Andrea V. Barrio, MD, FACS
Breast Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Andrea V. Barrio, MD, FACS is an Associate Attending with the Breast Service, Department of Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and an Associate Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Barrio received her BS degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and her MD from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, where she was elected to the membership of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She completed her surgical residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, followed by one year of breast surgical oncology fellowship training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Dr. Barrio’s clinical practice is focused on the surgical treatment of breast disease, particularly breast cancer. Her research interests include the management of the axilla in patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and the study of lymphedema in early-stage breast cancer patients. Dr. Barrio is currently the principal investigator of two investigator-initiated, grant-funded prospective studies: a lymphedema study evaluating incidence, risk factors, and quality of life in breast cancer patients treated with axillary lymph node dissection, and a single-arm prospective study evaluating the technical feasibility and false-negative rate of sentinel lymph node biopsy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients presenting with locally advanced breast cancer.
Dr. Barrio was a member of the Society of Surgical Oncology Breast Disease Site Work Group from 2013-2018 and served as its Chair from 2016-2018. She was a member of the Society of Surgical Oncology Education Council from 2017-2018 and currently serves on the Society of Surgical Oncology Reimagination Task Force. She is a mentor to the Society of Surgical Oncology’s junior faculty as part of the newly established Society of Surgical Oncology Mentorship Program. In addition to her service to the Society of Surgical Oncology, Dr. Barrio is an associate editor for BESAP III, a web-based CME learning tool for breast surgeons sponsored by the American Society of Breast Surgeons, and she is a member of the Annals of Surgical Oncology editorial board. Dr. Barrio was as an Examination Consultant to the Surgical Oncology Board in the development of the Complex Surgical Oncology Qualifying Examination from 2014-2017, and she is currently an oral board examiner and consultant for the Complex Surgical Oncology Board Certifying Examination.
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Terms of Appointment: October 2019 - September 2021; October 2021 - September 2023