Jessica Kandel

Who is Jessica Kandel?

Jessica Kandel is the Surgeon-in-Chief, http://www.uchicagokidshospital.org The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital], Mary Campau Ryerson Professor of Surgery and Chief, Section of Pediatric Surgery, and the Vice-Chair for Pediatric Surgical Services.

Kandel graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yale University in 1981, and completed her MD degree at Columbia University in 1985. She then went on to a General Surgery residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. During her residency, Kandel completed a two-year surgical research fellowship with Dr. Judah Folkman at the Boston Children's Hospital, investigating mechanisms of tumor angiogenesis.

Kandel joined Columbia University in 1995, becoming the Director of the Charles Edison Laboratory for Pediatric Surgical Research in 2000 and, in 2001, co-organized the first Columbia University Arden House Symposium on Angiogenesis. Kandel was a founding member of the Vascular Anomalies Group at Columbia, a multidisciplinary team treating children with vascular malformations, hemangioma, lymphatic tumors, and other disorders of vessel development. She was named the R. Peter Altman Chair in Pediatric Surgery at Columbia University in 2009, as a Professor of Surgery & Pediatrics in the Institute of Cancer Genetics at Columbia University.