Amanda Nickles Fader MD

Amanda Nickles Fader, M.D., a widely published and internationally recognized surgeon with a specialty in minimally invasive women’s cancer surgery and obesity and cancer, has joined Johns Hopkins Medicine as director of the Kelly Gynecologic Oncology Service and director of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Center in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. She also holds the appointment of associate professor of gynecologic oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Fader has extensive training in the use of special laparoscopic and robotics to perform complex gynecologic cancer operations. Prior to her appointment at Johns Hopkins, she served as an associate director of gynecologic oncology and director of robotic surgery at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She was A graduate of the University of Virginia, Fader received her medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia and took postgraduate training at the Magee-Women's Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and at the Cleveland Clinic. She was a board-certified gynecologic oncologist.