Physician Bios
 Raafat Z. Abdel-Misih, M.D.
Dr. Abdel-Misih is the director of the Hepatobiliary
Pancreatic Multidisciplinary Center with the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center. He has
also served as chief of Surgical Services for Christiana Care since 1995
and as vice-chairman of the Department of Surgery since 1993. Dr. Abdel-Misih has
been a surgeon since 1981. He is Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
at Thomas Jefferson University.
He completed his general surgery residency (1977-1980) and was
chief surgical resident (1980-1981) with the Medical Center of Delaware, now Christiana Care
Health System. He has had fellowships with the Royal College of Surgeons
of England and Edinburgh.
He was Registrar/General Surgery, Urology and Orthopedic Surgery with Bradford Royal Infirmary (175-1977); Senior House Officer/Surgery,
Urology and Orthopedic Surgery, Bradford Royal Infirmary (1974-1975); House Officer in Surgery, Bronglais
General Hospital (1973); and Senior House Officer/Emergency Medicine, Walton Hospital (1971-1972), all
of the United Kingdom.
Dr. Abdel-Misih
is board certified in general surgery with emphasis in head and neck,
surgical oncology and laparoscopy/endoscopy.
 Joseph J. Bennett, M.D.
Dr. Bennett joined the staff at Christiana Care’s Helen F. Graham Cancer Center in 2005, following his completion of a two-year clinical fellowship in surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He had completed a two-year research fellowship at the same institution in 2000 and finished his general surgery residency at the University of Chicago.
A board-certified
surgical oncologist and the author of numerous clinical research studies, Dr. Bennett has a particular interest in hepatobiliary and pancreatic malignancies, and gastric and soft tissue malignancies and specializes in the treatment of pancreas cancer, primary liver cancer, liver metastases, stomach cancer, sarcomas and melanomas. He has lectured nationally and served as an invited guest faculty member for surgical oncology throughout the country. He was named a “Top Doctor” in Delaware for surgical oncology by Delaware Today magazine in 2007.
Dr. Bennett received his medical degree and graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York Health Sciences at Brooklyn (SUNY HSCB) in 1996. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry with honors at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY in 1992.
While studying at SUNY HSCB, he received an Endowed Honor Scholarship Award for superb performance during all four years of medical school, and he also was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society.
Dr. Bennett is currently a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and a member of the American College of Surgeons and the Society of Surgical Oncology. He serves as an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University and as an Adjunct Scientist at the Center for Translational Research in collaboration with the University of Delaware. In addition, Dr. Bennett is a full committee member of the CALGB Cooperative Group GI Surgery Committee, a research consortium for clinical trials.
 Warren Butt, M.D.
Dr. Butt is a gastroenterologist with special interest in pancreatic and
biliary cancer detection and staging. He has extensive expertise in endoscopic
ultrasound. He is a member of the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center’s Liver &
Pancreatic Multidisciplinary Center and a member of Christiana Care Health
System’s Internal Medicine Residency faculty. Dr. Butt has been in practice with
Gastroenterology Associates since 1991.
He completed his Internal Medicine Residency, Gastroenterology Residency,
Masters in Clinical Pharmacology and Staff Position all at Temple University
Hospital. Dr. Butt attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland.
Dr. Butt is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology.
 Michael F. Dzeda, M.D.
Dr. Dzeda has been with Christiana Care Health System’s Department of
Radiation Oncology since May 1999. Previously, he served Bucks Radiation
Oncology Associates and Norristown Regional Cancer Center. He was an American
Cancer Society Clinical Oncology Fellow in Radiation Oncology in 1994 to 1995.
And he served as Chief Resident in Radiation Oncology in that same year.
Dr. Dzeda received his medical degree from Louisiana State University
School of Medicine in New Orleans in 1991. He earned two Bachelor
of Science degrees in Zoology and Microbiology from LSU in 1982 and 1985.
He received a summer Research Fellowship Grant while at LSU.
Dr. Dzeda is currently a diplomate of the American Board of
Radiology and is board certified in Radiation Oncology. He is
a member of the American College of Radiology and ASTRO (American
Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology). He serves as President of the
Mid-Atlantic Society of Radiation Oncology. He serves on the Regulatory Subcommittee of ASTRO.
 Michael Dignazio, M.D.
Dr. Dignazio is an interventional radiologist in the Christiana Care
Department of Radiology. He is also a member of the radiology faculty at Johns
Hopkins Hospital and a clinical instructor in radiology at the Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine in Baltimore. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia
School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, (1989). He completed his residency in
internal medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, (1992) and his
radiology residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, (1997). In
1995, he was the Massachusetts Resident Physician Representative to the annual
meeting of the American College of Radiology. He went on to pursue a fellowship
in Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology at Johns Hopkins, which he
completed in 1999.
Dr. Dignazio is a diplomate of the American Board of Radiology, the American
Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners. He is a
member of the Radiological Society of North America, the American College of
Radiology and the American College of Physicians.
 Mark Garcia, M.D.
Dr. Garcia is the director of Christiana Care’s Vascular
& Interventional Radiology Fellowship Program and section chief of Vascular
& Interventional Radiology. He is Medical Director of the Peripheral Vascular Lab at the Center
for Heart and Vascular Health, Christiana Care Health
Services. He joined the Department of Radiology in 1997, having been
associated with Radiology Affiliates of Central New Jersey, P.A. since 1995.
He completed a Cardiovascular and Interventional
Radiology Fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia
(1994-1995) after completing residency training in diagnostic radiology at St. Francis Medical Center in Pittsburgh (1990-1994),
where he served as chief resident. He served
his internship in internal medicine at the Medical Center of Delaware
(1989-1990), after graduating from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia (1989).
Dr. Garcia is a member of the American College of
Radiology, the Society of Interventional Radiology, the Radiological Society of North
America, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Pennsylvania
Radiology Society and president of the Philadelphia Angiography and Interventional Radiology
Society. He is a peer-reviewed author and lecturer in his specialty.
 Jamil Khatri, M.D.
Dr. Khatri is a staff hematologist and oncologist with Christiana Care’s
Helen F. Graham Cancer Center serving on several multidisciplinary clinics. He
also is a member of the Center’s Translational Research team, and has been a
physician with Regional Hematology and Oncology, P.A. since 2001. Prior to that,
he was an assistant professor and consultant oncologist and hematologist with
the Liaquat National Post-Graduate Medical Center in Pakistan and was with
Cooper University Medical Center from 1992-1999.
He completed a Hematology and Oncology
Fellowship with Cooper University Medical Center (1995-1998) having completed his residency
in internal medicine (1993-1995) at Cooper. He served his internship in
internal medicine there as well (1992-1993).
Dr. Khatri is board certified in internal medicine,
medical oncology and hematology and is a member of the American Society of
Clinical Oncology and American Society of Hematology.
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