Mara Antonoff, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Dr. Antonoff completed her undergraduate studies in Chemistry and Biology at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, after which she earned her medical degree at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis. She completed her internship and residency in General Surgery at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, where she served as Chief Administrative Surgical Resident.

During her surgical residency, Dr. Antonoff completed 3 years of dedicated research time, including basic science benchwork examining the roles of heat shock proteins in cancer proliferation. During this period, she additionally focused on research in the areas of thoracic surgical clinical outcomes and surgical education, while completing the Association for Surgical Education’s Surgical Education Research Fellowship. Following her residency training, Dr. Antonoff completed a fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, with a clinical focus in the General Thoracic track.

She then joined the faculty at MD Anderson in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery in 2014, where she is currently an Assistant Professor and Assistant Program Director for Education. Dr. Antonoff is certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, having trained in all aspects of cardiothoracic disease, with special concentration on thoracic oncology, lung transplantation, and diseases of the foregut, and an emphasis on minimally invasive surgical therapies. Dr. Antonoff’s clinical research interests include pulmonary metastatic disease, early detection of lung cancer, and localized therapy for metastatic lung cancer.

She is the primary investigator in a multi-institutional trial for lung-limited metastatic colorectal cancer, and she is the surgical PI for multiple trials evaluating the role of local consolidative therapy for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. She continues to be involved in educational research, aiming to improve curricular design and assessment tools in Thoracic Surgical training. She holds leadership roles in the Women in Thoracic Surgery, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, and the Thoracic Surgery Directors Association. She is recognized as a founding member of both the Thoracic Education Cooperative Group and the Thoracic Surgery Social Media Network.

She holds Editorial Board positions for the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, CTSNet, and the Journal of Thoracic Disease.

Primary Appointment

Associate Professor, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Program Director of Education, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Source: https://faculty.mdanderson.org/profiles/mara_antonoff.html