Curriculum Vitae

Elizabeth A. Peralta, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of General Surgery
E-mail: eperalta@siumed.edu

Specialities

• Breast cancer
• Pancreatic tumors
• Soft tissue sarcomas

Brief Biography

Dr. Elizabeth Peralta is an assistant professor in the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.
Dr. Peralta received her medical degree from the University of California in Irvine. She completed her general surgery residency at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle and then a surgical oncology fellowship at the City of Hope National Medical Center in California. While in California, Dr. Peralta served as Education Committee Chair for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Los Angeles Affiliate.
Dr. Peralta is board certified in general surgery. She is an associate member of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Society of Surgical Oncology. Her surgical interests include breast cancer, gastrointestinal tumors and melanoma.
She has received regional and national awards for research and presentations. Dr. Peralta's research concerns cancer prevention through nutrition and weight control.

Education and Post Graduate Training

• 1978-1980 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 1980-1987 University of California, Berkeley, California
  Bachelor of Arts in Physiology
• 1988-1992 University of California, California College of Medicine, Irvine, California
  Doctor of Medicine
• 1997-2000 City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California
  Surgical Oncology Fellow.
• 1992-1997 Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington General Surgery Resident
• September 1997 Society of Surgical Oncology Advanced Laparoscopic Skills
• June 1998 American Association of Immunology Advanced Course in Immunology
• July 1998 Berlex Cancer Foundation Biostatistics
• February 1999 City of Hope Clinical Cancer Genetics Emerging Genetic Technologies in Gastrointestinal Cancers: A Multidisciplinary Approach for the Clinician

Board Certification

American Board of Surgery -- June 9, 1998

Awards and Honors

• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, elected 5/13/91
• James Ewing Foundation Trainee Grant 3/26/98
• American College of Surgeons, Washington State Chapter, Henry N. Harkins Resident Paper Competition, First place 6/17/96
• University of California, Irvine J. Gordon Hatfield Award for Excellence in Surgery 6/13/92
• University of California, Irvine Distinguished Achievement Award in Pathology 5/15/90

Licensure

• California, M.D.
• X-Ray Supervisor and Operator, California permit
• Washington State, M.D.

Presentations

• Southwestern Surgical Congress 52nd Annual Meeting, Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Improves the Outcome of Selected Patients with Breast Cancer, Colorado Springs, CO, April 11, 2000
• Los Angeles Surgical Society, Efficacy of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy, Los Angeles, California, November 11, 1999
• Society of Surgical Oncology Annual Meeting, Immunotherapy of Bladder Cancer: Targeting p53 in a SCID mouse model, San Diego, California, March 26 1998
• Grand Rounds, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Malignant Melanoma of the Head and Neck; The Virginia Mason Experience, Seattle, Washington, April 18, 1997
• Pacific Coast Surgical Association Annual Meeting, Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Tumors of the Pancreas, Napa, California, February 19, 1997
• Triological Society Western Section Meeting, Malignant Melanoma of the Head and Neck; Effect of Treatment on Survival, Tucson, Arizona January 12, 1996
• American College of Surgeons, Washington State Chapter Annual Meeting, Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms of the Pancreas, Stevenson, Washington, June 17, 1996
• Seattle Surgical Society Annual Meeting, Surgical Sed Rate, January 11, 1993

Publications

• Peralta E.A. and Yarington C.T., Malignant Melanoma of the Head and Neck: Effect of Treatment on Survival. Laryngoscope 1998;108 (2):200-203.
• Traverso L.W., Peralta E.A., Ryan J.R., Kozarek RA, Intraductal Neoplasms of the Pancreas, Am. J. Surg. 1998 175 (5):426-432.
• McCarty, T.M., Liu X., Sun J., Peralta E.A., Diamond D. J., and Ellenhorn J.D.I, Targeting p53 for Adoptive T Cell Immunotherapy, Cancer Res. 1998 58 (12):2601-2605.
• Peralta E.A., McCarty T.M., Liu X.P., Wilson, T.G., Diamond D.J., and Ellenhorn J.D.I. Immunotherapy of Bladder Cancer Targeting p53. J. Urol. 1999 162(5):1806-11.
• Schwarz, R.E., McCarty T.M., Peralta E.A., Ellenhorn J.D.I., An Orthotopic in vivo model of Human Pancreatic Cancer, Surgery, 1999 126:562-567.
• Peralta E.A., Ellenhorn,JDI, Wagman L.D. , Andersen, J.D., Chu, D.Z. Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Improves the Outcome of Selected Patients with Breast Cancer, Am J Surg, submitted.
• Liu, X.P., Peralta E.A., Ellenhorn, J.D.I.,Diamond, D.J. Specific Recognition of Human p53 Over-Expressing Tumor Cells by an HLA A*0201-Restricted Murine T-Cell Receptor Expressed in Jurkat T Cells, Cancer Res. 2000 60:693-670

Abstracts and Posters

• Peralta EA, Liu XP, Diamond DJ, Ellenhorn JDI., Transfer of a p53 specific T cell receptor from murine to human T cells. SSO Cancer Symposium, Orlando, FL, March 4, 1999.
• Liu XP, Peralta EA, Diamond DJ, Ellenhorn JDI., Specific recognition of human p53 overexpressing tumor cells by an HLA A2.1-restricted murine T cell receptor expressed in Jurkat T cells. AACR Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, April 10, 1999.

Research

• Interaction of vitamin E succinate and tamoxifen in the modulation of angiogenesis in breast cancer, July 2000 to present
• Scanning a nonamer positional synthetic peptide library for p53 cytotoxic T cell epitopes, January 1999 to June 2000.
• Immunotherapy of bladder cancer: targetting p53 in a SCID mouse model, City of Hope National Cancer Center, July 1997 to June 2000.
• Inhibitory effect of the 5'untranslated region of the yes protooncogene, University of California, Irvine, Dept. of Biological Chemistry, June - Sept. 1989.
• Aberrant immunoglobulin gene rearrangement in severe combined immune deficiency, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Immunology, May 1987-July 1988.

Memberships

• American College of Surgeons, Associate Member
• American Medical Association September 1988 to present
• Society of Surgical Oncology, Candidate, July 1997 to present
• American Association for Cancer Research, Associate, January 1998 to present

Appointments

• Bioethics Committee, City of Hope National Cancer Center, June 1998 to 1999
• Education Committee Chair, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Los Angeles Affiliate, January 1998 to 2000
• President of House Staff, Virginia Mason Medical Center, 1995- 1997
• Educational Policy Committee, Virginia Mason Medical Center, 1995- 1997.