Dr. Deanna J. Attai is a Board-Certified General Surgeon practicing in Burbank, California. She received her undergraduate degree from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. She went on to receive her medical degree with honors from Georgetown University School of Medicine, and received her surgical training at Georgetown University Hospital. She is certified by the American Board of Surgery, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Dr. Attai’s surgical practice is devoted to caring for patients with surgical and non-surgical diseases of the breast. She has achieved certification by the American Society of Breast Surgeons for performance of breast ultrasound and ultrasound-guided biopsies. She is an instructor for Breast Ultrasound Education for the American College of Surgeons. Her private practice, the Center For Breast Care, Inc., is accredited by the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine for the performance of breast ultrasound.
She is an active member of the American Society of Breast Surgeons, and currently serves as Chair of the Communications Committee of that organization. She is also a clinical investigator for the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG). In addition, she is the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer Liaison for the Providence St. Joseph Medical Center.
Dr. Carl Brown completed medical school at McMaster University in 1995 and his general surgery training at the University of Calgary in 2003. He subsequently worked as a general surgeon at the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary. In 2004, he moved to Toronto to train as a sub specialist in Colorectal Surgery. Concurrent with his fellowship, Dr. Brown completed his master's degree in clinical research at the University of Toronto. In 2006, he joined the surgical staff of St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.
Dr. Brown is the chairman of the Research and Outcomes Evaluation Committee at the British Columbia Cancer Agency and an active member of the Colorectal Cancer Outcomes Unit. He is a member of the Surgical Oncology Network of British Columbia Executive. The goal of these groups is to improve the outcomes of patients with colorectal cancer through research initiatives.
Dr. Brown is the assistant program director of the general surgery residency program at the University of British Columbia. He coordinates the Surgery Leadership Program for general surgery trainees. Over the past three years, Dr. Brown has published several studies on surgery for colorectal cancer, the ileal pouch procedure and surgery for Crohn's disease. Furthermore, he has taught courses in laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery.
Dr. Roger Nathan Chabra graduated in 1962 from Christian Medical College of Punjab University in India. For his post-graduate surgical training, he went to the United Kingdom and became Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 1969.
In 1970, he emigrated to the United States and went through a complete surgical residency program at Boston University Medical Center. He joined Cape Cod Hospital as Attending General Surgeon in 1974 where he worked until his retirement in 2000.
During his time at Cape Cod Hospital he was on the faculty of Boston University Medical School as Clinical Instructor in Surgery and was involved in training surgical residents and medical students rotating through the hospital, which is an affiliate of the Department of Surgery at Boston University Hospital.
After 27 years as an otolaryngologist/facial plastic surgeon in Rockville, MD, Dr. Goldberg launched a new career as a health care consultant specializing in clinical information technology development, utilization management, continuous quality improvement, and risk management. He conducts accreditation surveys of outpatient medical facilities for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care. Dr. Goldberg holds board certifications in Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, and Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
He earned his B.S. degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University, and his M.D. degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. He recently received his Masters of Medical Management degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Washingtonian Magazine and Washington Consumers Checkbook have included him in their list of Top Doctors.
In conjunction with his solo clinical practice, Dr. Goldberg was Chief of Otolaryngology at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, MD, and Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, MD. He also served as a member of the Peer Review Committee of the Montgomery County Medical Society and as a peer review consultant with the Delmarva Foundation, Medical Mutual Liability Society of Maryland, and the Medical Chirurgical Society of Maryland.
Dr. H. Walter Kaess attended medical school in Cologne, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Cologne in 1970. He startedhis surgical residency at the University of Bonn and continued his training at Rhode Island Hospital, a Brown University Teaching Hospital, where he completed his residency in 1979 as Executive Chief Resident.
In 1979, he moved to Cape Cod and began his almost thirty year career at Cape Cod Hospital. During that time he was actively involved in Medical Staff Quality Insurance committees, served as Chief of Surgery and two three-year terms on the Board of Trustees. Dr. Kaess practiced the wide range of Vascular and General Surgery, career with a special interest in Breast Surgery.
Dr. John Mattson is an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in knee arthroscopy, ligament reconstruction and sports medicine. Operating out of Berkeley, CA, Dr. Mattson is both a member of the staff of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center as well as working with his own private practice - the Berkeley Orthopaedic Medical Group, Inc.
Dr. Mattson graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and completed his medical and Orthopaedic training at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Mattson joined Berkeley Orthopaedics in 1983 and was Chairman of Orthopaedics at the Student Health Service of the University of California at Berkeley from 1990-2004. Dr. Mattson is a member of the clinical faculty at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center.
Dr. Mattson specializes in knee arthroscopy and Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. He uses minimally invasive state-of-the-art arthroscopic allografts (donor grafts) for ACL Reconstructions. Dr. Mattson has one of the largest series of soft tissue allograft ACL Reconstructions in Northern California.
Dr. Seppo E. Rapo graduated from Wheaton College (Illinois) in 1960, and from Harvard Medical School in 1964. He went through his general surgical residency at Boston City Hospital and at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut, with two years in between where he proudly served his country in the United States Navy as a Lieutenant Commander.
After a Fellowship in Cardio-Thoracic Surgery at the University of Helsinki, Dr. Rapo was in practice from 1972 until July 2004 at the Cape Cod Hospital. He was the president of the Cape Cod Surgical Associates during that time. He is also a clinical instructor in surgery at Boston University School of Medicine and serves as a Diplomat to the American Board of Surgery.
He was the Chief of the Department of Surgery at Cape Cod Hospital from 1984 to 1986, and served as the Chairman for the Committee on Applicants for the American College of Surgeons – Massachusetts Third District. For the past five years he has been the Medical Director & Principal Investigator for the Clinical Research Center of Cape Cod.