Location Cleveland, Ohio, United States Regions Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
Brian Gastman was recruited from his practice of almost six years from the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins Schools of medicine in October 2010. Dr. Gastman completed his medical school education at the University of Michigan and then went on to train at the University of Pittsburgh for two distinct residencies in Otolaryngology and Plastic
Surgery. While there he was part of a NIH funded T32 training grant, during which he honed his skills in basic research of cancer. In addition, Dr. Gastman completed fellowship training at Washington University in St. Louis, in Head and Neck surgery and microsurgery. Prior to arriving at CCF, Dr. Gastman was awarded a RO1 NIH grant which was a large basis for his laboratory specializing in tumor immunology and treatment resistance.
Currently, Dr Gastman is a double boarded Plastic Surgeon and Otolaryngologist with specific interests in the comprehensive care of soft tissue malignancies, such as melanoma, non-melanoma skin cancers, sarcomas and head and neck cancer. His additional fellowships in head and neck surgery, microsurgery and cancer research allows him to deal with these types of patients from an extirpative and reconstructive standpoint, as well as using his grasp of current non-traditional therapies and research to better council patients through these challenging pathologies. Currently Dr. Gastman has helped to institute a successful melanoma and soft tissue cancer clinic housed at the Taussig Cancer Center. At this clinic patients can be seen by not only him for extirpative and reconstructive consults, but also by medical and radiation oncologists all in the same setting. By creating such programs for patients Dr. Gastman strives to provide state of the art medicine all in the most expeditious and comprehensive fashion.
As a plastic surgeon he also specializes in complex reconstruction of the craniomaxillofacial skeleton, facial plastic surgery and is on the facial transplantation team. As an otolaryngologist, he uses his training to provide advanced treatment of nasal airway diseases as well as nasal reconstruction, e.g. rhinoplasty, and treatment of head and neck and skull base pathologies. Finally, Dr. Gastman also performs general reconstruction and cosmetic surgery of the trunk, abdomen and extremities and is an expert in non-surgical treatment of aging.
Currently, Dr. Gastman is the medical and surgical director for CCF's melanoma and high risk skin cancer program. He oversees clinical trials, patient access and quality for this program. On his team includes oncologists, surgeons, pathologists, radiation oncologists, dermatologists and many more specialized individuals all working in concert to give patients the best possible and most up-to-date care. Dr. Gastman also is part of the Society of Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC)'s Melanoma Task Force and sits on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)'s:Melanoma, Squamous and Basal Cell skin cancer, Merkel Cell Carcinoma and Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans cancer treatment guideline committees. He is also part of the Merkel Cell Carcinoma international consortium. Dr. Gastman is also highly involved with the NCI based Cancer Immunotherapy Trial's network (CITN), ECOG and SWOG, which helps him bring in some of the latest clinical trials to the Cleveland Clinic.
