Rita A. Mukhtar, MD

Associate Professor
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States

Rita Mukhtar, M.D. is Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at UCSF where she is Associate Program Director for the General Surgery residency, and maintains a clinical practice in breast surgical oncology and emergency general surgery. Her research interests include breast cancer risk factors, and the impact of surgical weight loss on imaging indicators of risk. Additionally, she leads a Lobular Breast Cancer Research Program at UCSF, where her work studying surgical outcomes and predictors of response to therapy in this tumor type is funded by the National Cancer Institute. She is co-chair of the Locoregional Working Group for ISPY-2 clinical trial.

Presentation(s):

• 5: Change in Biomarker Profile after neoadjuvant chemotherapy is especially common in patients with HER2+ breast cancer subtype

  Friday, March 22, 2024
  11:02am – 11:12am ET

• 3: Oncologic Outcomes with De-Escalation of Axillary Surgery after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: Results from >1,500 patients on the I-SPY2 Clinical Trial

  Friday, March 22, 2024
  1:26pm – 1:38pm ET

• Practice Changing IO Studies in Breast Cancer

  Friday, March 22, 2024
  4:32pm – 4:38pm ET