Skye C. Mayo, M.D., M.P.H., FACS

  • Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, School of Medicine
  • Director of Hepatic Arterial Infusion for Advanced Liver Malignancies, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Skye Mayo is board certified in both Complex General Surgical Oncology and in General Surgery. His clinical practice serves patients with tumors of the liver, bile ducts, and pancreas. He also treats patients with gall bladder cancer, cancers of the stomach and digestive system, and retroperitoneal sarcomas.  His research focuses on helping patients with cancers that have spread to or arise in the liver, such as colorectal cancer and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.

Dr. Mayo’s family settled in Southeastern Oregon in the 1860s and established a cattle ranch. He was born in Burns and then moved to Central Oregon. After graduating from Stanford University he returned to Oregon for medical school combined with a Masters degree with public health in the epidemiology and biostatistics track. During his surgical residency at Johns Hopkins his clinical and research work focused on the treatment of patients with pancreatic and liver cancers.  He completed a research fellowship in Cancer Immunology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins investigating the role of immune therapy in patients with metastatic liver disease. His surgical oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York was focused in advanced Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery where he was also certified to perform robotic cancer operations.

He is a member of a talented team of surgeons and oncologists at OHSU where he uses his experience and research to help advance the treatment of patients with cancers of the liver, bile ducts, and pancreas.  He is a member of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute and of the Southwest Oncology Group, which offers patients the latest in cancer care through participation in clinical trials. His research at OHSU involves using hepatic arterial regional therapy for patients with liver and bile duct cancers and investigating how to harness the immune system to fight cancer. Specifically, his research efforts are directed toward the early detection of recurrent cancer and monitoring responses to treatment in patients with colorectal cancer metastatic to the liver.

Dr. Mayo views it as a privilege to work with patients, their families, and primary care doctors to develop the best treatment plans. He is dedicated to offering the highest quality of service. He looks forward to working with other cancer specialists to help give his patients the most options and the best possible outcome.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • M.D., 2006, OHSU
    • M.P.H., 2006, OHSU School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
  • Residency

    • General Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, 2006-2013
  • Fellowship

    • Cancer Immunology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, 2009-2011
    • Complex General Surgical Oncology, Hepatopancreatobiliary Focus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 2013-2015
  • Certifications

    • American Board of Surgery, General Surgery, 2013
    • American Board of Surgery, Complex General Surgical Oncology, 2016

Memberships and associations:

  • Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO)
  • Americas Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association (AHPBA)
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
  • Connective Tissue Oncology Society (CTOS, Sarcoma)
  • American Association of Cancer Research (AACR)
  • Johns Hopkins Surgery, Old Hands Club
  • American College of Surgeons
  • North Pacific Surgical Association
  • Portland Surgical Society
  • Mackenzie Surgical Society
  • Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society
  • SWOG (Southwest Oncology Group) Surgery and Gastrointestinal Oncology Committee Member
  • Trans Atlantic Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Working Group (TARPSWG), Member
  • International Cholangiocarcinoma Research Network, Surgical Oncology Committee (ICRN)

Areas of interest

  • Early Detection of cancer recurrence
  • Liver-directed therapies for metastatic and primary liver cancers
  • Early phase clinical trial development in hepatopancreatobiliary oncology
  • Surgical management of giant retroperitoneal sarcoma
  • Risk factors for developing intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
  • Cancer immunology

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • Adjuvant imatinib in high-risk resected gastrointestinal stromal tumors

    Journal of surgical oncology
    1. Thomas L. Sutton
    2. Kevin G. Billingsley
    3. Alicia J. Johnson
    4. Christopher L. Corless
    5. Charles D. Blanke
    6. Michael C. Heinrich
    7. Skye C. Mayo
  • A Modified Floxuridine Reduced-Dose Protocol for Patients with Unresectable Colorectal Liver Metastases Treated with Hepatic Arterial Infusion

    Annals of surgical oncology
    1. Issac R. Schwantes
    2. Ranish K. Patel
    3. Adel Kardosh
    4. Jillian Paxton
    5. Robert Eil
    6. Emerson Y. Chen
    7. Flavio G. Rocha
    8. Emile Latour
    9. Guillaume Pegna
    10. Charles D. Lopez
    11. Skye C. Mayo
  • ASO Author Reflections

    Annals of surgical oncology
    1. Issac R. Schwantes
    2. Ranish K. Patel
    3. Adel Kardosh
    4. Charles D. Lopez
    5. Skye C. Mayo
  • Circulating Neoplastic-Immune Hybrid Cells Are Biomarkers of Occult Metastasis and Treatment Response in Pancreatic Cancer

    Cancers
    1. Ranish K. Patel
    2. Michael Parappilly
    3. Hannah C. Farley
    4. Emile J. Latour
    5. Lei G. Wang
    6. Ashvin M. Nair
    7. Ethan S. Lu
    8. Zachary Sims
    9. Byung Park
    10. Katherine Nelson
    11. Skye C. Mayo
    12. Gordon B. Mills
    13. Brett C. Sheppard
    14. Young Hwan Chang
    15. Summer L. Gibbs
    16. Adel Kardosh
    17. Charles D. Lopez
    18. Melissa H. Wong
  • Clinician overconfidence in visual estimation of the posthepatectomy liver remnant volume

    Surgery (United States)
    1. Camelia Forton
    2. Victor Sandoval
    3. Issac R. Schwantes
    4. Ranish K. Patel
    5. Kenneth J. Kolbeck
    6. Elizabeth N. Dewey
    7. Elena K. Korngold
    8. Skye C. Mayo
  • Expert Commentary on Hepatic Artery Infusion Pump Chemotherapy for Colorectal Liver Metastases

    Diseases of the colon and rectum
    1. Skye C. Mayo
  • Exploratory Analyses of Circulating Neoplastic-Immune Hybrid Cells as Prognostic Biomarkers in Advanced Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

    International journal of molecular sciences
    1. Ranish K. Patel
    2. Michael S. Parappilly
    3. Brett S. Walker
    4. Robert T. Heussner
    5. Alice Fung
    6. Young Hwan Chang
    7. Adel Kardosh
    8. Charles D. Lopez
    9. Skye C. Mayo
    10. Melissa H. Wong
  • Liver-First Resection in Patients With Synchronous Colorectal Liver Metastases Is Associated with Inferior Recurrence-Free Survival

    Diseases of the colon and rectum
    1. Thomas L. Sutton
    2. Ranish K. Patel
    3. Katherine M. Watson
    4. Ivy H. Gardner
    5. Daniel O. Herzig
    6. V. Liana Tsikitis
    7. Emerson Y. Chen
    8. Skye C. Mayo
  • Outcomes of Late-Line Systemic Treatment in GIST

    Cancers
    1. Prapassorn Thirasastr
    2. Thomas L. Sutton
    3. Cissimol P. Joseph
    4. Heather Lin
    5. Behrang Amini
    6. Skye C. Mayo
    7. Dejka Araujo
    8. Robert S. Benjamin
    9. Anthony P. Conley
    10. John A. Livingston
    11. Joseph Ludwig
    12. Shreyaskumar Patel
    13. Ravin Ratan
    14. Vinod Ravi
    15. Maria A. Zarzour
    16. Elise F. Nassif Haddad
    17. Michael S. Nakazawa
    18. Xiao Zhou
    19. Michael C. Heinrich
    20. Neeta Somaiah
  • Safety and Effectiveness of Portal Vein Embolization after Hepatic Arterial Infusion Therapy

    Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
    1. Ningcheng Li
    2. Issac R. Schwantes
    3. Skye C. Mayo
    4. Brian Park
    5. Yilun Koethe
  • Current Practices in Hepatic Artery Infusion (HAI) Chemotherapy

    Annals of surgical oncology
    1. Sean J. Judge
    2. Tara Ghalambor
    3. Michael J. Cavnar
    4. Michael E. Lidsky
    5. Ryan P. Merkow
    6. May Cho
    7. Ismael Dominguez-Rosado
    8. Paul J. Karanicolas
    9. Skye C. Mayo
    10. Flavio G. Rocha
    11. Ryan C. Fields
    12. Reema A. Patel
    13. Hagen F. Kennecke
    14. Bas Groot Koerkamp
    15. Adam C. Yopp
    16. Henrik Petrowsky
    17. Devalingham Mahalingam
    18. Nancy Kemeny
    19. Michael D’Angelica
    20. Sepideh Gholami
  • Hepatectomy is associated with improved oncologic outcomes in recurrent colorectal liver metastases

    Surgery (United States)
    1. Thomas L. Sutton
    2. Liam H. Wong
    3. Brett S. Walker
    4. Elizabeth N. Dewey
    5. Robert Eil
    6. Charles Lopez
    7. Adel Kardosh
    8. Emerson Chen
    9. Flavio Rocha
    10. Kevin Billingsley
    11. Skye C. Mayo
  • Neoadjuvant therapy does not impact the biliary microbiome in patients with pancreatic cancer

    Journal of surgical oncology
    1. Shay Behrens
    2. Thomas L. Sutton
    3. Ranish Patel
    4. Issac R. Schwantes
    5. Jack O'Grady
    6. Alicia Johnson
    7. Aaron Grossberg
    8. Charles Lopez
    9. Erin Gilbert
    10. Skye Mayo
    11. Brett C. Sheppard
  • Phase 2 study of preoperative chemotherapy with nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine followed by chemoradiation for borderline resectable or node-positive pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

    Cancer medicine
    1. Emerson Y. Chen
    2. Adel Kardosh
    3. Nima Nabavizadeh
    4. Bryan Foster
    5. Skye C. Mayo
    6. Kevin G. Billingsley
    7. Erin W. Gilbert
    8. Christian Lanciault
    9. Aaron Grossberg
    10. Kenneth G. Bensch
    11. Erin Maynard
    12. Eric C. Anderson
    13. Brett C. Sheppard
    14. Charles R. Thomas
    15. Charles D. Lopez
    16. Gina M. Vaccaro
  • Socioeconomic and Geographic Disparities in the Referral and Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer at High-Volume Centers

    JAMA Surgery
    1. Thomas L. Sutton
    2. Blake Beneville
    3. Alicia J. Johnson
    4. Skye Mayo
    5. Erin Gilbert
    6. Charles Lopez
    7. Aaron Grossberg
    8. Flavio Rocha
    9. Brett C. Sheppard
  • The genomics of liver metastases from colon and rectal cancer

    Surgery (United States)
    1. Issac R. Schwantes
    2. Skye C. Mayo
  • Complications in Distal Pancreatectomy versus Radical Antegrade Modular Pancreatosplenectomy

    World journal of surgery
    1. Thomas L. Sutton
    2. Kristin C. Potter
    3. Skye C. Mayo
    4. Rodney Pommier
    5. Erin W. Gilbert
    6. Brett C. Sheppard
  • Considerations and barriers to starting a new HAI pump program

    HPB
    1. Michael Cavnar
    2. Tara Ghalambor
    3. Michael E. Lidsky
    4. Ismael Dominguez-Rosado
    5. May Cho
    6. Paul Karanicolas
    7. Ryan Merkow
    8. Skye C. Mayo
    9. Flavio G. Rocha
    10. Ryan C. Fields
    11. Bas G. Koerkamp
    12. Adam Yopp
    13. Hendrik Petrowsky
    14. Andrea Cercek
    15. Nancy Kemeny
    16. Peter Kingham
    17. William Jarnagin
    18. Peter Allen
    19. Michael D'Angelica
    20. Sepideh Gholami
  • Early Versus Late Recurrence in Rectal Cancer

    Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
    1. Marina Affi Koprowski
    2. Thomas L. Sutton
    3. Nima Nabavizadeh
    4. Charles Thomas
    5. Emerson Chen
    6. Adel Kardosh
    7. Charles Lopez
    8. Skye C. Mayo
    9. Kim Lu
    10. Daniel Herzig
    11. V. Liana Tsikitis
  • Hepatic arterial infusion pump chemotherapy combined with systemic therapy for patients with advanced colorectal liver metastases

    Journal of surgical oncology
    1. Brett S. Walker
    2. Kevin G. Billingsley
    3. Thomas L. Sutton
    4. Kenneth J. Kolbeck
    5. Elena K. Korngold
    6. Nima Nabavizadeh
    7. Elizabeth N. Dewey
    8. Daniel O. Herzig
    9. Charles D. Lopez
    10. Skye C. Mayo
  • Hepatic metastases in gastrointestinal stromal tumors

    HPB
    1. Thomas L. Sutton
    2. Brett S. Walker
    3. Kevin Billingsley
    4. Brett C. Sheppard
    5. Christopher L. Corless
    6. Michael C. Heinrich
    7. Skye C. Mayo
  • Intensive care unit observation after pancreatectomy

    Journal of surgical oncology
    1. Thomas L. Sutton
    2. Kristin C. Potter
    3. Jack O'Grady
    4. Michael Aziz
    5. Skye C. Mayo
    6. Rodney Pommier
    7. Erin W. Gilbert
    8. Flavio Rocha
    9. Brett C. Sheppard