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Professor
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Keila Enitt Torres, MD, PhD, MBA, FACS
Primary Appointment: Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment: Professor, Department of Genomic Medicine, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Biography
Dr. Torres is a Professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology and the Department of Genomic Medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She graduated from The University of Puerto Rico, and The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, in New York. She completed her General Surgery Residency at Robert Wood Johnson University and then received further postgraduate training as a clinical fellow in Surgical Oncology in the Department of Surgical Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
She serves as the Co-Director of the Division of Surgery Basic/Translational Research and the Founder of Sniffing for The Cure and Comparative Oncology Solutions. She created a Catalyst Program at SARC, where developmental projects are supported by funding and intensive coaching. The Catalyst Program draws upon her MBA background, providing an incubator-like approach in which a steering committee works with the funded investigators, ensuring effective problem-solving and deliverables.
Her commitment is to advance the understanding and treatment of soft tissue sarcoma, a rare cancer, through translational research. Her current research is focused on the examination of the molecular mechanisms deregulations that promote the pathogenesis of sarcomas with the intent to develop targeted therapeutic approaches for the treatment of this disease.