Career
He is chair of the Department of Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Scardino joined Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York in 1998, as head of MSKCC’s Prostate Cancer Program and chief of the Urology Service, where he was awarded the Murray F. Brennan Chair in Surgery. He currently holds the David H. Koch Chair.
He became Chair of the Department of Surgery in 2006.
He is also a professor in the Department of Urology at Weill Cornell Medical College and at State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. Scardino has written extensively about his field and is an editor of The Comprehensive Textbook of Genitourinary Oncology He co-wrote the consumer book, Doctor Peter Scardino’s Prostate Book The Completed Guide to Prostate Cancer, Prostatitis, and Benign Prostate Hyperplasia.
