MUSC Health Surgical Oncology at Hollings Cancer Center
86 Jonathan Lucas Street, Hollings Cancer Center, 3rd Floor,Charleston, SC 29425
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Alisa Blumenthaler, M.D.
Breast Cancer
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Dr. Alisa Blumenthaler is a breast surgical oncologist and is certified by the American Board of Surgery. Her clinical interests focus on providing up-to-date, comprehensive and multi-disciplinary care for patients with breast cancer as well as high-risk and benign breast conditions. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at Medical University of South Carolina.
Dr. Blumenthaler is dedicated to providing compassionate care, specific to each individual patient. She works closely with MUSC's multidisciplinary breast cancer team to incorporate the latest advancements in breast cancer treatment with the goal of achieving the best cancer-related outcomes while minimizing patient side effects. She is passionate about making sure patients feel well-informed about their condition and their treatment options, in order to make a joint decision about their care. When performing a surgery to remove cancer, or another lesion in the breast, Dr. Blumenthaler also focuses on maintaining the breast's natural appearance as much as possible, including hidden-scar techniques, local breast tissue rearrangement, and performing nipple-sparing mastectomies in collaboration with MUSC's reconstructive surgeons.
Dr. Blumenthaler obtained her bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame, graduating with honors, prior to earning her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She completed her residency training in general surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine, during which she dedicated additional time to a clinical research fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Blumenthaler completed specialized training in breast surgical oncology, including breast surgery and breast cancer management, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Dr. Blumenthaler is a member of the American Society of Breast Surgeons and the Society of Surgical Oncology. Her research interests include improving patient-physician communication and patient decision-making in breast cancer care.
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Bernice Liying Huang, M.D.
Surgical Oncology
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Bernice Huang, M.D. is an endocrine surgeon who collaborates closely with the Hollings Cancer Center, bringing innovative techniques and procedures to endocrine patients in South Carolina. Dr. Huang completed her endocrine surgery fellowship at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and general surgery residency at Columbia University, where she also dedicated a year to clinical research in endocrine surgery.
Dr. Huang has expertise in the posterior retroperitoneoscopic approach for adrenal surgery that accesses the adrenal gland through the back, simplifying the laparoscopic procedure and minimizing postoperative pain. She also has clinical and research interests in the care and surgical management of patients with renal hyperparathyroidism, thyroid surgery, parathyroid surgery, adrenal surgery, thyroid cancer, hyperparathyroidism, and familial endocrine tumor syndromes. She focuses her research on improving clinical outcomes and addressing disparities in care for these patients.
Dr. Huang received her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2015 and a bachelor of science degree in biological engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Macy Drew, PA-C
Surgical Oncology
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Macy Drew is a board-certified physician assistant in the Division of Surgical Oncology at the Medical University of South Carolina. Her practice is mainly focused on gastrointestinal malignancies, such as pancreatic, stomach, liver, and other GI cancers. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, and subsequently completed her PA training at MUSC.
Macy is dedicated to providing compassionate, personalized care and is honored to walk alongside her patients throughout their cancer treatment.
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Denise Mugnol Carneiro-Pla, M.D.
Surgical Oncology
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Dr. Denise Carneiro-Pla is a board-certified general surgeon who is focused in endocrine surgery. She was educated in Brazil including medical school and residency in general surgery. In 1998, shortly after her residency, she was invited to the United States to be a researcher in endocrine surgery which started her interest and commitment to this specialty. The research fellowship at the University of Miami School of Medicine lasted for a period of three-and-a-half years and then extended to another year and a half as a clinical fellow of endocrine surgery under Dr. George Irvin's mentorship.
Following these five years of specialized endocrine surgery training in this center of excellence, Dr. Carneiro-Pla was ready to start her career as an academic surgeon in the U.S. and she repeated the residency in general surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
Dr. Carneiro-Pla has been a faculty of the Department of Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina since 2007, with a practice exclusively dedicated to endocrine surgery treating thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgical diseases. She remains academically productive writing papers and book chapters in endocrine surgery, mainly in parathyroid disease and cervical ultrasonography, which are her special interests.
Dr. Carneiro-Pla currently sees patients in downtown Charleston at Hollings Cancer Center and at North Charleston Specialty Care, where ultrasonography is available as part of cervical physical examination and to guide necessary procedures. The indicated surgeries are performed at our state-of-the-art hospital, Ashley River Tower.
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Andrea Marie Abbott, M.D., MSCR
Surgical Oncology
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Dr. Andrea M. Abbott is a board-certified surgical oncologist who specializes in the treatment of breast cancer, melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer, and soft tissue sarcoma. Her clinical interests are breast cancer, breast cancer during pregnancy, Hidden Scar surgery, skin and nipple-sparing mastectomy, breast conserving surgery, melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer, minimally invasive lymph node dissection, retroperitoneal sarcoma, and extremity soft tissue tumors.
Dr. Abbott obtained her medical degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and completed her general surgery residency at the University of Minnesota. She also obtained a Master's degree in clinical research during her residency from the University of Minnesota. She completed her surgical oncology fellowship at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.
In addition to her surgical practice, Dr. Abbott is involved in clinical research and evaluating ways to improve information delivery to patients in order to enhance the patient-physician relationship and decision-making process. She is also working on ways to reduce opioid addiction after cancer surgery. She is Hidden Scar certified and uses this approach to improve cosmetic outcomes after breast cancer surgery without compromising cancer care. She is committed to finding a way for each patient to receive the best possible cancer care while honoring each patient's individual wishes and goals for his or her care.
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Grace Stewart McRoy, PA
Surgical Oncology
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Grace McRoy is a Physician Assistant in the Department of Surgical Oncology at MUSC. She graduated from A.T. Still University's Physician Assistant program in Arizona and received her undergraduate degree in Spanish and International Health undergraduate degree from Clemson University in 2017. Before her physician assistant training, Grace received her Master's degree in Public Health from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2018.
She moved to South Carolina in 2000 from New Jersey with her sister and two parents, also medical providers in Beaufort, South Carolina. Throughout her undergraduate years, she knew she wanted to work in the medical field and decided to pursue degrees in public health and physician assistant studies. Grace completed her first year of PA training in Gilbert, Arizona, and then moved to Albany, Georgia, for clinical rotations. After graduation, she settled in Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband and their dog.
Grace is passionate about ensuring all individuals receive medical attention no matter their background. Her professional interests include surgical care, pre-operative education, post-operative education, health equity, whole-person health care, and oncology. Grace is bilingual in Spanish and English and hopes this may help patients become more comfortable with her as their medical provider.
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David Jefferson Cole, M.D.
Sarcoma Cancer
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David J. Cole, M.D., FACS, is President of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and a nationally recognized surgeon, educator, and physician-scientist. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from New Mexico State University and was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist. He earned his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York in 1986. Dr. Cole completed his internship and residency in general surgery at Emory University Affiliated Hospitals in Atlanta, followed by a fellowship in surgical oncology at the NIH/NCI Surgery Branch in Bethesda, Maryland.
Board certified by the American Board of Surgery, Dr Cole has been a nationally recognized surgical oncologist receiving multiple US News and World Report Top Doctor and Castle Connolly Top Surgeon recognitions. His current clinical interests include breast cancer, melanoma, and sarcoma.
Dr. Cole joined MUSC in 1994 and has held numerous leadership roles during his tenure. In 2003, he was named the A. McKoy Rose, Jr., M.D. Endowed Chair in Surgical Oncology, Chief of the Division of General Surgery, and subsequently served as Chair of the Department of Surgery from 2007-2014. He has an extensive research background focused on cancer immunotherapy, novel cancer vaccine development, and molecular diagnostics He established the first immunotherapy laboratory at MUSC, with more than 17 years of continuous National Institutes of Health research funding until 2014. He became President of the Medical University of South Carolina on July 1, 2014.
In addition to his clinical and research accomplishments, Dr. Cole has made significant contributions as an educator, mentor, and national leader in academic medicine and surgery. He has served on multiple NIH and NCI study sections, editorial boards of leading scientific journals, and professional organizations, and has been widely recognized for excellence in leadership, research, and patient care.
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Mark Alan Lockett, M.D.
Breast Cancer
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Dr. Lockett is a Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery where he works in the Surgical Oncology Division. He serves as the MUSC Health's Chief Quality Officer for Charleston, where he leads MUSC Health - Charleston in continued efforts to provide the safest and highest quality care for patients by building a culture and systems that foster excellence.
His academic interest lies in improving the quality, safety, and value of surgical care and addressing the surgical aspects of the opioid crisis. He is the principal investigator and surgeon lead for the South Carolina Surgical Quality Collaborative where he guides Continuous Quality Improvement work in eighteen hospitals across the state. He serves a similar role in the VA as the chief surgical consultant for Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 (Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina) where he provides guidance to seven surgical programs in the region. He works with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement on surgical projects and served as a member of the VA's General Surgery Advisory Board.
His primary areas of surgical expertise include the management of breast cancer and breast diseases. He has multiple peer-reviewed publications in both surgical oncology and general surgery. Dr. Lockett has a strong interest in surgical quality, safety, and value; surgical education, continuous quality improvement; system design, and pain management. He served as the surgical residency program director at East Tennessee State University before joining MUSC and the VA. He is the recipient of multiple teaching awards and has been an invited speaker at regional and national meetings.
He is a member of MUSC's Surgical Leadership Council, Quality Committee, and Clinical Council. Within the VA, Dr. Lockett chairs or participates in multiple local, regional, and national committees including: the Academic Partnership Council, Quality Executive Committee, Patient Care Improvement Conference, Clinical Executive Board; National, VISN, and local surgical work groups; VISN Healthcare Delivery Council, Peer Review Committee, Invasive Procedures Committee, and the Strategic Analytics for Improvement and Learning national work group.
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MUSC Health Surgical Oncology at Hollings Cancer Center
86 Jonathan Lucas Street, Hollings Cancer Center, 3rd Floor,Charleston, SC 29425