The UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute announced it has hired four new oncologists to expand services and increase access for patients.
Dr. Sonia T. Orcutt joins UAMS as director of the Division of Surgical Oncology and assistant professor in the Department of Surgery in the College of Medicine.
A board-certified general and complex general surgical oncologist, Orcutt has expertise in treating gastrointestinal and skin cancers, including liver, pancreas, gallbladder, adrenal, small bowel, appendix and stomach cancers, as well as soft tissue sarcomas and melanomas. She performs laparoscopic and minimally invasive cancer surgeries.
Orcutt is a magna cum laude graduate of Boston University School of Medicine where she was president of the Alpha Omega Honor Society. She completed her residency in general surgery and served as administrative chief at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, followed by a fellowship in complex general surgical oncology at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Florida. She practiced surgical oncology in Illinois before joining UAMS.
Also seeing patients at the Cancer Institute is Dr. Cesar Giancarlo Gentille Sanchez, who joins UAMS as a hematologist/oncologist and assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the College of Medicine.
Gentille Sanchez joins the Cancer Institute’s stem cell transplant and cellular therapy team specializing in the treatment of leukemia, lymphoma and myelodysplastic syndrome. He completed fellowships in blood and marrow transplantation and cellular therapy at Stanford University and in hematology/oncology at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, where he also completed his residency in internal medicine. He earned his medical degree from Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru.
The following oncologists will treat patients at the UAMS Baptist Health Cancer Center at Springhill Plaza in North Little Rock:
Dr. Anusha Jillella joins UAMS as a hematologist/oncologist and assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the College of Medicine.
Jillella completed her residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in hematology/oncology at UAMS. She is board certified in internal medicine and the recipient of the UAMS Thomas Andreoli Award for excellence in internal medicine. She received her medical degree from Gandhi Medical College in Hyderabad, India.
Dr. Santanu Samanta joins UAMS as a radiation oncologist and assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology in the College of Medicine.
Samanta completed his residency in radiation oncology at the University of Maryland Medical Center and Maryland Proton Center and a fellowship at Maryland’s Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Translational Radiation Sciences. Before completing his training in Maryland, he received his medical degree from the University of Calcutta in West Bengal, India, and radiation oncology residency at Christian Medical College in Vellore, India. He is certified in proton beam radiation therapy, the most advanced form of radiation therapy coming to UAMS in 2023.
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