Directory

William B. Farrar, M.D.
Professor of Surgery; Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology; The Dr. Arthur G. and Mildred C. James Professor in Surgical Oncology
N-924 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1228
(614) 293-8890

• B.A.: Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill., 1971
• M.D.: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 1975
• Specialty Training: The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y.
• Appointment: 1982
• Specialty Interests: Breast disease, thyroid disease, head and neck cancer
• Research Interests: Breast cancer (high-risk breast cancer clinic, clinical studies for the adjuvant treatment of breast cancer, role of stereotactic biopsy for diagnosis, use of sestamibi in breast cancer diagnosis); thyroid cancer (role of aspiration biopsy and follicular neoplasms, extent of surgery for thyroid cancer); parathyroid disease (localization studies using sestamibi and Neoprobe)

Doreen M. Agnese, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Internal Medicine
N-1106 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1228
(614) 293-6408

• M.D.: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, N.J., 1993
• Specialty Training: General surgery internship and residency, research fellowship, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, N.J.; fellowship in surgical oncology and clinical cancer genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
• Appointment: 2004
• Specialty and Research Interests: Breast cancer, melanoma, cancer genetics, all aspects of surgical oncology

Mark Bloomston, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
N-924 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1228
(614) 293-8196

• B.S.: Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla., 1992
• M.D.: University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla., 1997
• Specialty Training: University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla.
• Appointment: 2006
• Specialty Interests: Hepatobiliary malignancies
• Research Interests: Molecular biology of pancreatic cancer

William E. Carson, III, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
N-911 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1228
(614) 293-6306

• B.S.: University of California, Irvine, Calif., 1982
• M.D.: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif., 1986
• Specialty Training: University of California, Irvine, Calif.; Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, N.Y.
• Appointment: 1997
• Specialty Interests: Breast cancer
• Research Interests: Immunotherapy of cancer

William G. Kraybill, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
N-904 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1228
(614) 293-7742

• B.A.: Earlham College, Richmond, Ind., 1965
• M.D.: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1969
• Specialty Training: University of Oregon Health Sciences Center,
  Portland, Ore.
• Appointed: 2008
• Specialty Interests: Malignant melanoma and other aggressive skin
  cancers, soft tissue sarcomas
• Research Interests: Clinical trials in tumors, multidisciplinary management of tumors, whole body hyperthermia

Edward W. Martin, Jr., M.D.
Professor of Surgery
N-911 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1228
(614) 293-8843

• B.S.: The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1967
• M.D.: Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn., 1972
• Specialty Training: National Institutes of Health training, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; American Cancer Society Advanced Fellowship, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
• Appointment: 1977
• Specialty Interests: Gastrointestinal malignancies
• Research Interests: Radioimmunoguided surgery, tumor markers, biologic response modifiers, liver metastatic model, dormant cancer cells, vaccines

John E. Phay, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery
N-924 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1228
(614) 293-8550

• B.A.: Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., 1987
• M.D.: University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif., 1993
• Specialty Training: Residency in general surgery, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
• Appointment: 2009
• Specialty Interests: Surgical oncology
• Research Interests: Endocrine diseases

Stephen P. Povoski, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
N-914 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1228
(614) 293-8700

• B.S.: State University of New York, Buffalo, N.Y., 1985
• M.D.: State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse, N.Y., 1989
• Specialty Training: University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y.
• Appointment: 2001
• Specialty Interests: Breast cancer, breast diseases
• Research Interests: Sentinel lymph node mapping and biopsy for breast cancer, image-guided/minimally invasive breast biopsy, high-risk breast cancer clinic, ductal lavage

Carl R. Schmidt, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery
N-924 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1228
(614) 293-8196

• B.S.: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1996
• M.D.: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1999
• M.S.: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., 2004
• Specialty Training: Residency in general surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn.; fellowship in surgical oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y.
• Appointment: 2008
• Specialty Interests: Hepatobiliary and gastrointestinal oncology
• Research Interests: Clinical trials in GI malignancies

Wiley W. “Chip” Souba, Jr., M.D.
Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology; Dean, Ohio State University College of Medicine; Interim Senior Vice President and Executive Dean for Health Sciences; Interim CEO, Ohio State University Medical Center
250 Meiling Hall
370 West 9th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1238
(614) 292-2600

• B.S.: Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio
• M.D.: University of Texas, Houston, Texas
• Sc.D.: Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.
• Specialty Training: Residency in surgery, University of Texas, Houston, Texas; fellowship, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass.; fellowship, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
• Appointment: 2006
• Specialty Interests: Leadership development; the academic medicine environment
• Research Interests: Metabolism of glutamine

Lisa D. Yee, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
N-911 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1228
(614) 293-6654

• B.A.: University of California, San Diego, Calif., 1982
• M.D.: Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1986
• Specialty Training: Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami, Fla.
• Appointed: 1996
• Specialty Interests: General surgical oncology
• Research Interests: Tumor progression and metastasis