Dr. Kirane joins Surgical Oncology

August 11, 2021

Dr. Amanda Kirane will join the Department's Surgical Oncology Section effective September 1, 2021. Dr. Kirane will be the Director of Cutaneous Surgical Oncology. Her clinical practice will be focused on melanoma and her scholarship in immuno-oncology and novel immunotherapeutic.

Dr. Kirane earned her B.A. from the University of Texas and M.D. from University of Texas Southwestern. She completed her General Surgery residency and postdoctoral fellowship in Cancer Biology at University of Texas Southwestern, followed by clinical fellowship in Complex General Surgical Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She was on the faculty at the University of California Davis in the Division of Surgical Oncology where she has also been completing her Ph.D. in Immunology during her faculty appointment.