Physician
Specialties:
Breast Surgery
Colon & Rectal Surgery
Surgical Oncology
Board Certifications:
  • General Surgery

Background & Education

  • Fellowship in Surgical Oncology
    City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA
  • Research Fellow in Surgical Education
    Association of Surgical Education, Springfield, IL
  • Residency in General Surgery, Chief Resident
    Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, TX
  • Internship in General Surgery
    Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, TX
  • Medical Doctorate
    Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Bryan-College Station, TX

Surgical Locations

  • Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin
  • St. David's Health Care

Publications

High Throughput Analysis of Human Pancreatic Duct Fluid (Juice) Proteome Using HPLC Chip MS Technology
Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) Congress, 2007

Peer Review as a Tool to Assess Professionalism and Interpersonal & Communication
Association of American Medical Colleges, RIME Conference, 2007

Physicians in a Private Teaching Hospital - Perceptions of Continuing Medical Education
Continuing Medical Education (CME) Congress, 2008

Comparative Proteomic Analysis to Identify Pancreatic Cancer Biomarker in Pancreatic Cancer Duct Fluid (Juice) using lD-Gel, OFFGEL, and High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Ch's ip-Mass Spectrometry Technology
Society of Surgical Oncology 61st Annual Cancer Symposium, 2008

What Do General Surgery Residents Think About Childbearing and Childrearing During Residency?
Surgical Education Research Forum, 2009

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Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC): An Institutional Review
ASCO GI Cancers Symposium, 2009

Differential Expression of Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier Family of Proteins in Patients with Colorectal Adenocarcinoma
ASCO GI Cancers Symposium, 2011

Impact of Therapeutic Intervention on Survival in Patients with Cholangiocarcinoma
Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 52nd Annual Meeting, 2011

Differential Expression of Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier Family of Proteins in Patients with Colorectal Adenocarcinoma
Society of Surgical Oncology 64th Annual Cancer Symposium, 2011

Evaluation of Patient Age and Outcomes of Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Cancer
Pacific Coast Surgical Association 82nd Annual Meeting, 2011

Racial Disparities in the Management of Patients with Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
45th Annual Pancreas Club Meeting, 2011

Surgery for Patients with Local and Regional Pancreatic Cancer: The Los Angeles County Experience
45th Annual Pancreas Club Meeting, 2011

The Extent of Lymphadenectomy Does Not Correlate with Overall Survival in Korean-Americans with Gastric Cancer
International Gastric Cancer Conference, 2011

Increased Expression of Small Ubiquitin-like Modifer Proteins in Rectal Adenocarcinoma Patients after Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation
American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, 2011

The Timing of Chemotherapy Correlates With Survival in Patients With Resectable Gastric Adenocarcinoma
American Surgical Association 132nd Annual Meeting, 2012

The Influence of Surgical Oncology Fellowship Programs in Training Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgeons
ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, 2012

Surgical Oncology Fellowship Graduates: What Are They Doing Now?
Society of Surgical Oncology 65th Annual Cancer Symposium, 2012

Palliative Care Consults in Terminal Cancer Patients Dying in a Safety-Net Hospital: Are They Underutilized?
Sixth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved, 2013

Clinical Stage, Not Race Predicts Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Medically-Underserved Patients
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, 2013

Effective Management of Symptoms during Preoperative Chemoradiation for Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer
International Journal of Radiation Oncology/Biology/Physics, 2000

Late Complications of Postoperative Radiation Therapy for Carcinoma of the Cervix
International Journal of Radiation Oncology/Biology/Physics, 2001

Surgical Complications and Pathologic Complete Response After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer
The American Surgeon, 2011

An Appraisal of Radiofrequency Ablation and Surgical Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Results from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Registry
The American Surgeon, 2012

Impact of Medical and Surgical Intervention on Survival in Patients with Cholangiocarcinoma
World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, 2013

Interaction Between Age and Race Alters Predicted Survival in Colorectal Cancer
Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2013

Perineal Wound Complications after Abdominoperineal Resection
Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery, 2008

Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Indications and Controversies
Maturitas, 2011

Tube Jejunostomy: Open and Laparoscopic Techniques
Operative Techniques in Surgery, 2013