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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2020

Daniel Nelson, DO, FACS

Board Certification

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

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Surg Oncol
  • Assn for Acad Surg
  • Excelsior Surgical Society
  • Soc for Surg Alim Tract
  • Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Assoc
  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs

Additional Information

Gender

Male

General Surgery

Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center

4760 Sunset Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90027

United States

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Endocrine (Gland)

  • adrenal cancers/tumors
  • adrenal surgery
  • hyperparathyroidism
  • pancreatic endocrine tumors
  • parathyroid cancer
  • parathyroid surgery
  • pheochromocytoma
  • thyroid nodules/cancer
  • thyroid surgery

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • bile duct malignancies
  • bile duct surgery
  • gallbladder cancer
  • hepatobiliary surgery
  • liver surgery
  • Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc
  • pancreatic cancer
  • pancreatic cysts

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • laparoscopic surgery
  • robotic surgery

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • breast cancer
  • breast masses
  • breast tumors in pregnancy
  • colon cancer screening
  • colon cancer/polyps
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • esophagus cancer/tumors
  • gastrointestinal cancer/tumors
  • melanoma
  • pancreatic cancer/tumors
  • skin cancer
  • stomach cancer/tumors
  • Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

Hospital Appointments

Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital

Yongsan, South Korea, AP

Surgeon

07/2015—06/2016

William Beaumont Army Medical Center

El Paso, TX

Surgeon

07/2018—07/2023

The Hospitals of Providence

El Paso, TX

Surgeon

06/2019—06/2023

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, TX

Specialist

08/2023—Present

Academic Appointments

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert

Bethesda, MD

Clinical Instructor

09/2014—07/2015

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert

Bethesda, MD

Assistant Professor

07/2015—08/2020

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L Foster School of M

El Paso, TX

Clinical Assistant Professor

09/2019—07/2023

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert

Bethesda, MD

Associate Professor

08/2020—07/2023