Associate Dean, Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment;
Associate Professor of Surgery
Medical College of Wisconsin
Ugwuji N. Maduekwe, MD, MMSc, MPH, FACS is an Associate Professor and Director of Regional Therapies in the Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Associate Dean and Deputy Director of the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment, a role in which she is focused on supporting actionable projects focused on making Wisconsin the healthiest state. She is also the co-director of the Advancing Cancer Equity in Surgery research collaborative. Her clinical focus is on peritoneal surface malignancies and upper GI cancers while her research focuses on how variations in patterns of surgical oncologic care in gastrointestinal malignancies lead to health disparities. Dr. Maduekwe has an undergraduate degree in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Texas at Dallas, underwent medical training at Harvard Medical School, general surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and complex general surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh.