Katherine Poruk, MD, a board-certified and fellowship-trained surgical oncologist and researcher, joins the Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (CTCA), Atlanta, physician team. She will focus on gastrointestinal and hepatopancreatic cancers, as well as sarcomas and melanomas.
Dr. Poruk earned her medical degree from the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City and completed a general surgery residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She completed her fellowship in complex surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York City.
Dr. Poruk is a member of several organizations, including the Society of Surgical Oncology, American Association of Cancer Research, American College of Surgeons, Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association and Association of Academic Surgery. She has also authored several publications, abstracts and book chapters.