SquamousCellCarcinomaofSkin near Lee's Summit, MO

Biography: Syed Mustafa Karim, MD, is a board certified, fellowship-trained medical oncologist with Sarah Cannon at Lee's Summit Medical Center. Dr. Karim treats patients in Lee's Summit, MO. Dr. Karim has 15+ years of experience treating patients for Hematologic disorders with special interests in lung cancer, gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, breast cancer, chronic leukemia and myeloma. In addition to his oncology training with world-renowned Hematologists and Oncologists at Georgetown University, he is fellowship-trained in geriatric medicine, which gives him advanced expertise with older patients affected by cancers. Dr. Karim has an extensive research and professional publishing background and is a former assistance professor of hematology/oncology at the Hofstra University School of Medicine. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society of Hematology, and the American College of Physicians. Dr. Karim has served as Director of Breast Cancer Program at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and organized and presented at multiple international cancer meeting including National Comprehensive Cancer Network Middle East and North Africa (NCCN-MENA).

Care Philosophy: I am a member of Midwest Physicians, an integrated, multi-specialty group that strives to provide high quality, compassionate healthcare in a caring, affordable, timely and accessible manner. Our doctors collaborate with patients, their physician colleagues and other healthcare professionals to help ensure each patient's individual healthcare needs are met.