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Mio Kitano, MD, MPH, FACS, FSSO
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About Me
About Mio Kitano, MD, MPH, FACS, FSSO
Mio Kitano, MD, MPH, FACS, FSSO, is an associate professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She is board-certified in both General Surgery and Complex General Surgical Oncology. She is a surgical oncologist specializing in treating complex gastrointestinal malignancies, including those of the stomach, small bowel, pancreas and peritoneal surface malignancies. She also treats benign and malignant tumors of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands.
She completed her general surgery residency at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a three-year research fellowship at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health during her surgical training. She also completed a two-year General Complex Surgical Oncology Fellowship at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
Dr. Kitano was also named one of San Antonio’s Top Doctors 2021.
Gender
- Female
Languages Spoken
- English
- Spanish
- Japanese
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Credentials
Credentials
Positions
- Associate Professor, Division of Surgical Oncology & Endocrine Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
Certifications
- American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
- American Board of Surgery, Complex General Surgical Oncology
Education
- Medical School: St. George's University School of Medicine, St. George, Grenada
- Fellowship: Complex General Surgical Oncology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- Residency:
- General Surgery, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
- General Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
- Fellowship: Research, Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
- Internship: State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
- Graduate: MMS, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- Graduate: MPH, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
- Undergraduate: BS, Biology, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY
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Research & Publications
Research & Publications
Surgical versus non-surgical management for patients with malignant bowel obstruction (S1316): a pragmatic comparative effectiveness trial
Krouse RS, Anderson GL, Arnold KB, Thomson CA, Nfonsam VN, Al-Kasspooles MF, Walker JL, Sun V, Alvarez Secord A, Han ES, Leon-Takahashi AM, Isla-Ortiz D, Rodgers P, Hendren S, Sanchez Salcedo M, Laryea JA, Graybill WS, Flaherty DC, Mogal H, Miner TJ, Pimi
Thyroid nodules of indeterminate cytology in Hispanic/Latinx patients
Kerr CE, Ferrell J, Kitano M, Koek W, Dahia PLM, Velez J, Francis G.
Genotype-Phenotype Features of Germline Variants of the TMEM127 Pheochromocytoma Susceptibility Gene: A 10-Year Update
Armaiz-Pena G, Flores SK, Cheng ZM, Zhang X, Esquivel E, Poullard N, Vaidyanathan A, Liu Q, Michalek J, Santillan-Gomez AA, Liss M, Ahmadi S, Katselnik D, Maldonado E, Salgado SA, Jimenez C, Fishbein L, Hamidi O, Else T, Lechan R, Tischler AS, Benn DE, Dw
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