investigation|title=Physician-Scientists Viviane Tabar and Lorenz Studer Elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation|date=July 11, 2014|website=Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center|language=en|access-date=2019-10-03}}
• Member of the Society of Neurological Surgeons
• Member of the American Association of Neurological Surgery
• Member of the American Brain Tumor Association
• Friend of the Murray F. Brennan, MD, FACS, International Guest Scholarship Fund{{Cite web|url=https://www.facs.org/~/media/files/publications/bulletin/2013/2013%20february.ashx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170928095626/https://www.facs.org/~/media/files/publications/bulletin/2013/2013%20february.ashx|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 28, 2017|title=Friends of Murray Brennan|date=February 2013|website=Bulletin|access-date=3 October 2019}}

• 2014: Top Doctors: New York Magazine
• 2013: Top Doctors: New York Metro Area
• 2012: Top Doctors: New York Metro Area
• 2011: Top Doctors: New York Metro Area {{cite web | title=Dr. Viviane Tabar, Neurosurgeon in New York, NY | website=US News Doctors | date=26 Jul 2011 | url=https://health.usnews.com/doctors/viviane-tabar-22281 | access-date=2 Aug 2018}}

• {{cite journal | last1=Tabar | first1=Viviane | last2=Shim | first2=Jae-Won | last3=Piao | first3=Jinghua | last4=Ganat | first4=Yosif M. | last5=Wakeman | first5=Dustin R. | last6=Xie | first6=Zhong | last7=Carrillo-Reid | first7=Luis | last8=Auyeung | first8=Gordon | last9=Antonacci | first9=Chris | last10=Buch | first10=Amanda | last11=Yang | first11=Lichuan | last12=Beal | first12=M. Flint | last13=Surmeier | first13=D. James | last14=Kordower | first14=Jeffrey H. | last15=Kriks | first15=Sonja | last16=Studer | first16=Lorenz | title=Dopamine neurons derived from human ES cells efficiently engraft in animal models of Parkinson's disease | journal=Nature | volume=480 | issue=7378 | pages=547–551 | date=6 Nov 2011 | issn=1476-4687 | doi=10.1038/nature10648 | pmid=22056989 | pmc=3245796 | bibcode=2011Natur.480..547K }}
• {{cite journal | last1=Tabar | first1=Viviane | last2=Chadalavada | first2=Kalyani | last3=Wilshire | first3=Jennifer | last4=Kowalik | first4=Urszula | last5=Hovinga | first5=Koos E. | last6=Geber | first6=Adam | last7=Fligelman | first7=Boris | last8=Leversha | first8=Margaret | last9=Brennan | first9=Cameron | last10=Wang | first10=Rong | title=Glioblastoma stem-like cells give rise to tumour endothelium | journal=Nature | volume=468 | issue=7325 | pages=829–833 | date=21 Nov 2010 | issn=1476-4687 | doi=10.1038/nature09624 | pmid=21102433 | bibcode=2010Natur.468..829W | s2cid=6151632 }}
• {{cite journal | last1=Perrier | first1=A. L. | last2=Tabar | first2=V. | last3=Barberi | first3=T. | last4=Rubio | first4=M. E. | last5=Bruses | first5=J. | last6=Topf | first6=N. | last7=Harrison | first7=N. L. | last8=Studer | first8=L. | title=Derivation of midbrain dopamine neurons from human embryonic stem cells | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | volume=101 | issue=34 | date=13 Aug 2004 | issn=0027-8424 | doi=10.1073/pnas.0404700101 | pmid=15310843 | pages=12543–12548 | pmc=515094 | doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal | last1=Lee | first1=Gabsang | last2=Papapetrou | first2=Eirini P. | last3=Kim | first3=Hyesoo | last4=Chambers | first4=Stuart M. | last5=Tomishima | first5=Mark J. | last6=Fasano | first6=Christopher A. | last7=Ganat | first7=Yosif M. | last8=Menon | first8=Jayanthi | last9=Shimizu | first9=Fumiko | last10=Viale | first10=Agnes | last11=Tabar | first11=Viviane | last12=Sadelain | first12=Michel | last13=Studer | first13=Lorenz | title=Modelling pathogenesis and treatment of familial dysautonomia using patient-specific iPSCs | journal=Nature | volume=461 | issue=7262 | pages=402–406 | date=19 Aug 2009 | issn=1476-4687 | doi=10.1038/nature08320 | pmid=19693009 | pmc=2784695 | bibcode=2009Natur.461..402L }}
• {{cite journal | last=Wakayama | first=T. | title=Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Generated from Adult Somatic Cells by Nuclear Transfer | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=292 | issue=5517 | date=27 Apr 2001 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.1059399 | pmid=11326103 | pages=740–743 | bibcode=2001Sci...292..740W | s2cid=39638175 }}

Viviane Tabar is married to Lorenz Studer. They have two children together.{{Cite journal|last=Printz|first=Carrie|date=2018|title=First Person: Viviane Tabar, MD|journal=Cancer|language=en|volume=124|issue=23|pages=4429–4430|doi=10.1002/cncr.31866|pmid=30536586|issn=1097-0142|doi-access=free}} They both work at the Sloan Kettering Institute heading medical research projects.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mskcc.org/research/ski/meet-researchers/lorenz-studer-work|title=At Work: Center for Stem Cell Biology Director Lorenz Studer|website=Sloan Kettering Institute|language=en|access-date=2019-10-03}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20200925154600/https://www.sloankettering.edu/videos/mentorship-gerstner-sloan-kettering-meet-ryan-and-viviane Mentorship at Gerstner Sloan Kettering: Meet Ryan and Viviane]

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