Associate Professor of Surgery
The James Cancer Hospital / The Ohio State University
Dr. Samilia Obeng-Gyasi is a breast surgical oncologist and associate professor of surgery at The Ohio State University. Her practice focuses on surgery for breast cancer and benign breast diseases. She obtained her BS in Biology (with highest distinction and departmental honors) from Indiana University-Bloomington and her MD from The University of Michigan. She completed her general surgery residency at the Cleveland Clinic, and a Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) accredited breast surgical oncology fellowship at Duke University. Due to her interest in health services research, after finishing her residency, she completed a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a focus on quantitative research methods. As a health services researcher with an emphasis on health equity, the overarching goal of her work is to understand how ancestry, race, social determinants of health, and stress interact to influence cancer initiation, progression, and mortality.
