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Kelly Olino, MD, FACS

Assistant Professor of Surgery (Oncology)
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Additional Titles

Leader, Skin Cancer Surgery, Melanoma Program

Clinical Director of the Smilow Melanoma Program, Yale Cancer Center

Co-Director Cutaneous Malignancy Tumor Board, Yale Cancer Center

Medical Student Clerkship Liaison for Division of Surgical Oncology, Surgery

Contact Info

Surgical Oncology

310 Cedar Street, FMB130

New Haven, CT 06520

United States

About

Titles

Assistant Professor of Surgery (Oncology)

Leader, Skin Cancer Surgery, Melanoma Program; Clinical Director of the Smilow Melanoma Program, Yale Cancer Center; Co-Director Cutaneous Malignancy Tumor Board, Yale Cancer Center; Medical Student Clerkship Liaison for Division of Surgical Oncology, Surgery

Biography

Kelly Olino, MD, FACS, is a doubly board -certified surgeon who provides patients with comprehensive surgical care including resection of skin and soft tissue tumors including melanoma, merkel cell carcinoma, sarcoma, and advanced cutaneous squamous cell and basal cell carcinoma, including minimally invasive techniques for metastatic disease. Dr. Olino is a past recipient of the Society for Surgical Oncology’s Clinical Investigator Award to support her research in tumor immunology. She continues this work at Yale and has been funded through the Calabresi Immune-Oncology scholar program and the Skin Cancer SPORE career enhancement program. She continues her work in translational research combining her knowledge of tumor immunology with her clinical acumen. She currently serves on the NCCN non-melanoma cutaneous malignancy committee.

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Appointments

Education & Training

Fellowship
The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2015)
Residency
The Johns Hopkins Hospital (2013)
MD
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2005)
BS
Cornell University, Biological Sciences-Neurobiology (2000)

Research

Overview

Tumor immunology

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Adrenocortical Carcinoma; Carcinoma, Merkel Cell; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell; Immunotherapy; Melanoma; Soft Tissue Neoplasms; Surgical Oncology

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Kelly Olino's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

Clinical Trials

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • activity

    The Society of Surgical Oncology

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    Association for Academic Surgery

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    Schwartz Cancer Center Grand Rounds Planning Committee

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    Yale New Haven Hospital Credentials Committee

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    Status of Women in Medicine- Department of Surgery Liason

Clinical Care

Overview

Kelly Olino, MD, is a surgical oncologist with additional training in cancer immunotherapy. She treats skin cancer in patients who range from teenagers to people in their 90s. “I see a wide variety of people, because skin cancer affects everybody, unfortunately,” she says.

As a surgeon, Dr. Olino cares for patients in the office and in the operating room, removing skin and soft tissue tumors that occur anywhere on the body, and performing minimally invasive surgeries to treat metastatic skin cancer when it spreads to internal organs. “When I am treating a patient with skin cancer, I think not only about the technical expertise required to perform a given surgery, but more importantly how the surgery fits into the scope of a larger plan for that patient,” says Dr. Olino, who has additional training in immunotherapy, which she describes as a “revolutionary” step in the treatment of skin cancer. Skin cancer specialists were among the first doctors to successfully use immunotherapy, which harnesses the body’s own immune system to target cancer.

Dr. Olino decided to become a surgical oncologist partly because the patients she met as a trainee were so appreciative. She, in turn, has always taken the time to make sure each patient fully understands his or her condition and treatment. “Patients should know what's going on. Their families should know. I joke with them all the time. I say to them, "You know, I'm bilingual. I speak “Doctor” and I speak English, so please let me know if I start to speak “Doctor,” because if you don’t understand what I’m doing and why, it's time for me to explain it again.”

As an assistant professor of surgery at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Olino focuses her research on immunotherapy for skin cancer. She is currently part of a team that is looking at novel ways to combine different types of immunotherapies and move those therapies from the laboratory to patient care clinics.

Clinical Specialties

Melanoma and Onco-Dermatology; Sarcoma; Surgical Oncology

Fact Sheets

Board Certifications

  • Complex General Surgical Oncology

    Certification Organization
    AB of Surgery
    Original Certification Date
    2016
  • Surgery General

    Certification Organization
    AB of Surgery
    Original Certification Date
    2013

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Surgical Oncology

310 Cedar Street, FMB130

New Haven, CT 06520

United States

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