Eric C. Feliberti, M.D., Surgical Oncology at EVMS, discusses his area of focus, approach to patient care, and what's new and developing in Surgical Oncology.
My name is Eric for Liberty. I'm a surgical oncologist. I work here at E VMS and that sent Terry Norfolk. General, we do broad general surgical oncology, so we do a broad range of general surgical oncology. One of my main focus recently has been, uh, carcinoma ketosis and performing high peck procedures. So mainly that's treating cancers from the GI tract that spread within the abdomen and also ovarian cancer as well. My father was a surgeon. My grandfather was an epidemiologist. I tried to avoid it, but I continued to gravitate towards surgery in college and in medicine, so I just couldn't help it. You know, if I had a thing about being diagnosed with cancer, you must undergo a flood of emotion. So I always try to put myself in their shoes. When they first come to visit us. I think the best thing we can do is just provide them information and give them a treatment plan. Hopefully, they get a sense that they know that they have a team behind them and they have a path to kind of get through this. It's one of the hot topics in our field right now. Is immunotherapy know that our body can do a great job of recognizing cancer and trying to eliminate it. So now we actually found effective ways to try to harness that immune system to recognize cancers. This way we can better control cancers and actually gives us more options to try to treat it with surgery. I'm from New Orleans and grew up in Texas. My wife is from New York, and I finally finished my training. My wife wanted to be back on the East Coast, but she don't want to go back to New York. Hampton roads just seemed like just a really great place to be. Has a lot of history. Just the opportunity to work with the medical school trained residents and students just seemed exciting.
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