Professor of Surgery
Mayo Clinic Florida
Sarah McLaughlin is a Professor of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville Florida. She graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Medical School with distinction. She completed her General Surgery residency training at the Mayo Clinic in Florida and then a Breast Surgical Oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She has an active breast surgery clinical and research practice and has a history of intramural, state and federal/NIH research funding with a specific focus on issues affecting breast cancer survivorship especially lymphedema diagnosis and treatment.
Within the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO), she is the current Chair of the Training Committee and in that role has been involved in the organization of the Fellows Institutes I and II as well as the CGSO SSO Board Review course. She also serves as an editorial board member for the Annals of Surgical Oncology. She has previously been a member of the SSO CME committee and the breast disease site work group. On behalf of the SSO and the ASBrS she is currently leading the task force to develop Focused Practice Designation in breast surgery criteria for the American Board of Surgery. She also participated in the creation, validation, implementation, and critical revision of the SSO/ASBrS breast surgery fellowship curriculum and case minimums in 2014 and 2019.
Within the Mayo Clinic, she is an elected member of the Mayo Clinic Board of Govenors, the Florida Executive Operations leadership Team, Division Chair of General Surgery Mayo Clinic Florida, and the Medical Director of the Robert and Monica Jacoby Center for Breast Health. She is the course director for the Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Update in Breast Health annual CME meeting and serves as the Program Director for the General Surgery Residency.