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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2000

Terry Sarantou, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Am Soc of Breast Surgeons
  • Soc of Surg Oncol
  • Soc for Surg Alim Tract
  • Southeastern Surg Cong

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Mixed Academic/Private

General Surgery

Biography

Complex Surgical Oncology Breast surgery, benign and malignant breast disease. Skin cancer surgery including non melanoma and melanoma skin cancer surgery. Endocrine surgery, benign and malignant thyroid surgery and parathyroid surgery Clinical research in breast cancer and melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer. Past Member, Commission on Cancer, Cancer Liaison Committee Past Member, Board of Governors, American College of Surgeons Past Chair, Patient Education Workgroup, Board of Governors, American College of Surgeons Past Member, Patient Education Committee, American College of Surgeons Past Member, Trusted Medical Information Committee, American College of Surgeons Past Chair, American Society of Breast Surgeons, Ethics Committee Past Chair, Standards and Accreditation Committee, National Accreditation Program for Breast Surgeons (NAPBC) Surveyor for Breast Accreditation, NAPBC Member, Board of Directors, NAPBC Member Cancer Standards Operative Committee Member, International Relations Committee Member, American Society of Breast Surgeons Board of Directors

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Breast Disease/Cancer

  • axillary dissection
  • benign breast disease
  • breast biopsy
  • breast cancer
  • breast cancer reconstruction
  • breast cryoablation
  • breast radiotherapy
  • breast ultrasound
  • core needle biopsy
  • duct excision/microdochotomy
  • ductoscopy
  • lumpectomy
  • lymph node biopsy
  • mastectomy
  • radical mastectomy
  • sentinel node
  • stereotactic breast biopsy

Endocrine (Gland)

  • adrenal cancers/tumors
  • adrenal surgery
  • hyperparathyroidism
  • pancreatic endocrine tumors
  • parathyroid cancer
  • parathyroid surgery
  • pheochromocytoma
  • thyroid nodules/cancer
  • thyroid surgery

Head and Neck

Skin & Soft Tissue Disorders/Procedures

  • carpal tunnel release
  • cellulitis
  • component separation
  • decubitus ulcer
  • epidermal cyst
  • hand infections
  • nevi
  • skin and soft tissue infections
  • skin biopsy
  • skin gland tumors
  • skin grafting
  • tissue flaps
  • wound infections

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • adrenal tumors
  • anal cancer/tumors
  • bladder cancer/tumors
  • bone and soft tissue cancer/tumors
  • breast tumors in pregnancy
  • cervical cancer/tumors
  • colon cancer/polyps
  • endocrine cancer
  • endometrial cancer/tumors
  • esophagus cancer/tumors
  • gastrointestinal cancer/tumors
  • genitourinary cancer/tumors
  • gynecology cancer/tumors
  • kidney cancer

Hospital Appointments

Carolinas Medical Center/Atrium Health

Charlotte, NC, NC

General Surgery

06/2008—09/2022

Academic Appointments

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Chapel Hill, NC

Clinical Professor

07/2008—06/2022