Specialty
As co-chair of the melanoma team at Winship, Dr. Delman leads the multidisciplinary care of nearly half of all patients diagnosed with melanoma in the state of Georgia each year.
Titles and Roles
- Professor, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Associate Chair, Faculty and Clinical Affairs, Department of Surgery
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Interim Surgeon-in-Chief
- Grady Memorial Hospital
- Carlos Professor of Surgical Anatomy and Techniques
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Director, Carlos and Davis Center for Surgical Anatomy and Technique
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Surgical Oncologist
- Melanoma
- Skin Cancer
- Sarcoma
- Research Program
- Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics
Biography
Keith Delman, MD, FACS, is Professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology of the Department of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Delman also serves as associate chair of faculty and clinical affairs for the Emory Department of Surgery and director of the Carlos and Davis Center for Surgical Anatomy and Technique (CSAT). A board certified surgeon, Dr. Delman's practice also focuses on treating complex cutaneous oncology, including sarcoma, adnexal tumors of the skin, and merkel cell carcinoma.
Dr. Delman is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the executive council of the Association of Program Directors in Surgery, a member of the International Melanoma Working Group and chair of the training committee of the Society of Surgical Oncology. He is also an Associate Member of the American College of Surgeons' Academy of Master Surgeon Educators™.
In 2009, Dr. Delman and Emory urologist Dr. Viraj Master were the first team in the world to perform minimally invasive inguino-femoral lymphadenectomy for melanoma. Since then, the team has taught the procedure to surgeons from over a dozen institutions located around the world.
Education
Dr. Delman obtained his medical degree from Stony Brook School of Medicine and completed his internship and residencies at Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Delman completed a research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and a surgical oncology fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Research
Dr. Delman's research interests include clinical and translational research involving tumors of the skin and soft tissue.
Publications
Dr. Delman serves as associate editor of CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and is on the editorial boards of Current Problems in Cancer, and the Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE). He also serves as Section Editor, Melanoma for Annals of Surgical Oncology.
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Awards
Dr. Delman has received numerous awards including a Dean's Teaching Award and a Mentoring Award from Emory University School of Medicine, the Shipley Award of the Southern Surgical Society, and the Kennedy Seed Grant Research Award with Dr. Mandy Ford. He is an inductee of the MilliPub Club, which recognizes current Emory University School of Medicine faculty who have published one or more individual papers throughout their careers that have garnered more than 1,000 citations. He has been consistently listed in Atlanta Magazine's annual "Top Doctors" issue.