Michael Ross, MD
Medical Oncologist
Director – Medical Ethics

“Throughout my years of practice I have had a continuing commitment to my patients and to myself to always remember that I am treating a person with cancer and not just a cancer.”

Michael B. Ross, M. D., was born in Bay Shore, New York, and grew up in Ohio. He attended Western Reserve University in Cleveland, majoring in biology. In 1971, he received his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.

His postgraduate training in internal medicine was started at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital, but was interrupted by the Vietnam War. During active duty with the U. S. Navy, he completed his internal medicine training at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia. His medical oncology fellowship was completed at the M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas.

Prior to moving to Fort Worth, Dr. Ross introduced modern oncology treatment in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, where he was the consulting oncologist in a medical group practice for three years.

Dr. Ross is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Medical Oncology. He was honored for his teaching activities and numerous medical publications by election to the fellowship in the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Ross remains an assistant clinical internist at the M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. In 1988, he was elected president of the Fort Worth chapter of the American Cancer Society.