Posts by Barbara Smith, MD, PhD
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Novel Intraoperative Fluorescence Guidance Identifies Residual Tumor During Lumpectomy
Barbara Smith, MD, PhD, Michelle Gadd, MD and colleagues showed in a prospective, multicenter trial that a novel pegulicianine fluorescence-guided system, designed to allow intraoperative assessment of lumpectomy cavity margins and repeat shaves, facilitates removal of tumor left behind after standard surgery.
Biography
Barbara Smith, MD, PhD, is the Director of the Breast Program and Co-Director of the Women's Cancers Program at the Mass General Cancer Center. She is a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and at Mass General. Dr. Smith received her undergraduate training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MD. from Harvard Medical School's Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and a PhD from Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Smith's research activities have focused on reducing the extent of surgery and radiation required to treat breast cancer, diagnosis and treatment issues in young women with breast cancer, and three dimensional breast anatomy as it relates to breast surgery and pathologic analysis of specimens. She has been a Visiting Professor at Sun Yat-sen University in China since 2006 where she has assisted in development of multidisciplinary breast cancer programs and clinical research activities.
Dr. Smith was named one of Boston Magazine's Top Docs for 2013 for Breast Cancer.
Mass General Cancer Center
An integral part of one of the world’s most distinguished academic medical centers, the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center is among the leading cancer care providers in the United States.
