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

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
Systemic Alterations in Type-2 Conventional Dendritic Cells Lead to Impaired Tumor Immunity in Pancreatic Cancer.
  • James CA, Baer JM, Zou C, [...] Fields RC, [...] DeNardo DG
  • Cancer Immunol Res 2023
Autologous humanized PDX modeling for immuno-oncology recapitulates features of the human tumor microenvironment.
  • Chiorazzi M, Martinek J, Krasnick B, [...] Fields RC, Flavell RA
  • J Immunother Cancer 2023
CD5 expression by dendritic cells directs T cell immunity and sustains immunotherapy responses.
  • He M, Roussak K, Ma F, [...] Fields RC, [...] Klechevsky E
  • Science 2023
Memory-like Differentiation Enhances NK Cell Responses to Melanoma.
  • Marin ND, Krasnick BA, Becker-Hapak M, [...] Fields RC, Fehniger TA
  • Clin Cancer Res 2021
Tumor-on-chip modeling of organ-specific cancer and metastasis.
  • Del Piccolo N, Shirure VS, Bi Y, [...] Fields RC, George SC
  • Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2021
Isotope tracing in adult zebrafish reveals alanine cycling between melanoma and liver.
  • Naser FJ, Jackstadt MM, Fowle-Grider R, [...] Fields RC, [...] Patti GJ
  • Cell Metab 2021

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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

    4921 Parkview Place
    Saint Louis, MO 63110

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