• Melanoma Center
• Surgical Oncology Services
• Surgery Services
• Cancer Services

• American Board of Surgery, Complex General Surgical Oncology
• American Board of Surgery, Surgery - General

• English

New York Medical College

UCI School of MedicineGeneral Surgery

University of South Florida/H Lee Moffitt Cancer CenterSurgical Oncology
University of South FloridaSurgical Oncology research fellowship

• Associate Professor — Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, UCI School of Medicine
• Co-director — UCI Health Melanoma Center
• Member — Society of Surgical Oncology
• Member — American College of Surgeons

• Physicians of Excellence, Orange County Medical Association — 2020-2023

Dr. Maki Yamamoto is a board-certified UCI Health surgical oncologist. Her clinical interests include the surgical treatment of skin malignancies such as melanoma and Merkel cell carcinomas; endocrine diseases, such as thyroid cancer, parathyroid disease, adrenal tumors and soft tissue sarcomas.

Yamamoto earned her medical degree at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y. She completed a residency in general surgery at UCI Medical Center and fellowship in surgical oncology at the University of South Florida's Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla. She has published numerous research papers and book chapters in her field.

Yamamoto sees patients at the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center in Orange, UCI Health — Costa Mesa and UCI Health — Laguna Hills. 

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