Sahar Salehi

Sahar Salehi

Affiliated to Research | Docent
Visiting address: Widerströmska huset, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17177 Stockholm
Postal address: K6 Kvinnors och barns hälsa, K6 NOGRH Falconer Salehi, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • I am a surgeon and Director of ovarian cancer surgery at the department of
    Pelvic Cancer, Karolinska University Hospital and Associate Professor at Karolinska Institutet.
    In the clinic I focus on advanced ovarian cancer surgery as well as
    robot-assisted surgery for cervical and endometrial cancer.
    My research is both clinical and translational with focus on the effect of
    surgical treatment on outcome in ovarian, cervical and endometrial cancer.

    1997-2003 Medical School at Karolinska Institutet
    2003-2004 Internship Sunderby Hospital, Luleå, Sweden
    2004-2009 Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stockholm South General
    Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
    2009 Board Certified Gynecologist
    2010-2014 Subspecialist training in Gynecologic Oncology, Karolinska
    University Hospital
    2014 Certified Surgical Gynecologic Oncologist
    2018 PhD with thesis “Robot-assisted laparoscopy and sentinel node biopsy
    in high risk endometrial cancer”