Timothy Frankel MD

Timothy L. Frankel, MD is a Surgical Oncologist and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Connecticut College in 2000 with a B.A. in Physics and was elected into Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his medical degree from George Washington University in 2004 and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He completed a residency in General Surgery at the University of Michigan in 2011 during which time he spent two years at the National Cancer Institute studying tumor immunology and genetic engineering under Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD. After completion of residency, he completed a two-year surgical oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and is board certified in Complex General Surgical Oncology. His clinical interests are in the treatment of gastrointestinal malignancies including cancers of the liver, pancreas and stomach. He has published multiple clinical papers on techniques in liver resection for colorectal metastases and primary liver cancers. He serves as Chair of the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System's Commission on Cancer certified Cancer Program. Through this role, he is developing multidisciplinary Cancer Clinics which will bring together, both clinical disciplines as well as support components to ensure optimal care for Veterans with cancer. His NIH/NCI funded laboratory studies mechanisms that link inflammation to pancreas tumor formation and metastasis.