Associate Professor
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas, United States
Dr. Arrington is an Associate Professor in General Surgery and Surgical Oncology with Houston Methodist Hospital Department of Surgery. Dr. Arrington received her medical degree from West Virginia University School of Medicine in 2003 and went on to complete a General Surgery Residency and Fellowship in Surgical Infectious Disease at the University of Minnesota. She then completed a fellowship in Complex General Surgical Oncology at City of Hope National Cancer Center in Duarte, California, where she served as the administrative chief fellow. She is active in both national and regional surgical organizations. As a member of the Health Policy Advocacy Council of the American College of Surgeons, she is a strong patient advocate locally and nationally.
Throughout her career, Dr. Arrington has continued to work to educate medical students, residents, and fellows. As the Associate Program Director of the Marshall University General Surgery Program, she helped bring endoscopic trainers into the flexible endoscopy skills program. Currently, Dr. Arrington is an Adjunct Faculty for the Texas A&M College of Medicine where she is a co-course director of a preclerkship clinical course for first year medical students and is engaged in teaching in the anatomy lab.
Dr Arrington also has a special interest in Clinical Outcomes research, with a particular focus in health disparities and access to care for cancer and surgical patients. She has published extensively on topics of surgical and cancer related outcomes and is collaborating on several grant submissions in these areas.
As the Medical Director of the HIPEC program, Dr Arrington has expanded the HMH HIPEC program. She also specializes in surgery for colorectal and HPB surgery. In her free time, she is a full-time mom and wife.
Thursday, March 23, 2023
4:46 PM – 4:56 PM
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose