Surgeons’ Lives - Stuff that Matters9 Helmi 2025

Patrick Borgen MD talks Breast Cancer, Royalty, Brooklyn and Dirtbikes

Patrick Borgen is the Chair of the Dept of Surgery at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn New York.

He also heads-up the breast program which he has developed into the only accredited breast center in Brooklyn serving over 3 million people.

Although he was born in South Dakota on a military base, he grew up in Louisiana, where he went to medical school and did his residency before moving for a Research Fellowship to Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York.

He spent almost 20 years at Memorial rising to the position of Chief of the breast service.

About 10 years ago, he moved to Brooklyn, and in this conversation, he describes the culture shock of moving from an ivory tower facility full of the rich and famous to a borough where more than 50% of the patients are either under insured or have no insurance at all.

Despite that, he hasn't regretted his move for a moment and tells us about the challenges and fulfillment of working in such a setting.

When he goes home at night to his farm in New Jersey he can have fun with his dirt bikes or go out fishing in his boat. He also has a 1970s triumph sports car to take him on country drives.

In a thoroughly illuminating talk with a man who almost certainly qualifies as a polymath, he talks about the changes he has seen in breast cancer management, his brushes with royalty and celebrity as well as where he sees the future of cancer medicine is going.

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