Atrium Health Navicent Specialty Center
About Us
Dr. Arnold Conforti
Dr. Conforti offers 20 years of experience as a reputable Surgical Oncologist in Middle Georgia who specializes in minimally invasive surgery. He graduated from Georgetown University Medical School and completed his fellowship in Surgical Oncology at John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, California. Dr. Conforti owned his own private surgical oncology practice for more than 20 years, and he has joined Atrium Health Navicent Specialty Center to provide his patients with optimal convenience and outstanding care due to the practice being housed in the Peyton Anderson Cancer Center where he can meet the healthcare needs for most of his patients in one location. Today, Dr. Conforti also works with the residents in the General Surgical Residency Program to help train the surgeons of the future.
Dr. Paul Dale
Dr. Dale received his Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering followed by his MD from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He completed his surgical residency training at Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, Georgia and then completed a Surgical Oncology fellowship at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, in 1995. He was in private surgical oncology practice for 10 years in Macon, GA and was appointed the first Chief of Surgical Oncology at Mercer University School of Medicine. In 2004 he relocated to Columbia, Missouri where he held the title of Chief of Surgical Oncology and held the Margaret Proctor Mulligan Professorship in Breast Cancer Research at the University Of Missouri School Of Medicine. He was also the director of the University of Missouri Biodesign and Innovation program, one of only 4 such programs in the nation. In 2012 Dr. Dale became the Director of Ellis Fischel Cancer center, the oldest cancer center west of the Mississippi. In addition to many presentations, publications and book chapters Dr. Dale holds 2 US patents for the detection of cancer cells using photoacoustic technology and received over $3,000,000 in grant funding for research at the University of Missouri. In October of 2014 he returned to The Medical Center of Central Georgia, Navicent Health and Mercer University School of Medicine where he is now the Chief of Surgical Oncology and assistant Dean of Translational Research and has an active surgical oncology clinical practice as co director of the Peyton Anderson Cancer Center.