Barbara A. Pockaj, M.D.

Arizona

Medical School

Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, TN

Residency

General Surgery, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Fellowship

Immunotherapy Fellow, National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Certification

American Board of Surgery

Academic Rank

Professor of Surgery

Interests

• Surgical oncology
• Breast disease
• Breast cancer: clinical care and translational research
• Nipple-sparing mastectomy and oncoplastic techniques
• Melanoma
• Unusual skin cancers (merkel cell, angiosarcoma)
• Sarcomas: abdominal and retroperitoneal
• Gastric cancers
• Single institution and multi-institution clinical trials
• Quality of life studies in cancer patients

Publications

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Research

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