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Sean T. Canale, MD, FACS

 

Board Certified - American Board of Surgery

 

Fellow - American College of Surgeons

 

Member - American Society of Breast Surgeons

 

Member - American Society of Breast Disease

Dr. Sean T. Canale opened Carolina Breast Care Specialists, PA on May 15, 2006 to fill what he felt was a need for quality specialized care for the women of Carolina in the area of Breast Health.

 

Dr. Canale has lived in Raleigh with his wife and two children since April 2001.  Prior to that, he was in private practice in a multispecialty clinic in New Orleans and also worked at a breast specialty clinic there.

 

Throughout his career, Dr. Canale has held an interest in breast health issues.  He has devoted his career to building skills and knowledge in this area.  He is an active member of the American Society of Breast Surgeons and the American Society of Breast Disease (having served on the Communications Committee and Membership Committee for the latter).  Dr. Canale previously co-chaired the Breast Care Committee at Rex Hospital and single handedly established the first and only weekly breast specific multidisciplinary tumor conference in Wake County.

 

Specialty skills include breast ultrasound, ultrasound and stereotactic guided procedures, image guided minimally invasive biopsies (including vacuum assisted core biopsy), sentinel lymph node mapping/biopsy, MammoSite/SAVI placement for accelerated partial breast irradiation, and cryoablation of benign breast lesions.

 

 

 

 

Sean T. Canale, MD, FACS

 
Carolina Breast Care Specialists, PA

 

4414 Lake Boone Trail, Suite 211

 

Raleigh, NC 27607

 

919-741-5966  voice          919-571-4330  fax

 

seantcanale@doctor.com

 


 


 


 

Practice History/Employment:

 


 

04/06 – present Carolina Breast Care Specialists, P.A.

 

Raleigh, NC

 

Breast Surgery

 


 

04/01 – 04/06 Capital Surgical Associates, P.A.

 

Raleigh, NC

 

General Surgery

 


 

06/00 – 04/01 The Breast Center at Memorial Medical Center

 

New Orleans, LA

 

Breast Surgery

 


 

08/00 – 04/01 Kenner Regional Medical Center

 

Kenner, LA

 

General Surgery

 


 

07/97– 04/01 Louisiana State University School of Medicine

 

New Orleans, LA

 

Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery

 


 

08/96 – 04/01 Browne McHardy Clinic

 

Metairie, LA

 

Senior Physician, Department of General Surgery

 


 

01/87 - 05/87 Georgetown University Department of Biology

 

Washington, D.C.

 

Teaching Assistant - Mammalian Physiology

 


 

08/86 - 12/86 Georgetown University Department of Biology

 

Washington, D.C.

 

Teaching Assistant - Comparative Anatomy

 


 

08/85 - 12/85 Georgetown University Department of Biology

 

Washington, D.C.

 

Teaching Assistant - Introductory Biology

 

 

 

Board Certification:

 


 

06/97 - present American Board of Surgery

 


 

Post Graduate Training:

 


 

07/94 - 06/96 Maine Medical Center

 

Portland, ME

 

Residency in General Surgery (PGY4- PGY5)

 


 

07/91 - 06/94 Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation

 

New Orleans, LA

 

Residency in General Surgery (PGY1 - PGY3)

 


 

Education:

 


 

08/87 - 05/91 Louisiana State University School of Medicine

 

New Orleans, LA

 

Medical Doctorate

 


 

06/88 - 08/88 Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation

 

New Orleans, LA

 

Clinical Clerkship in Transplant Surgery

 


 

10/89 - 11/89 Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation

 

New Orleans, LA

 

Externship in Transplant Surgery

 


 

08/83 - 05/87 Georgetown University

 

Washington, D.C.

 

B.S. Biology, Cum Laude

 


 

06/86 - 07/86 Villa Le Balze

 

Fiesole, Italy

 

Intensive Intermediate Italian

 


 

06/85 - 07/85 University of Nice

 

Nice, France

 

Cours Superieur

 


 

08/78 - 05/83 Jesuit High School

 

New Orleans, LA

 

Summa Cum Laude

 

 

 

Additional Training/Certification:

 


 

10/03 MammoSite Partial Breast Radiation Course

 

Dallas, TX

 


 

04/02 Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Course

 

American Society of Breast Surgeons, Boston, MA

 


 

08/98 Bard Mesh PerFix Plug Hernia Repair Training

 

Newark, New Jersey

 


 

07/98 Kugel Hernia Repair Training Course

 

Dallas, Texas

 


 

03/98 2nd Annual John Ray Endorectal Ultrasonography Course

 

Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, New Orleans, LA

 


 

04/97 Image Guided Breast Biopsy

 

American College of Surgeons, San Diego, California

 


 

04/97 Ultrasound for the General Surgeon

 

American College of Surgeons, San Diego, California

 


 

03/97 Advanced Operative Laparoscopy for General Surgeons

 

Advanced Laparoscopy Training Center, Marietta, Georgia

 

 

Society Memberships/Appointments:

 

American College of Surgeons

 

North Carolina Chapter – American College of Surgeons

 

American Society of Breast Surgeons

 

American Society of Breast Disease

 

     Communications Committee 2002 - 2008

Membership Committee 2008 

 

Louisiana Breast Cancer Task Force

 

Rex Hospital

 

     Medical Records Committee, 2002 – 2003

 

      Breast Cancer Center Steering Committee, 2003 – 2004

 

      Breast Care Committee, Co-Chair, 2004 – 2008

 

      Multidisciplinary Tumor Conf. Coordinator, 2004 – 2006

 

      Cancer Center Committee, 2004 - 2008

 


 

East Jefferson General Hospital

 

      Oncology Committee, 2000-2001

 


 

Browne McHardy Clinic

 

      Utilization Review Committee, 1996 - 2001

 

      Quality Assurance Committee, 2000

 

North Carolina Medical Society

 

Wake County Medical Society

 

Raleigh Academy of Medicine

 

Jefferson Parish Medical Society

 

      Community Relations Committee, 1998 - 1999

 

      Delegate to State Convention, 1998 - 1999

 

Louisiana State Medical Society

 

      Public Relations Committee, 1999-2001

 

      Committee on Evolving Trends in Medicine, 2000 - 2001

 

      Chronic Diseases Committee, 2000 – 2001


 

 

Publications/Presentations:


 

"SABCS 2005: Updates on Surgical Diagnosis, Staging, and Therapy", Rex Cancer Center, January 17, 2006. 


"Sentinel Node Mapping/Biopsy: San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposim 2004 Update", Rex Cancer Center, March 29, 2005.

"Apple-a-Day Program: Breast Cancer 2004", Rex Cancer Center, October 6, 2004.

 

"Breast Cancer 2004", Outreach Program, Rex Cancer Center, January 17, 2004.

 

"North Carolina Now - Healthwise", UNC-TV, December 16, 2003.

 

"Partial Breast Radiation Using MammoSite", Rex Hospital, October 23, 2003.

  

"Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping/Biopsy in Breast Cancer", North Carolina Ambulatory Surgery Center Symposium, November 2, 2002.

 

"Doctors On Call", WRAL Television, 2002, 2003.

 

"Breast Cancer Chemoprevention – When is Tamoxifen Appropriate?", CME presentation, August 10, 2000.

 

"Physicians and Medical Information Systems", CME presentation, Lafayette General Medical Center, May 22, 2000.

 

"Breast Cancer Awareness Month", Press Release, Louisiana State Medical Society, October 1999.

 

"Breast Cancer Awareness ", Letter to the Editor, Times Picayune , October 1,1999.

 

"Healthline - Let's Talk", Topic: Breast Disease, WLAE Television, May 24, 1999.

 

"Battle of the Bulge: The History of Hernia Surgery", Grand Rounds, Department of Surgery,Maine Medical Center, May 9, 1996.

 

"Beneficial Effects of Low Dose Cyclosporine in Uninephrectomized Rats"; Adam Meyers, Sean T. Canale, et al, Transplantation, 49(5): 879-882, May 1990.