Dr. Cappuccino is a Buffalo Spree Top Doctor! See all of our physicians who made this year's list.
Specializing In:
Breast Cancer Benign Breast Disease Culinary Medicine- Dietary intervention with cancer and wellness Therapeutic Hypothermia De-escalation of treatment Minimally Invasive Breast Cancer Treatment Oncoplastic SurgerySpecial Interests:
Growth and progression of breast carcinoma Therapeutic hypothermiaAbout Helen Cappuccino
Biography:
I am delighted to be on staff at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.
After a decade in private general surgical practice, I accepted an invitation to join Roswell exclusively in 1999. I felt it gave me an opportunity to do two things that are important to me: develop long-term relationships with my patients, and help them by surgically treating breast cancer. Being at an institute which has a multi-disciplinary approach to cancer, emphasizes state-of-the-art treatment, and offers many resources to my patients was especially important to me. Also, I like that Roswell gives my patients access to research protocols. As a Board-certified surgeon, I feel it’s important to stay current on new and effective treatments available to treat breast disease. I have written chapters in surgical textbooks, and published in scientific journals, speak to patient advocacy groups as I do my best to help assure women screen for breast cancer, understand the disease and are treated properly for breast cancer and other breast issues. More recently, I have been involved in teaching Culinary Medicine at the University of Buffalo, and am very interested in healthy living as a way of preventing and treating cancer.
When not in the hospital, my husband Andy (a Roswell Park cancer survivor (AML 2014), spine surgeon, medical inventor, and a team doctor for the Buffalo Bills) and I enjoy time with our six children, currently aged 27-41, and our grandson. We heed the call of civic duty, and I'm active on several local non-profit boards, including the UB, Western New York Women's Foundation and the Albright Knox Art Gallery. My husband and I have been involved in medical mission work here and abroad (Kenya). I consider it a privilege to care for patients.
Positions
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Assistant Professor of Oncology
- Breast Surgery Division, Department of Surgical Oncology
Jacobs School Of Medicine And Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Rochester Strong Memorial
- Assistant Professor of Surgery
Background
Education and Training:
- MD - University at Buffalo School of Medicine (Cum Laude), Buffalo, NY
Residency:
- Monmouth Medical Center, Long Beach, NJ
- Jersey Shore Memorial Medical Center, Neptune, NJ
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Board Certification:
- American Board of Surgery
- Certified by the American Board of Surgery
- Basic Life Support
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- Advanced Trauma Life Support
Professional Memberships:
- American College of Surgeons - fellow
- American Medical Association
- Medical Alumni Association SUNY Buffalo
- American Society for Clinical Oncology
- FAA Examiner
- ASCO - American Society of Clinical Oncology
- Western New York Chapter ACS- President 2001-2002, President Elect 2000-2001, Secretary 1999-2000, Treasurer 1998-1999, Young Surgeon Representative to National ACS
- American Medical Association
- Medical Alumni Association SUNY Buffalo 1988-present, Treasurer 2005-2006, Vice-President 2006-2007, President 2007-2008, emeritus- current
- Erie County Medical Society
Honors & Awards:
- 2020, 2021, 2022 - Buffalo SpreeTop Doc
- 2019 - Woman of Influence - Inspiration Award
- 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 - Castle Connelly Top Doc
- 2018 - Castle Connelly Top Docs - Breast Surgery
- 2017 - Business First Health Care Hero
- 2016 - University of Buffalo Volunteer of the Year Award, Medical School
- May 2014 - Keynote Speaker John S Koplas Memorial Lecture Series
- 2010 - Western New York Community Leader Healthcare Award- National Federation of Just Communities (WNY chapter)
- 1995-1997 - AMA Physician Recognition Award
- 1995 - Positive Physician Project- Selected as one of America’s fifty most positive physicians
Featured on Cancer Talk
Publications
Being a Woman Surgeon: 60 Women Share Their Stories- author two selections (pub April 2015)
The Best of Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and the Covenant of Caring
The Best Medicine: Stories of Doctors and Patients who Care for Each Other, Positive Doctors in America