He completed his undergraduate training at Pennsylvania State University and obtained his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. His general surgery residency was performed at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. Dr. Sabel completed an NIH-T32 research fellowship in tumor immunology and a surgical oncology fellowship at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY. Dr. Sabel joined the University of Michigan faculty in 2001. He has been listed in Best Doctors in America in Surgical Oncology every year since 2007 and has named as one of the U.S. News and World Report Top Doctors in Surgery since 2011.