Tina J. Hieken, MD

Professor of Surgery
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Tina J Hieken MD FACS is a fellowship-trained surgical oncologist and Professor of Surgery at Mayo Clinic where she serves as the Medical Director of Quality and Accreditation for the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her clinical practice focuses on breast and melanoma surgical oncology. She serves on national and international committees, including the ACS Cancer Surgery Standards Program, and several editorial boards. Her research efforts are translational and include a Stand Up to Cancer funded clinical trial evaluating neoadjuvant combinatorial immunotherapy and drivers of immune response, resistance and toxicity in melanoma. She has additional funding for biomarker work in both breast cancer and melanoma and also studies the endogenous breast tissue microbiome and other microbial niches and their relationship to cancer development and treatment.

Presentation(s):

• Operative Standards for Breast Cancer

  Thursday, March 21, 2024
  9:30am – 9:40am ET

• P45: Head & neck primary cutaneous melanoma patients stratified by CP-GEP (Merlin Assay): risk of nodal metastasis and long-term survival outcome

  Friday, March 22, 2024
  11:19am – 11:25am ET

• 30: Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Melanoma Nodal Surveillance in a Multi-Institutional Cohort

  Saturday, March 23, 2024
  8:02am – 8:12am ET