Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Deepa Magge, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She earned her bachelor degree with summa cum laude distinction in 2004 and MD with cum laude and AOA designation in 2008 from Boston University where she was part of their seven-year medical program. She was awarded the Anne and David Mishel Cancer Research Award for her early interests in oncologic care.
She completed her General Surgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). During her residency, she performed 2 years of basic science and translational research, focusing on oncolytic viral therapy modulation, and was awarded the Resident Research award. Dr. Magge also completed numerous clinical research studies describing regional therapies, including Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) for carcinomatosis secondary to multiple GI malignancies, as well as Isolated Hepatic Perfusion for unresectable liver metastases. Following completion of surgical residency, she remained at UPMC, where she completed a fellowship in Complex Surgical Oncology. Following fellowship, she was an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She served as the Associate Program Director of the CGSO fellowship and focused much of her time on teaching residents and fellows. She became an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in September 2020, where she currently leads the HIPEC program. She has over 30 first or last author publications as well as many other publications as collaborating author in peer-reviewed scientific and clinical journals and has presented her research findings nationally. She is the Associate Program Director of the General Surgery Residency.
She is currently board certified in General Surgery as well as Surgical Oncology.