Samuel Luka, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.S.C.R.S.

Professional Background

Dr. Samuel R. Luka, MD, FACS, FASCRS is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Oncologic Surgery Division for Colon and Rectal Surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Dr. Luka was raised in the suburbs of Chicago, and he graduated from Washington University in Saint Louis. He then received a Master of Science degree from Georgetown University before obtaining his Medical Degree from Saint Louis University. His General Surgery training was done at George Washington University, and he then pursued additional fellowship training in Colon and Rectal Surgery at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson.

• BA, Philosophy, Psychology, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO
• MS, Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
• MD, Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO
• Residency, General Surgery, George Washington University, Washington, DC
• Clinical Fellowship, Colorectal Surgery, Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ

• Colorectal Surgery, American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery
• General Surgery, American Board of Surgery
• Medical License, Kansas State Board of Healing Arts
• Medical License, Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts

• American College of Surgeons - Kansas Chapter, Member, 2022 - Present
• American College of Surgeons - Kansas Chapter, Annual Chapter Meeting Committee, 2022 - 2024
• American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Fellow, 2021 - Present
• American College of Surgeons, Fellow, 2019 - Present
• American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Member, 2019 - 2021
• American College of Surgeons, Member, 2017 - 2019

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• Harr JN, Juo YY, Luka S, Agarwal S, Brody F, Obias V. 2016. Incisional and port-site hernias following robotic colorectal surgery.. Surgical endoscopy, 30 (8), 3505-10
• Gnerlich JL, Luka SR, Deshpande AD, Dubray BJ, Weir JS, Carpenter DH, Brunt EM, Strasberg SM, Hawkins WG, Linehan DC. 2012. Microscopic margins and patterns of treatment failure in resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma.. Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960), 147 (8), 753-60
• Harr JN, Luka S, Kankaria A, Juo YY, Agarwal S, Obias V. 2017. Robotic-assisted colorectal surgery in obese patients: a case-matched series.. Surgical endoscopy, 31 (7), 2813-2819
• Juo YY, Agarwal S, Luka S, Satey S, Obias V. 2015. Single-Incision Robotic Colectomy (SIRC) case series: initial experience at a single center.. Surgical endoscopy, 29 (7), 1976-81
• Juo YY, Luka S, Obias V. 2015. Single-incision robotic colectomy (SIRC): Current status and future directions.. Journal of surgical oncology, 112 (3), 321-5
• Holzmacher JL, Luka S, Aziz M, Amdur RL, Agarwal S, Obias V. 2017. The Use of Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgical Stapling Devices During Minimally Invasive Colon and Rectal Surgery: A Comparison.. Journal of laparoendoscopic & advanced surgical techniques. Part A, 27 (2), 151-155