NAME:
Maung Maung Oo, MD

DATE OF BIRTH:
July 14, 1949

PLACE OF BIRTH:
Yangon ( Rangoon ), Myanmar ( Burma )

CITIZENSHIP:
Naturalized U.S. citizen

M.B., B.S. [M.D.]
Institute of Medicine (1) Rangoon , Burma. (1973)

D.Path.
Institute of Medicine (1) Rangoon , Burma.(1980)

M.S.(Pathology)
Case Western Reserve University , Cleveland, Ohio.(1994)

F.A.C.P. Fellow of the American College of Physicians (2004)

F.A.B.H.P. Fellow of the American Board of Hospital Physicians (2004)

Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Ethical Physicians (2004)

Internal Medicine 1997
Medical Oncology 2000
Hematology 2001

Internal Medicine
Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine (1994-1997)

Hematology/Oncology
Case Western Reserve University (1997-2000)

Texas Medical License number: L0890

(Excluding training experiences)

In USA
- As a practicing Hematologist/Oncologist in USA , I saw and treated different kinds of neoplastic and hematological problems especially coagulopathies.

In Burma
•  As a family practitioner in Danubyu and as a Civil Surgeon at Taungdwingyi and Sunparabun from 1974 through 1978, I have a broad experience on primary care at secondary health centers.

•  I treated a wide array of medical conditions. Particularly prevalent conditions in my practice were malaria, diarrheal diseases, round worm and hook warm infestations, childhood malnutrition (Kwarshiorkor and marusmus), typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and other tropical diseases.

•  I have done emergency surgeries including at least 30 cases of appendectomy, about 20 cases of perforated peptic ulcers, 3 cases of exploratory laporotomies for gun-shot wound, a few incarcerated hernias, and many others. (MORE >>)

(Excluding training experiences)

In Burma (cont'd.)

•  I did many elective surgeries which are possible at the secondary centers where I worked. These include many hernia repairs, amputations for advancing gangrene, out-patient surgeries, casting fractures, etc.

•  Many obstetric procedures including forceps deliveries, vacuum suction deliveries, breach extraction, and about 35 cases of Cesarean sections.

•  Electron microscopy (Transmission, scanning, shadow casting, freeze fracture, etc)

•  Immunoelectron microscopy (Immunoperoxidase and colloidal gold methods)

•  Immunohistology (Immunization and isolation of antibodies in laboratory animals, characterization of antibody, conjugation and staining using FITC and HRPO)

•  Cell mediated immunology (mitogen stimulation, mixed lymphocyte culture, hemolytic plaques, IL2 bioassay, flow cytometry, etc)

•  Malaria culture, mosquito rearing and microdissection.

•  Molecular biology.

•  Member of the Committee of Asia Pacific Societies for Electron Microscopy (CAPSEM)

•  Member of the Association of Clinical Pathologists , Burma .

•  Member of the Burma Medical Association.

•  Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ( U.K. )

•  Member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ( U.S.A. )

•  Fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP).

•  Member of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists. (ASCO)

•  Faculty member of the Institute of Medicine (1) and University of Rangoon , Burma (1981-1990). Supervised 3 master students.
•  Member of the Library Committee and Seminar Committee, Department of Medical Research , Burma (1982-1990).
•  Member of the Seminar Committee, Institute of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (1992-1994).
•  Member of the Education and Research Committee, Aultman Hospital , Canton , Ohio (1994-1997).

- Member of the Cancer Advisory Committee at the Houston Northwest Medical Center. (Sep 2000- Nov 2001)

- Member of the Institutional Review Board, Overlake Hospital Medical Center (July 2003 to December 2003)

Importance of follow up visits after completion of cancer treatment. A presentation given to the cancer survivors at the Houston Northwest Medical Center . 2001.

Colon Cancer. A public presentation at the Memorial Hermann Hospital (the Woodlands) at Houston , Texas . 2001.

Active participation in fund raising activities of American Cancer Society and Moses Lake Cancer Foundation at Moses Lake, Washington State. 2002.

SPECIAL INTERESTS IN HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY:

•  H. Fujiwara, T.C. Kao, J. Shimizu, T. Fujiwara, Maung Maung Oo and Y. Hamashima (1983) Microorganism in the heart in Kawasaki disease. The Lancet, Sep 10, p620.

•  S. Ikehara, R.A. Good, T. Nakamura, K.I. Sekita, S. Inoue, Maung Maung Oo , E. Muso, K. Ogawa and Y. Hamashima (1985) Rationale for bone marrow transplantation in the treatment of autoimmune diseases. Pro Natl Acad Sci 82:2483-2487.

•  T. Nakamura, S. Ikehara, R.A. Good, S. Inoue, Maung Maung Oo and Y. Hamashima (1985) Abnormal stem cells in autoimmune-prone mice are responsible for thymic involution. Thymus 7:151-160.

•  T. Nakamura, S. Ikehara, S. Inoue, Maung Maung Oo and Y. Hamashima (1985). The fate of liver allografts in radiation bone marrow chimeras in mice. Archiv Fur Japanische. Bd.54 Nr. 2, p59-66. (MORE >>)

5.  T. Nakamura, R.A. Good, R. Yasumizu, S. Inoue, Maung Maung Oo , Y. Hamashima and S. Ikehara (1986) Successful liver allografts in mice by combination with allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Pro Natl Acad Sci 83:4529-4532.

6. Maung Maung Oo , M. Aikawa, Than Than, Tin Maung Aye, Pe Than Myint, I. Igarashi and W.C. Schoene (1987) Human cerebral malaria: a pathological study. J Neuropath Expt Neurol 46(2):223-231.

7. I. Igarashi, Maung Maung Oo , H. Stanley, R. Reese and M. Aikawa (1987). Knob antigen deposition in cerebral malaria. Am J Trop Med Hyg 37(3):511-515.

8. M. Aikawa, Maung Maung Oo and I. Igarashi (1986).Human cerebral malaria: a pathological study. Intl Symp on malaria. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 81(Suppl II):191-198. (MORE >>)

9. Kyaw Win and Maung Maung Oo (1987). Pathophysiology of human cerebral malaria. Burma Med J 33(1):31-36.

10. Than Than, N. Francis, Tin Nu Swe, Myint Lwin, Tun Pe, Soe Soe, Maung Maung Oo , R.E. Phillips and D.A. Warrell (1989). Contribution of focal hemorrhage and microvascular fibrin deposition to fatal envenoming by Russell's viper ( Vipera russelli siamensis ) in Burma. Acta Tropica 46:23-38.

11. Maung Maung Oo , S. Ikehara and Y. Hamashima (1989) Immune mechanisms in mouse malaria (1): period of survival correlates with immune deficient status, but not antibody titres and immune complex levels. Myanmar Health Sciences Research Journal 1(2):50-59.

12. Maung Maung Oo and Than Than (1989). Pathogenesis of ring-hemorrhage in cerebral malaria. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 83(5):555-557. (MORE >>)

13. Maung Maung Oo , S. Ikehara and Y. Hamashima (1990). Immune mechanisms in mouse malaria (2): a correlation of survival period and cell mediated immune responses. Myanmar Health Sciences Research Journal 2(1):50-59.

14. M. Aikawa, M. Iseki, J.W. Barnwell, D. Taylor, Maung Maung Oo and R.J. Howard (1990). The pathology of human cerebral malaria. Am J Trop Med Hyg 43(Suppl):30-37.

15. Maung Maung Oo , S. Ikehara, T. Nakamura, S. Inoue and Y. Hamashima (1990). Plasmodium berghei and yoelli: a correlation of survival periods and immunological parameters in BALB/c mice. Jap J Trop Med Hyg 18(3):229-237.

16. T. Tegoshi, J.R. Broderson, M. Iseki, Maung Maung Oo , W.E. Collins and M. Aikawa (1991) Renal pathology in Saimiri monkeys during a vaccine trial using the recombinant circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium vivax .Am J Trop Med Hyg 44(4):406-412. (MORE >>)

Research Articles:

17.L.A. Moskalyk, Maung Maung Oo and M. Jacobs-Lorena (1996) Peritrophic matrix protein of Anopheles gambiae and Aedes aegypti. Insect Molecular Biology 5(4):261-268.

18. Maung Maung Oo , A.Y. Krishna, G.J. Bonavita and G.W. Rutecki (1997) Heparin therapy for myocardial infarction: an unusual trigger for pituitary apoplexy. Am J Med Sci 314(5):351-353.

19. Maung Maung Oo , L.A. Kutteh, O.N. Koc, M. Strauss, H.M. Lazarus (1998) Mucormycosis of petrous bone in allogeneic stem cell transplant recipient. Clin Infect Dis 27:1546-1547.

Traditional Burmese music
Photography
Painting

CURRENT HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS
 ETMC Hospital , Athens

 PREVIOUS HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS
Titus County Regional Hospital -- Mt. Pleasant, TX
Evergreen Hospital Medical Center -- Kirkland , WA
Samaritan Healthcare -- M oses Lake , WA
Houston Northwest Medical Center -- Houston , TX
Northeast Hospital , Humble -- Humble, TX
Memorial Hermann Hospital , The Woodlands, TX

American Medical Association

American Society of Clinical Oncology

American Society of Hematology

Comal County Medical Society

American College of Physicians

Martins JT; Molecular Profiling: Cancer Diagnosis and Therapeutics in the 21st Century. Fellow Reporter, 2002

Martins JT, Garcia-Manero G, Kantarjian H, Issa JP; Methylation of MGMT is infrequently observed in acute Lymphocytic Leukemia. Abstract 4412; ASH 2001

Washington LT, Doherty D, Glassman A, Martins JT, Ibrahim S, Lai R. The Clinical and Pathologic Spectrum of Myeloid Disorders Arring 5q- as the Sole Karyotypic Abnormanity. Leukemia and Lymphoma, 2002 Apr; 43(4): 761-5.

Martins JT, Li DJ, Baskin LB, Jialal I, Keffer JH. Comparison of Cardiac Troponin I and Lactate Dchydrogenase Isoenzymes for the Late Diagnosis of Myocardial Injury. Americal Journal of Clinical Pathology, 1196; 106(6): 705-708

Pharmacology of Oncology Four -hour lecture to the nurses of Guadalupe Valley Hospital to update their certification for chemotherapy administration.

“You’ve Been Diagnosed With Cancer; Now What? A one-hour presentation to the New Braunfels Cancer Support Group, October 2002.

Muir-Torre Syndrome July 19, 2001; Medical Oncology Fellows Case Presentation, MD Anderson, Houston, Texas.

Renal Vein Thrombosis May 2, 2001; Hematology Citywide Conference, Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas.

Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation June 26, 2000; BMT Journal Club, MD Anderson, Houston, Texas.

Combined Chemo/Radiation Therapy for Oropharyngeal Cancer March 30, 2000; Head and Neck/Thoracic Oncology Journal Club, MD Anderson, Houston, Texas.

Acute Leukemias March 22, 2000 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Lecture Series, MD Anderson , Houston, Texas.

Upper Urinary Tract Cancers October 26, 1999; Genitourinary Oncology Journal Club, MD Anderson, Houston, Texas.