View Larger Image Four caller   crab  doctors joined the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute astatine  UAMS
The Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute astatine UAMS is welcoming 4 caller oncologists, 2 of whom volition spot patients astatine its crab halfway astatine Baptist Health successful North Little Rock. Left to right: Sonia T. Orcutt, M.D., Cesar Giancarlo Gentille Sanchez, M.D., Santanu Samanta, M.D., and Anusha Jillella, M.D.

Oct. 12, 2022 | The summation of 4 caller oncologists volition grow services and summation entree for patients astatine the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute astatine the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its increasing web of clinics astatine Baptist Health locations.

“This is our adjacent signifier successful hematology/oncology enlargement arsenic we advancement toward NCI designation,” said Michael Birrer, M.D., Ph.D., manager of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and UAMS vice chancellor. “These agleam young oncologists volition assistance america supply outstanding crab attraction to a broader fig of Arkansans.”

Sonia T. Orcutt, M.D., joins UAMS arsenic manager of the Division of Surgical Oncology and adjunct prof successful the Department of Surgery successful the College of Medicine.

A board-certified wide and analyzable wide surgical oncologist, Orcutt  has expertise successful treating gastrointestinal and tegument cancers, including liver, pancreas, gallbladder, adrenal, tiny bowel, appendix and tummy cancers, arsenic good arsenic brushed insubstantial sarcomas and melanomas. She performs laparoscopic and minimally invasive crab surgeries.

Orcutt is simply a magna cum laude postgraduate of Boston University School of Medicine wherever she was president of the Alpha Omega Honor Society. She completed her residency successful wide country and served arsenic administrative main astatine Baylor College of Medicine successful Houston, Texas, followed by a fellowship successful analyzable wide surgical oncology astatine the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute successful Tampa, Florida. She practiced surgical oncology successful Illinois earlier joining UAMS.

Orcutt is simply a chap of the American College of Surgeons and a subordinate of the Society of Surgical Oncology, Association of Women Surgeons, American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association.

She is accepting caller patients. For appointments, telephone 501-296-1200.

Also seeing patients astatine the Cancer Institute is Cesar Giancarlo Gentille Sanchez, M.D., who joins UAMS arsenic a hematologist/oncologist and adjunct prof successful the Department of Internal Medicine successful the College of Medicine.

Gentille Sanchez joins the Cancer Institute’s stem compartment transplant and cellular therapy squad specializing successful the attraction of leukemia, lymphoma and myelodysplastic syndrome. He completed fellowships successful humor and marrow transplantation and cellular therapy astatine Stanford University and successful hematology/oncology astatine Houston Methodist Hospital successful Houston, Texas, wherever helium besides completed his residency successful interior medicine.  He earned his aesculapian grade from Cayetano Heredia University successful Lima, Peru.

Gentille Sanchez received the 2017 HONORS Award from the American Society of Hematology and the Outstanding Fellow Award from the Texas Society of Clinical Oncology successful 2019.

He is accepting caller patients. For appointments, telephone 501-296-1200.

The pursuing oncologists volition dainty patients astatine the UAMS Baptist Health Cancer Center astatine Springhill Plaza successful North Little Rock:

 Anusha Jillella, M.D., joins UAMS arsenic a hematologist/oncologist and adjunct prof successful the Department of Internal Medicine successful the College of Medicine.

Jillella completed her residency successful interior medicine and a fellowship successful hematology/oncology astatine UAMS. She is committee certified successful interior medicine and the recipient of the UAMS Thomas Andreoli Award for excellence successful interior medicine.  She received her aesculapian grade from Gandhi Medical College successful Hyderabad, India.

She is accepting caller patients. For appointments, telephone 501-214-2170.

Santanu Samanta, M.D., joins UAMS arsenic a radiation oncologist and adjunct prof successful the Department of Radiation Oncology successful the College of Medicine.

Samanta completed his residency successful radiation oncology astatine the University of Maryland Medical Center and Maryland Proton Center and a fellowship astatine Maryland’s Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Translational Radiation Sciences. Before completing his grooming successful Maryland, helium received his aesculapian grade from the University of Calcutta successful West Bengal, India, and radiation oncology residency astatine Christian Medical College successful Vellore, India. He is certified successful proton beam radiation therapy, the astir precocious signifier of radiation therapy coming to UAMS successful 2023.

Samanta is accepting caller patients. For appointments, telephone 501-214-2460.