Dr. Michael J. Stamos, Dean, UC Irvine School of Medicine

Dean, UC Irvine School of Medicine

Dr. Michael J. Stamos the dean of the UC Irvine School of Medicine and a colorectal surgeon at UCI Health.

He is a pioneer in minimally invasive surgery, with more than 20 years of experience performing minimally invasive resections for colon and rectal cancer, as well as other colorectal disorders. He is board-certified in general surgery, as well as colon and rectal surgery, and specializes in sphincter salvage operations for rectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease, with an emphasis on preserving a patient's function.

As medical school dean, Stamos is actively involved in teaching and training other physicians in these advanced minimally invasive techniques, both locally and nationally. In addition to helping write and publish national guidelines for training, he has published more than 185 peer-reviewed publications and 35 book chapters. He is regularly recognized by Best Doctors in America®, America’s Top Doctors for Cancer® and the Orange County Medical Association’s Physicians of Excellence. He is the immediate past president of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and is past president of the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery.

Stamos completed his general surgery residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, followed by a fellowship in colon and rectal surgery at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans. He joined the faculty at UCLA in 1991 and developed the section of colon and rectal surgery at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where he remained for more than a decade before joining UCI Health and the UCI School of Medicine in 2002. In 2010, he assumed the position as chair of the Department of Surgery. In July 2017, he was named dean of the medical school.