Chief, Orthopaedic Service; Stephen McDermott Chair in Surgery
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Healey is an orthopaedic surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and specializes in caring for people with sarcomas and noncancerous tumors of the bones and soft tissue. He has particular expertise in removing tumors while preserving limbs and a special interest in treating children who have bone cancers, such as osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma. He has been at MSK since 1984 and performs approximately 260 surgeries each year. n addition to his role as Chief of the Orthopaedic Service at MSK, he is a professor of orthopaedic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, and has served as chair of the Children’s Oncology Group Orthopaedics Section, president of the International Society of Limb Salvage, and president of the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons, and is an advisor to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.