Ryan Fields, MD

Ryan Fields, MD

Surgeon

Primary Academic Title

Chief, Section of Surgical Oncology; Professor of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine

Clinical Expertise

As chief of the Section of Surgical Oncology and as a member of our sarcoma, pancreatic, liver, bile duct, stomach and skin cancer specialist teams, Dr. Fields is committed to providing patients with exceptional care.

Research Interest

The identification and treatment of patients at high risk for recurrence of their cancer and the use of novel treatment modalities to improve survival.

Education

  • 2003: MD, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

Training

  • 2003 - 2005: Resident, general surgery, Washington University, St. Louis
  • 2005 - 2006: Research fellow, surgery and immunology, Washington University
  • 2006 - 2009: Resident and chief resident, general surgery, Washington University
  • 2009 - 2011: Fellow, surgical oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York

Board Certification

  • 2009: American Board of Surgery, General Surgery

Selected Research Publications

HMGA2 Expression Predicts Subtype, Survival, and Treatment Outcome in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.
  • Yamamoto N, Dobersch S, Loveless I, [...] Fields RC, [...] Kugel S
  • Clin Cancer Res 2024
Differential chromatin accessibility and transcriptional dynamics define breast cancer subtypes and their lineages.
  • Iglesia MD, Jayasinghe RG, Chen S, [...] Fields RC, [...] Ding L
  • Nat Cancer 2024
Tumour evolution and microenvironment interactions in 2D and 3D space.
  • Mo CK, Liu J, Chen S, [...] Fields RC, [...] Ding L
  • Nature 2024
Treatment resistance to melanoma therapeutics on a single cell level.
  • Yao L, Krasnick BA, Bi Y, [...] Fields RC
  • Sci Rep 2024
Senescence Defines a Distinct Subset of Myofibroblasts That Orchestrates Immunosuppression in Pancreatic Cancer.
  • Belle JI, Sen D, Baer JM, [...] Fields RC, [...] DeNardo DG
  • Cancer Discov 2024
NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Melanoma: Cutaneous, Version 2.2024.
  • Swetter SM, Johnson D, Albertini MR, [...] Fields RC, [...] Espinosa S
  • J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2024
Senescence Defines a Distinct Subset of Myofibroblasts That Orchestrates Immunosuppression in Pancreatic Cancer.
  • Belle JI, Sen D, Baer JM, [...] Fields RC, [...] DeNardo DG
  • Cancer Discov 2024
Epigenetic regulation during cancer transitions across 11 tumour types.
  • Terekhanova NV, Karpova A, Liang WW, [...] Fields RC, [...] Ding L
  • Nature 2023
Fibrosis induced by resident macrophages has divergent roles in pancreas inflammatory injury and PDAC.
  • Baer JM, Zuo C, Kang LI, [...] Fields RC, [...] DeNardo DG
  • Nat Immunol 2023

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Contact Information

  • West St. Louis County

    Medical Office Building 2, 10 Barnes West Drive
    Creve Coeur, MO 63141

  • Washington University Medical Campus

    4500 Forest Park Avenue
    Saint Louis, MO 63108

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