Dr. Brandice T. Durkan, MD

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Get to know General Surgeon Dr. Brandeis T. Durkan, who serves patients in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Dr. Durkan is a board-certified general surgeon and breast surgeon who specializes in bariatric surgery, comprehensive surgical breast care and minimally invasive surgery. She serves as an attending physician at OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center.

OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center (formerly Tuality Healthcare) is a 167-bed hospital providing state-of-the-art acute care and a level 2 newborn intensive care unit. Using skill and compassion, they are building a healthier community by bringing quality clinical care and unparalleled service to the region, in partnership with their patients, physicians and health care professionals.

Academically, Dr. Durkan graduated with her medical degree from the Thomas Jefferson University Sidney Kimmel Medical College. She completed her residency and fellowship at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

As a testament of her continued education, the doctor is board-certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery (ABS). The ABS is an independent, non-profit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded for the purpose of certifying surgeons who have met a defined standard of education, training, and knowledge.

Active in academia, Dr. Durkan serves as an Assistant Professor within the Department of Bariatric Surgery at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine.

Having authored research papers that specialized in areas of general surgery, she also served as an emergency medical technician and on the ski patrol at Keystone Resort in Colorado.

General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. A general surgeon performs a wide range of abdominal surgeries for many forms of intestinal and abdominal wall neoplasms, gallbladder disease, gastric and pancreatic disease. They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care.

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