Joshua M. Mammen, MD PhD

Professor of Surgery
University of Nebraska Medical Center

I currently serve as Professor and Chief of Surgical Oncology at the University of Nebraska. I earned by BA in History and Medical Science at Boston University where I stayed on to complete my MD. I completed a residency at the University of Cincinnati. During my residency, I took a three year sabbatical to earn a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Physisiology. I then joined the Complex General Surgical Oncology fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. My clinical focuses are soft tissue sarcomas and melanoma. My basic science/translational focus is in better understanding stemness in melanoma. I am also am involved in designing and implementing clinical trials that will benefit our patients in the future and serve as the PI of SWOG 2015.

Poster(s):

• E302: International Survey on Evidence for Index Lymph Node (ILN) Surgery Following Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy (NST) for Stage III Melanoma

• E308: Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Desmoplastic Melanoma: More Frequently Performed and Less Likely to be Beneficial

• E390: Evolving Gender Parity of Industry Research Funding to Surgical Oncologists: An Open Payments Database Analysis

• P43: Innovation in Collaborating and Funding an International Cancer Clinical Trial