Dr. Shyam Dahiya, MD

Education

• Graduate School
  Chapman University: Degree MBA
  Orange, California, May 1998
  
  
• Fellowship
  Stehlin Foundation for Cancer Research
  Houston, Texas, Surgical Oncology
  1984-1986
  
  
• Residency
  Sinai Hospital of Detroit (affiliated with Wayne State Univ. School of Medicine)
  General Surgery, 1972-1976
  
  
• Internships
  Illinois Masonic Medical Center
  1971 – 1972
  
  
• Medical School
  Medical College Rohtak; Degree of M.B.; B.S.
  1965 – 1970
  
  
• College
  Government College Rohtak, Punjab University
  India 1963-1965

Academic Experience

Instructor, Surgical Residency Program
Sinai Hospital of Detroit, 1980 – 1982

License

• Michigan, 1974
• California, 1983
• Texas, 1984

Board Certification

• American Board of Surgery, 1977, 1986 (re-certification)
• Royal College of Surgeons (Canada), 1978

Private Practice

• Detroit, Michigan 1976 – 1984
• Long Beach, California 1986 – Present

Administrative Position

Chairman, Department of Surgery 1995 – Present
St. Mary Medical Center
Long Beach, California

Professional Societies

• Fellow, American College of Surgeons, 1979
• Fellow, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Canada), 1978
• Michigan State Medical Society, 1976 – 1986
• Wayne County Medical Society, 1976 – 1986
• Detroit Academy of Surgery, 1979 – 1986
• Sinai Hospital Alumni Association, 1976
• Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1987
• California Medical Association, 1987
• American Society of Bariatric Surgeons, 2001

Publications

• Cancer of the Breast, A Ten Year Study of Partial Mastectomy.
  Surg Gynecol Obstet. 165; 191-198, 1987
• Multi Centricity of Breast Carcinoma – A Case Against Partial Mastectomy.
  Int. Surg. 64 (5), 1979
• Delayed Rupture of the Spleen. Int Surg, 61 (5), 1976
• Surgical Management of Thyroid Carcinoma. Sinai Bulletin. 24 (1), 1976
• Cervical Thymoma. Int. Surg. 60 (5), 1975

Presentations

• "Thyroid Carcinoma; Surgical Management" presented at the 59th Annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, October 1973
• "Multi Centricity of Breast Carcinoma; A Case Against Partial Mastectomy" presented to the Sinai Hospital Alumni Association, June 1975, and to the Detroit Surgical Association, October 1976
• "Effects of Methionine Enkephalins of Canine Cardiovascular System" presented at Collar Day, 1983, at the University of Michigan

Awards and Achievements

• Resident of the Year, Sinai Hospital of Detroit, 1976
• Third Prize for paper presented at the Scientific Session, Alumni Day, Sinai Hospital of Detroit, 197
• Honorable Mention for paper presented at the Scientific Session, Alumni Day, Sinai Hospital of Detroit, 1976

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