Rita Mukhtar, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, United States

Rita Mukhtar, M.D. is Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery and specializes in breast and acute care surgery. Dr. Mukhtar completed her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, and then attended medical school at UCSF, during which time she received a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship. She remained at UCSF for residency in General Surgery, and completed a two year post-doctoral research fellowship focusing on the role of inflammatory cells in breast cancer outcomes, funded by the California Breast Cancer Research Program. She has an active research program studying treatment strategies, novel imaging tools, and outcomes in invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast, with funding from the American Cancer Society.

Presentation(s):

• 3: Changes in axillary surgical management over 10 years – report on > 1400 breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy on I-SPY2

  Friday, March 24, 2023
  2:01 PM – 2:13 PM

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