I am a board-certified general surgeon and surgical oncologist. I started at the University of Kentucky as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Section of Surgical Oncology in July 2017. I have expertise in treatment liver, biliary, pancreas, and upper GI malignancies, as well as intraabdominal sarcoma. My research interests include translational studies of immune and targeted therapy in colorectal liver metastases and in gastrointestinal stromal tumor. I am also interested in developing and running clinical trials of optimal strategies in neoadjuvant treatment of pancreas cancer.
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800 Rose Street University of Kentucky, Department of Surgery Lexington, KY 40508
Hutchcraft, M. G., Megan L Hutchcraft, Shulin Zhang, Nan Lin, Justine C Pickarski, Elizabeth A Belcher, Sainan Wei, Thèrése Bocklage, Rachel W Miller, John L Villano, ...> ;JCO Precision Oncology. 2024 Jan 1
Hannah G McDonald, Omar A Zaki, Matt J Wright, Rani Jayswal, Heidi Weiss, Rashmi T Nair, Halemane Ganesh, Scott Ellis, Jill M Kolesar, Jessica Moss, Mautin Barry-Hunde...> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2024 Feb 1
Hannah G McDonald, Omar A Zaki, Matt J Wright, Rani Jayswal, Heidi Weiss, Rashmi T Nair, Halemane Ganesh, Scott Ellis, Jill M Kolesar, Jessica Moss, Mautin Barry-Hunde...> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2024 Feb 1
Sean J Judge, Tara Ghalambor, Michael J Cavnar, Michael E Lidsky, Ryan P Merkow, May Cho, Ismael Dominguez-Rosado, Paul J Karanicolas, Skye C Mayo, Flavio G Rocha, Rya...> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2023 Dec 1
Sean J Judge, Tara Ghalambor, Michael J Cavnar, Michael E Lidsky, Ryan P Merkow, May Cho, Ismael Dominguez-Rosado, Paul J Karanicolas, Skye C Mayo, Flavio G Rocha, Rya...> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2023 Nov 1
Hannah G McDonald, Amber Leila Sarvestani, Joseph W Owen, Justin Rueckert, Margaret E Wierman, Katja Kiseljak-Vassiliades, Prakash K Pandalai, Carleton S Ellis, Reema ...> ;HPB. 2023 Nov 1
Hannah G McDonald, Megan M Harper, Kristen Hill, Anqi Gao, Angelica L Solomon, Charles J Bailey, Miranda Lin, Mautin Barry-Hundeyin, Michael J Cavnar, Samuel H Mardini...> ;Cancers. 2023 Jun 2
Hannah G McDonald, Reema A Patel, Carleton S Ellis, Sepideh Gholami, Mautin Barry-Hundeyin, Prakash K Pandalai, Joseph Kim, Michael J Cavnar> ;Surgery. 2023 Jul 1
Gabriel Orozco, Malay B Shah, Meera Gupta, Francesc Marti, Xiaonan Mei, Alexandre Ancheta, Siddharth Desai, Michael Cavnar, B Mark Evers, Joseph Zwischenberger, Robert...> ;HPB. 2023 Aug 1
Hannah G McDonald, Emily B Cassim, Megan M Harper, Erin E Burke, Emily F Marcinkowski, Michael J Cavnar, Prakash K Pandalai, Joseph Kim> ;Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America. 2023 Jan 1
Jeremy M Sharib, John M Creasy, Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner, Charles Kim, Hope Uronis, Shiaowen David Hsu, John H Strickler, Sepideh Gholami, Michael Cavnar, Ryan P Merk...> ;Annals of Surgery. 2022 Dec 1
Michael Cavnar, Tara Ghalambor, Michael E Lidsky, Ismael Dominguez-Rosado, May Cho, Paul Karanicolas, Ryan Merkow, Skye C Mayo, Flavio G Rocha, Ryan C Fields, Bas G Ko...> ;HPB. 2022 Dec 1
Yuxi Zhang, Autumn Hammonds, Karen Tran-Harding, Kurt B Schaberg, Rashmi T Nair, Chi Wang, Yuanyuan Wu, Prakash K Pandalai, Jill Kolesar, Joseph Kim, Michael J Cavnar> ;Journal of Surgical Case Reports. 2022 Mar 1
Megan L. Hutchcraft, Nan Lin, Shulin Zhang, Catherine Sears, Kyle Zacholski, Elizabeth Belcher, Eric B. Durbin, John L. Villano, Michael J. Cavnar, Susanne M. Arnold, ...> ;Cancers. 2021 Sep 8
Zeta Chow, Jeremy Johnson, Aman Chauhan, Tadahide Izumi, Michael J. Cavnar, Heidi L. Weiss, Courtney M. Townsend, Lowell Anthony, Carrigan Wasilchenko, Matthew L. Melt...> ;Cells. 2021 May 20
Johannes Uhlig, J. Lukovic, Laura A. Dawson, Reema A. Patel, Michael J. Cavnar, Hyun Soo Kim> ;American Society of Clinical Oncology Educational Book. American Society of Clinical Oncology. Annual Meeting. 2021 May 19
Mei Gao, Megan M. Harper, Miranda Lin, Shadi Qasem, Reema A. Patel, Samuel H. Mardini, Moamen Gabr, Michael J. Cavnar, Prakash K. Pandalai, Joseph Kim> ;Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2021 Apr 1
Michael J. Cavnar, Kenneth Seier, Mithat Gonen, Christina Curtin, Vinod P. Balachandran, William D. Tap, Cristina R. Antonescu, Samuel Singer, Ronald P. DeMatteo> ;Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 2021 Jul 1
McKayla J. Riggs, Bin Huang, Quan Chen, Marissa Schuh, Ming Poi, John L. Villano, Michael J. Cavnar, Susanne M. Arnold, Rachel W. Miller, Frederick R. Ueland, Jill M. ...> ;The Journal of Rural Health. 2020 Jul 6
Riva Raiker, Aman Chauhan, Hassan Hasanein, Grant Burkeen, Millicent Horn, Janeesh Sekkath Veedu, Cory Vela, Susanne M. Arnold, Jill M. Kolesar, Lowell Anthony, B. Mar...> ;Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases. 2019 Nov 21
'I’m Just Grateful to Be Here' – Markey Patient Perseveres Against Rare DiseaseMarch 2nd, 2020
Markey Patient, Culinary Author Enjoying Life "One Bite at a Time"December 7th, 2019
UK HealthCare No. 1 Again in Ky., Cancer Care Moves up in U.S. News & World Report RankingsJuly 27th, 2022
Research History
Surgical Oncology Research Training Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterBasic science lab fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Ronald DeMatteo, studying tumor immunology and targeted therapy in gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)2009 - 2012