Cancer Therapeutics Training (CT2) Talks | Michael Bouvet, MD, FACS

Development of Imaging Probes for Fluorescence Guided Surgery of GI and Endocrine Tumors

Michael Bouvet, MD, is a board-certified surgical oncologist and professor of surgery specializing in endocrine and gastrointestinal cancers. He serves as director of Endocrine Surgery and co-director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Unit at UC San Diego Health, with expertise in thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pancreatic, esophageal and other gastrointestinal cancers.

A physician-scientist, Dr. Bouvet focuses his research on fluorescence-guided surgery and tumor-specific imaging to improve the detection and removal of cancer during surgery. His work includes developing fluorescent probes for the early detection of colon and pancreatic cancers and techniques to help identify nerves during thyroid surgery.

He earned his medical degree from the University of Washington, completed his general surgery residency at UC San Diego and fellowship training in surgical oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He joined UC San Diego Health in 1998.