• Surgical Oncology Services
• Surgery Services
• Cancer Services

• American Board of Surgery, Complex General Surgical Oncology [Surgery]
• American Board of Surgery, Surgery - General

• English
• Vietnamese

University of California San Diego School of Medicine

Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterGeneral Surgery
Stanford University Medical CenterPGY 2 Clinical Year

Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterAnesthesiology
University of Illinois College of MedicineGeneral Surgery

City of Hope National Medical CenterComplex General Surgical Oncology
Stanford University Medical CenterResearch Fellowship in Surgical Oncology

• Assistant Professor — Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, UCI School of Medicine
• Member — American College of Surgeons
• Member — Association for Academic Surgery
• Member — Society of Surgical Oncology
• Member — Society for Melanoma Research
• Member — Society of Asian Academic Surgeons
• Member — Association of Women Surgeons
• Member — Surgical Outcomes Club

• Fellow of the Year, 2021 — City of Hope
• Conquer Cancer Merit Award, 2017 — American Society of Oncology
• Steve Sotsky Pancreatic Cancer Research Award, 2016 — Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association

Dr. Thuy Tran is a board-certified UCI Health surgeon who is fellowship trained in surgical oncology.

Her clinical interests include melanoma, Merkel cell carcinoma and other cutaneous malignancies, as well as soft tissue tumors and soft tissue sarcomas.

Tran earned her medical degree at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. She completed an internship in general surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, followed by a postdoctoral research fellowship in surgical oncology at Stanford University's School of Medicine. Next, she completed a residency in general surgery at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, followed by fellowship training in complex general surgical oncology at City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, Calif. 

She is the author or co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts in prestigious journals such as Annals of Surgery, JAMA Surgery and the Annals of Surgical Oncology. She also has presented her research at national and international conferences, including the American Surgical Association, Pacific Coast Surgical Association, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Western Surgical Association. Her research interests include surgical clinical trials, health disparities and gaps in the care delivery, as well as patient-reported cancer outcomes.

Tran, who is also fluent in Vietnamese, sees patients in Orange, Laguna Hills and Yorba Linda.

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