Bio
Dr. Poultsides is Section Chief of Surgical Oncology and Professor of Surgery at Stanford University. He is a high-volume oncologic surgeon specializing in the management of complex cancers of the pancreas, liver, stomach and retroperitoneum. He joined Stanford in 2009 after completing fellowship training in Surgical Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering and in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Surgery at Johns Hopkins. From a scholarly perspective, he has published extensively on the multidisciplinary management of HPB and upper GI malignancies. In addition, he directs an R01-funded molecular imaging program in pancreatic cancer and oversees a first-in-human clinical trial of fluorescence-guided surgery in patients undergoing pancreatic cancer resection. In his role as Co-Lead of the GI Oncology Clinical Research Program at the Stanford Cancer Institute, he provides oversight of the institution’s portfolio of surgical clinical trials in GI cancers. He serves as the Program Director of Stanford’s Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship and is a frequent recipient of teaching awards within Stanford Surgery.
