As a surgeon in training, Dr. Conrad honed his expertise by pursuing advanced training opportunities around the globe. After completing his first fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Conrad chose to enhance his expertise with an advanced fellowship at the Institut Mutualiste Moutsouris in Paris, the only place to learn about less traumatic ways to operate on the liver and the pancreas at the time.

Next, he continued on to Japan to study with a master of minimally invasive surgery at the University of Tokyo. He embraced the Japanese ideal of true expertise, not just competency, with meticulous attention to detail and appreciation for anatomy. His practice combines this precision with the Western conception of surgical oncology — the idea that surgeons should consider all aspects of a patient’s cancer treatment, not just the procedure.