Mary Thomas Austin MD , MPH

Summary

• Mary Austin is an Associate Professor in both the Department of Pediatric Surgery at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston and in Surgical Oncology and Pediatrics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She completed her surgery residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. During her residency, Dr. Austin also received a Masters in Public Health from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She completed her Surgical Critical Care and Pediatric Surgery training at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in July 2010. Dr. Austin is board certified in Surgery, Surgical Critical Care and Pediatric Surgery. She has a special interest in pediatric surgical oncology, surgical critical care including ECMO, and clinical research. Her research focus is clinical outcomes research in the field of pediatric surgical oncology. She is also interested in identifying geographic and socioeconomics barriers to care for pediatric cancer patients and working to dissolve these barriers.