Thelma Hurd, M.D., a breast surgeon from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., this summer joined the division of surgical oncology at the Health Science Center.
Dr. Hurd is particularly interested in cultural challenges to early screening and treatment of cancer, and in cancer-related community resources available to young women. She developed community-based collaborations in western New York that focused on breast health disparities affecting the region’s African-American populations. Part of her new role will be to assist the predominately Hispanic populations of South Texas in much the same way.
Dr. Hurd received her M.D. degree in 1983 from the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) at Newark. She remained at UMDNJ for her internship and residency in general surgery, which she completed in 1990, and a postdoctoral fellowship in shock and sepsis, finished in 1987. She completed her clinical surgical oncology fellowship at Ohio State University in 1992.
No stranger to Texas, Dr. Hurd benefited from a fellowship in tumor immunobiology and additional training in health disparities at the U.T. M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. From 1993 to 1997 she served as a faculty member at the U.T. Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Dr. Hurd then moved to the Roswell Park Cancer Institute and held a concurrent appointment at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she rose to the rank of associate professor in 2004.
“To bring in an individual of her reputation, caliber and passion for patients with breast cancer is a great benefit for the women of South Texas,” said Morton S. Kahlenberg, M.D., associate professor of surgery and chief of the division of surgical oncology. “Dr. Hurd is a top researcher from the nation’s oldest cancer center, Roswell Park. We are recruiting excellence here and are continuing to build.”
In addition to Drs. Kahlenberg and Hurd, the division of surgical oncology offers patients the services of Dennis Rousseau, M.D., who specializes in surgical treatment of upper gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary cancers, and 35-year faculty member Anatolio B. Cruz, M.D., a noted breast surgeon.
Contact:
Will SansomPhone: (210) 567-2579
E-mail:
Sansom@uthscsa.edu
