David Mahvi, M.D., joins MUSC Health team as oncology chief
August 8, 2016
David Mahvi, M.D., has joined the MUSC Health team as the chief of the oncology integrated clinical center of excellence (ICCE).
A 1981 graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina, Mahvi joins MUSC Health after serving as the James R. Hines professor of surgery and chief of gastrointestinal and oncologic surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Prior to his time at Northwestern, Mahvi served as professor and chief of surgical oncology and general surgery residency program director at the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Surgery.
“I am pleased to have Dr. Mahvi join the MUSC Health team,” said Patrick J. Cawley, M.D., MUSC Health CEO and MUSC Vice President of Health Affairs. “He has tremendous experience in building high quality academic and clinical oncology services. Oncology development is a high priority for MUSC Health and he will do very well.”
His research interests include the development of innovative biomedical devices for the treatment of liver cancer, and he holds eight patents for his efforts. He is the co-founder of Medical Engineering Innovations (Madison, WI) and serves as a medical advisor to Brightseed, Inc. and Innoblative Designs. An international authority on hepatobiliary cancer, Mahvi has authored or co-authored more than 120 peer-reviewed research articles and is a well-known presenter on cancer-related topics. He currently serves as an editorial board member for the Annals of Surgery, Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, and the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery.
Mahvi completed his undergraduate work in microbiology and pre-medicine at the University of Oklahoma and after receiving his medical degree from MUSC, completed a residency and research fellowship in immunology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.
About MUSC Health
MUSC Health is the clinical enterprise of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), comprised of a 700-bed medical center, the MUSC College of Medicine and the physician’s practice plan. It serves patients across South Carolina and beyond through four hospital facilities in Charleston and more than 100 outreach sites. Among these are the Hollings Cancer Center, the only National Cancer Institute-designated center in the state, and a nationally recognized Children’s Hospital. The Medical University was founded in 1824 and has become a premiere academic health sciences center at the forefront of the latest advances in medicine, with world-class physicians, scientists and groundbreaking research and technology that is often the first of its kind in the world. Visit http://muschealth.org for more information.
