Dr. Ashikari received his M.D. at the University of Pittsburgh in 1991 and completed his surgical residency at Albert Einstein/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, N.Y. in 1996. In 1999 Dr. Ashikari finished an accredited Surgical Oncology Fellowship at the University of Chicago. He is currently an active member in the Society of Surgical Oncology as well as New York Surgical Society and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, F.A.C.S. He has been designated as one of America’s Top Surgeons by the Consumer Research Council of America for his contributions to Surgical Oncology as well as one of the Top Doctors in the New York Metropolitan Area for the last 5 years and has been enumerated as such in the most recent New York Magazine and Westchester Magazine.

Dr. Ashikari has a background in tumor immunology with publications in both breast cancer and melanoma and is published in multiple peer-reviewed journals. He has a special interest in high risk screening of breast cancer patients and prophylactic surgery for risk reduction. He currently is involved in clinical research in nipple/areolar sparing mastectomies for high risk patients as well as clinical research involving intraoperative radiation during breast conservation surgery.

Dr. Ashikari currently sees patients in the Dobbs Ferry Pavilion of the St. John’s Riverside Health System as well as in Hudson Valley Hospital as part of the nationally accredited Ashikari Comprehensive Breast Center. He specializes in cancer surgery with a multi-disciplinary approach in close cooperation with a team of medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, plastic surgeons, pathologists, and radiologists. He performs most cancer related surgeries including breast, melanoma, gastrointestinal, sarcoma, endocrine, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery.