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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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ACS

Kelly J Lafaro, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Surg Oncol
  • Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Assoc
  • Assn of Women Surgeons
  • Assn for Acad Surg
  • Soc for Surg Alim Tract

Additional Information

Gender

Female

General Surgery

600 N Wolfe St

Blalock 605

Baltimore, MD 21287

United States

Contact Information

Biography

Kelly Lafaro, MD, MPH, is a board-certified general surgeon and surgical oncologist with a specialty in gastrointestinal surgical oncology and hepatobiliary surgery. She is part of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore. Dr. Lafaro earned her medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine and completed her residency at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Her fellowship in complex general surgical oncology was completed at City of Hope National Medical Center. Dr. Lafaro’s expertise includes pancreatic adenocarcinoma, pancreatic cystic neosplasms, neuroendocrine tumors, minimally invasive pancreatic and liver surgeries, and colorectal liver metastases. In addition to her clinical experience, Dr. Lafaro is published in the field of liver and pancreatic cancer. She is interested in the improvement of surgical and post-surgical outcomes.

Hospital Appointments

John Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

09/2019—Present

Sibley Memorial Hospital

Washington DC, DC

Assistant Professor of Surgery

09/2019—Present

Suburban Hospital

Bethesda, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

09/2019—Present

Academic Appointments

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD

Assistant Professor

09/2019—Present