Daniel A. Anaya, M.D.

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington 98195-6410

Email:  danaya@u.washington.edu

Dr. Anaya completed medical school training at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia. Subsequently he did a research fellowship in surgical infections at FSFB University Hospital in Bogota and with the Latin American Federation of Surgical Societies (FELAC) for two years. During this time he developed and was the Editor of the book for the course "Wound and Surgical Infections" for surgeons, which was developed by FELAC and has been given in multiple countries in Central and South America. He then completed a General Surgery Residency at University of Washington in Seattle. During this time he was the primary investigator of multiple surgical infection-related studies, for which he was awarded with the Surgical Infection Society Best Paper Award three years in a row. After completing his residency, Dr. Anaya received subspecialty training by completing a Surgical Oncology fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery,  Surgical Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine and the Director of the Cancer Center and the Liver Tumor Program at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, where he is also an research scientists in the Houston Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence. Dr. Anaya’s research is focused on multidisciplinary management of cancer, treatment of elderly patients with colorectal and liver cancer, and surgical infections including necrotizing soft tissue infections and surgical site infections in patients with cancer. He has received 5 different grants to support his work in related topics and has coauthored over 12 book chapters and 38 peer-review articles.