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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.

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ACS Fellow Since 2022

Juan Antonio Santamaria, MD FACS

Contact Information

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Surg Oncol
  • Am Soc of Breast Surgeons

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

General Surgery

Biography

I am a surgical oncologist with special interest in breast cancer, melanoma, sarcoma, and end-of-life palliative surgical oncology care. I am a board-certified general surgeon and complex general surgical oncology. I joined the surgical oncology faculty at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, in the Fall of 2020.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Breast Disease/Cancer

  • axillary dissection
  • benign breast disease
  • breast biopsy
  • breast cancer
  • Breast Disease/Cancer
  • breast ultrasound
  • duct excision/microdochotomy
  • lumpectomy
  • lymph node biopsy
  • mastectomy
  • radical mastectomy
  • sentinel node

Endocrine (Gland)

  • adrenal cancers/tumors
  • adrenal surgery
  • Endocrine (Gland)
  • hyperparathyroidism
  • parathyroid cancer
  • parathyroid surgery
  • pheochromocytoma
  • thyroid nodules/cancer
  • thyroid surgery

Minimal Access Surgery

Skin & Soft Tissue Disorders/Procedures

  • Skin & Soft Tissue Disorders/Procedures
  • skin and soft tissue infections
  • skin biopsy
  • skin grafting
  • wound infections

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • laparoscopic surgery

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • adrenal tumors
  • basal cell cancer
  • biopsy of tumors
  • bone and soft tissue cancer/tumors
  • breast cancer
  • breast masses
  • breast tumors in pregnancy
  • endocrine cancer
  • melanoma
  • skin cancer
  • Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)
  • thyroid cancer/nodules

Hospital Appointments

University of Nebraska Medical Center

Omaha, NE

Attending Surgeon

10/2020—Present

Academic Appointments

University of Nebraska College of Medicine

Omaha, NE

Assistant Professor

10/2020—Present