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Michail Mavros, M.D.
Fellowship-Trained Surgical Oncologist Michail Mavros, M.D., Joins UAMS
| Michail Mavros, M.D., a fellowship-trained surgical oncologist who specializes in gastrointestinal cancers, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). He sees patients in the Surgical Oncology Clinic at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
Mavros holds accredited subspecialty training in complex general surgical oncology and in hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery, a complex surgery for treatment of benign and malignant diseases of the liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts.
He also is trained in minimally invasive and robotic-assisted surgery and is an assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine Division of Surgical Oncology.
Mavros received his medical degree from the University of Athens School of Medicine in Athens, Greece, and served his residency in general surgery at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital-Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. He completed his oncology training at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada.
In addition to his clinical expertise, Mavros also is a prolific researcher and has completed postdoctoral research fellowships at the Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences in Athens, Greece; Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston.
He has co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed articles, contributed chapters in several textbooks and regularly presents his research findings at national and international conferences.
Mavros is a member of the Association for Academic Surgery, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the International and Americas Hepato-Pacreato-Biliary Associations, among others.
UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and eight institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,485 students, 915 medical residents and fellows, and seven dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 11,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.###