Adam Raben MD

Dr. Raben is a graduate of Duke University and a 1990 graduate of Wake Forest University School of Medicine. During medical school, he was a visiting scholar and basic science researcher in 1989 in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital through Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. Dr. Raben completed residency training in Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from 1991 to 1993 and served as chief resident from 1993 to1994. He received specialty training in brachytherapy during residency. Dr. Raben was a faculty member in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering from 1994 to 1998. He co-authored the Lung Cancer chapter in DeVita’s Principles and Practice of Oncology in 1996. He is also a co-author of numerous national publications related to the treatment of head, neck, lung and prostate cancer.

Dr. Raben was recruited and appointed Chairman of Radiation Oncology at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J. in 1998 and directed the program until 2003. During this time, he developed a comprehensive prostate brachytherapy program. He was responsible for the introduction of Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), an advanced form of conformal radiation, at Monmouth Medical Center and at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute.