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| Bio of Dr. G. Douglas Letson |
G. Douglas Letson, M.D.
Associate Professor of Oncology, Surgery,
Radiology and Orthopaedics
Program Leader, Sarcoma Program
Dr. Letson received his pre-doctoral training at the University of South Florida and
attended medical school at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
He then completed his Orthopedic Residency at Louisiana State University and continued on to
complete a Musculoskeletal Tumor Surgery Fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
Within a year of taking a position at USF working at the H. Lee Moffitt Center and Research Center,
he established the Sarcoma Program.
Dr. Letson is an internationally known surgeon and is well
respected with his new developments and surgical techniques in limb salvage surgery. He speaks
around the world on limb salvage surgical techniques and has developed multiple oncology systems
for skeletal reconstruction.
He is presently undergoing research with new metals that allow for improved limb salvage in that the dome bone and soft tissue cancer and muscles can grow into the metallic prosthesis. |
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