Skip to main content
SSO 2026 Annual Meeting Main banner

Christina V. Angeles, MD, FACS, FSSO (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Christina V. Angeles, MD, FACS, FSSO is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Dermatology and Faculty Member in the Cancer Biology PhD Program at the University of Michigan in the Division of Surgical Oncology. She is the Director of Regional Cancer Therapies, the Director of the Sarcoma Research Working Group, and co-chair of the Cutaneous Oncology Clinical Trial Research Team at the U-M Rogel Cancer Center. Her clinical practice encompasses caring for patients with soft tissue cancers including sarcoma, melanoma, and non-melanoma cutaneous malignancies. The Angeles Laboratory focuses on the immune microenvironment of melanoma and sarcoma, specifically investigating the role of resident memory T cells in providing durable cancer immunity. The Angeles lab has received funding from the American Cancer Society, the Melanoma Research Alliance, the Society of Surgical Oncology and the NCI-NIH. Dr. Angeles completed general surgery residency at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center during which she completed a two-year basic/translational science Surgical Oncology Research Fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) focusing on the molecular biology and novel therapeutics for liposarcoma. After residency, Dr. Angeles returned to MSKCC and completed a Clinical Complex Surgical Oncology Fellowship. She is currently the Chair of the Research Committee for the Society of Surgical Oncology.

Presentation(s):