{"id":2809,"date":"2019-08-19T15:18:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/surgonc\/?post_type=directory&#038;p=2809"},"modified":"2025-03-25T09:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:24:09","slug":"philip-m-spanheimer-md","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/surgonc\/directory\/philip-m-spanheimer-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip M. Spanheimer, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor<br \/>\nAssociate Chair of Basic and Translational Research<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.2 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Tv06aTzWBQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<h3>SPECIALTIES<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 10.0pt;line-height: 115%\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #4f4f4f;background: white\">General surgical oncology, sarcoma, endocrine surgery, complex skin cancers, gastrointestinal malignancy, breast surgical oncology including excisional biopsy; lumpectomy; mastectomy; skin-sparing mastectomy; nipple-sparing mastectomy; oncoplastic surgery; sentinel lymph node biopsy and mapping; axillary node dissection; locally advanced breast cancer; breast cancer in young women; high risk breast cancer patients, breast sarcomas<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>SPECIAL INTERESTS<\/h3>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">My clinical research focuses on surgical management of cancer and patient outcomes. This goal is to try to understand the interaction and impact of patient factors and surgical management on recurrence, survival, and morbidity of treatment.\u00a0 The focus is to identify patient and tumor characteristics that can help individualize treatment.\u00a0 These areas of investigation also generate hypotheses for biologic and mechanistic studies. In addition to advancing knowledge, these projects provide opportunities to introduce trainees to research methods, which allows them to improve reasoning, writing, and presentation skills, as well as provides a more in-depth foundation to critically appraise the literature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">In addition to patient care, I bring a patient centered focus to the laboratory to understand disease processes and develop better treatments. Our lab has several ongoing projects and collaborations which are focused around the question of how tumors, or subpopulations within tumors, adapt to therapeutics and become resistant. To do this we use laboratory models and are particularly interested in using primary tumor tissue obtained from the operating room and primary tissue derived models (organoids, patient derived xenografts) to increase the translational relevance of our experiments. Specific projects include characterizing reprogramming of tyrosine kinase signaling pathways with emerging resistance to endocrine therapy in ER+ breast cancer, using cell cycle structure as a framework k to understand sensitivity to cell cycle inhibition, and using single cell genomics to predict response to therapy and develop rationally informed treatment strategies.<\/p>\n<h3>EDUCATION<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Fellowship: Complex General Surgical Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY\u00a0 2017-2019<\/li>\n<li>General Surgery Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa\u00a0 2009-2011, 2013-2016<\/li>\n<li>Surgical Oncology Research Fellowship:\u00a0 University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa\u00a0 \u00a02011-2013<\/li>\n<li>Medical School: University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. 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