MICHAEL A. WARSO, MD, MS, FACS

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & CHIEF, SURGICAL ONCOLOGY

General Profile

Specialty:

Surgical Oncology

Appointments:

Attending Surgeon at University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System

Clinical Interests:

Solid tumors: stomach, pancreas, liver & biliary tract, colon, rectum, esophagus (GI), breast, sarcoma, melanoma, head and neck, HIPEC

Languages Spoken:

English, Spanish

Education

Medical Education:

Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago,

Residency:

University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Surgery

Fellowship:

University of Illinois at Chicago ,Department of Surgical Oncology

Certifications:

American Board of Surgery

Publications, Awards, & Memberships

Awards:

• Career Development Award from the American Cancer Society- 1991-1994
• Clinical Oncology Fellowship for the American Cancer Society- 1988-1989
• Public Health Service National Research Service Award- 1982-1984– 1987-1988
• Ray and Joan Kroc Academic Scholar Award, Chicago- 1984
• Alpha Omega Alpha at University of Illinois at Chicago- 1979
• Phi Beta Kappa at Northwestern University- 1976

Society Memberships:

• American College of Surgeons, Society of Surgical Oncology-Fellow
• American Society of Clinical Oncology
• Chicago Surgical Society
• American Medical Association
• Illinois State Medical Society
• Chicago Medical Society

Publications:

• Warso MA, Richards J, Mehta D, Christov K, Rae Bressler L, Yamada T, Majumdar D, Kennedy SA, Beattie CW, Das Gupta TK. A first-in-class, first-in-human, phase I trial of p28, a non-HDM2-mediated peptide inhibitor of p53 ubiquitination in patients with advanced solid tumors. Br J Cancer 2013 108(5): 1061-1070.
• Pytynia K, Warso MA. Treatment of the Parotid Gland in Cutaneous Melanoma, Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology 2008 19: 230-234.
• Suen JJ, Bressler L, Shord SS, Warso M, Villano JL. Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma responding serially to single-agent cetuximab. Anticancer Drugs 2007 18:827-829.
• Kpodonu J, Warso MA, Massad MG. Osteosarcoma invading adrenal gland: rare cause of adrenal mass. Urology 2005 65:1226.
• Mundt AJ, Vijayakumar S, Nemunaitis J, Sandler A, Schwartz H, Hanna N, Peabody T, Senzer N, Chu K, Rasmussen CS, Kessler PD, Rasmussen HS, Warso M, Kufe DW, Gupta TD, Weichselbaum RR. A Phase I trial of TNFerade biologic in patients with soft tissue sarcoma in the extremities. Clin Cancer Res, 10: 5747-5753, 2004.
• Salti GI, Kansagra A, Warso MA, Ronan S, Das Gupta TK. Clinical Node-Negative Thick Melanoma. Arch Surg 2002 137: 291-295.
• Warso MA, Maniotis AJ, Chen X, Majumdar D, Patel MK, Shilkaitis A, Das Gupta T, Folberg R. Prognostic Significance of Periodic Acid-Schiff-positive Patterns in Primary Cutaneous Melanoma. Clin Cancer Res 2001 7:473-477.
• Brown Brockenbrough KE, Warso MA, Briele HA, Ronan SG, Blend MJ. Sentinel Node Lymphoscintigraphy and Gamma Probe-guided Detection in Patients with Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma. Radiology 1999 213(P): 163.
• Lau A, Li CJ, Santos A, Warso M, Das Gupta T, Yu R, Kong T. Cisplatin-induced apoptosis in melanoma cells. Clin Pharmacol Therap 1999 65:196.
• Warso MA, Gray T, Gonzalez M. Melanoma of the Hand. J Hand Surg 1997 22A: 354-360.
• Rauth S, Kichina J, Green A, Warso M, Das Gupta TK. Diagnosis of melanoma metastasis via reverse transcription and polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) detection of tyrosinase gene expression in peripheral blood. Proc Amer Cancer Res 1996 37:1359.
• Boddie AW, Warso M, Briele H, Sweeney P, Low N, Bork J, Rattan N, Wild L. Multimodal therapy breast salvage in the urban poor with locally advanced cancer. Arch Surg 1996 131: 424-429.
• Mehta RR, Graves JM, Warso MA, Das Gupta TK. Overexpression of mutant P53 and C-erbB2 proteins and breast tumor-take in mice. Br J Cancer 1995 72: 1160-1164.
• Warso MA, Mehta RR, Hart G, Graves JM, Green A. A cell line derived from a clinically benign phyllodes tumor: characterization and implications. Anticancer Res 1995 15: 399-404.
• Levine EA, Warso MA, McCoy DM, Das Gupta TK: Forequarter amputation for soft tissue tumors. Am Surg 1994 60:367-370.
• Warso MA, Das Gupta TK: Melanoma recurrence in a previously dissected lymph node basin. Arch Surg 1994 129:252-255.
• Warso MA, Lands WEM: Presence of lipid hydroperoxide in human plasma. J Clin Invest 1985 75:667-671.
• Marshall PJ, Warso MA, Lands WEM: Selective microdetermination of plasma lipid hydroperoxides. Anal Biochem 1985 145:192-199.
• Warso MA, Lands WEM: Pathophysiologic modulation of arachidonate metabolism. Clin Physiol Biochem 1984 2:70-77.
• Warso MA, Lands WEM: Lipid peroxidation in relation to prostacyclin and thromboxane physiology and pathophysiology. Brit Med Bull 1983 39:277-280.