Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Surgery
·
2021 - Present
Surgical Oncology,
Surgery
Recent Publications
The Association of Care Fragmentation on Overall Survival for Early Stage Breast Cancer.
Journal Article J Surg Res · February 2025 INTRODUCTION: Optimal treatment of stage I-III breast cancer requires multimodal therapies. Patients can receive these therapies at one or multiple facilities. Herein, we evaluated the association of receiving treatment at more than one facility and distan ... Full text Link to item CiteTriple-Negative Breast Cancer in Older Patients: Does SLNB Guide Therapy?
Journal Article Ann Surg Oncol · December 2024 BACKGROUND: Older breast cancer patients represent a heterogeneous population. Studies demonstrate that sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) omission may be appropriate in some clinical scenarios, yet patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) are oft ... Full text Link to item CiteRates of Pathologic Complete Response and Overall Survival in Patients with Inflammatory Breast Cancer: A National Cancer Database Study.
Conference Ann Surg Oncol · November 2024 BACKGROUND: Patients with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) have worse survival compared with stage III non-IBC matched cohorts; however, the prognostic significance of achieving pathologic complete response (pCR) in the setting of IBC is not well described ... Full text Link to item CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine ·
2014
M.D.
University of North Carolina, Pembroke ·
2009
B.S.