Marcela Mazo Canola, MD

Marcela Mazo Canola, MD, is an assistant professor within the Division of Hematology-Oncology at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio and a breast medical oncologist at Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center. 

She obtained her medical degree from CES University in Medellin, Colombia. She attended UT Health San Antonio where she completed a year of research, her internship and residency in internal medicine, and then her fellowship training in hematology and medical oncology. She was awarded Outstanding Resident Medicine Clerkship at the university. 

Her clinical and research interests are in breast cancers in the Hispanic population as well as the different health disparities that affect our community. She has worked in a medically underserved area in San Antonio for many years but decided to return to academia to work on her true passion: Breast cancer care and breast cancer research. 

She is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology. She is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the American Society of Hematology (ASH).