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Director
United States Army Institute of Surgical Research
San Antonio, Texas
Dr. Cancio is the Director of the U.S. Army Burn Center at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (ISR), Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He is a graduate of Amherst College, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and residency in Surgery at Brooke Army Medical Center. He is board certified in Surgery and in Surgical Critical Care. During his 27-year active-duty career in the U.S. Army, he deployed with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82d Airborne Division to Operation Just Cause, Panama, 1989-90 and to Operation Desert Storm, 1990-91. He has served as a burn surgeon at the Army Burn Center since 1995. During Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), he deployed with Special Operations Command – Central Command (SOCCENT) as the Principal Investigator in theater for the hemostatic dressing protocol in 2003. He served as the Deputy Commander for Clinical Services at the 86th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad during OIF in 2005, and served there again in 2008. In 2013 he deployed with a Forward Surgical Team to Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. He retired in the rank of Colonel in 2014. In 2017 he became the first Government civilian Director of the Army Burn Center. Dr. Cancio’s research interests include burn shock, hemorrhagic shock, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and blast injury. He is the author of about 275 peer-reviewed papers, chapters, and other works and is a Professor of Surgery (Adjoint), UT Health San Antonio.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM US CST