Vivian Jolley Bea MD, MBS, FACS

Dr. Vivian J. Bea, a board-certified breast surgical oncologist, is section chief of breast surgical oncology at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. She also serves as an assistant professor of surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is a breast disparities researcher, educator, community outreach leader, entrepreneur, and best-selling children’s book author.

Dr. Bea attended Morehouse School of Medicine whose mission was to serve the underserved. After her matriculation from Morehouse, Dr. Bea continued on to the Medical University of South Carolina General Surgery Residency training program in Charleston, SC. Dr. Bea was then awarded the highly coveted Breast Surgical Oncology fellowship position at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. She then served as a breast surgical oncologist in the division of breast surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper in Camden, NJ where she chaired the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Program.

Dr. Bea’s primary research efforts have focused on modifiable risk factors and outcomes in ethnic populations. In the community, her primary initiative has been to bridge the gap between multidisciplinary breast cancer treatment and community barriers.