Francois Cornelis MD, PhD

Francois H. Cornelis is an interventional radiologist who specializes in neuro interventions and image-guided minimally invasive therapies that allow for pain palliation and tumor control in the bones and spine. He uses a variety of technologies to treat tumors and cancer-related pain, such as radiofrequency and microwave energy, cryotherapy, focused ultrasound, and electroporation, as well as image-guided modalities, including navigation software, MRI, robotics, and PET-CT-guided procedures. He also has experience with intra-arterial chemotherapy infusion in head and neck tumors.

His primary goal at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is to relieve cancer-related distress and improve the quality of life for all patients who are undergoing treatment for cancer at our center. When he is not working with patients to provide therapy, He pursuing research, mainly into intra-arterial therapies for brain tumors and in the fields of mentoplasty, osteoplasty, and fixation — which help reinforce bones to reduce pain.

He received his MD in 2003 and completed his radiology training and his fellowship in 2008 and 2010, respectively, at the University of Bordeaux in France. He stayed on the faculty, with appointments in Radiology at the Bergonié Institute (2010) and the University of Bordeaux (2012). In 2013, He received a Fulbright scholarship and spent two years at MSK, the first year as a research fellow and the second year as a research associate. He was appointed as a tenured professor of radiology in France in 2017 and served as Chief of the Department of Interventional Radiology and Oncology at the Sorbonne University in Paris before heading to New York.

He is a long-distance runner and have run the New York City Marathon several times in partnership with Fred’s Team.