Dr. Kshama Jaiswal is a Breast Surgical Oncologist who has been practicing in
the Denver, Colorado, USA area since 2011. Dr. Jaiswal completed medical
school and general surgery residency at the University of Texas Southwestern in
Dallas, Texas. She pursued a surgical oncology fellowship at the National
Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland working on pancreatic cancer stem cell
research. After being on faculty at the NCI for a year, Dr. Jaiswal pursued further
specialization through the clinical Breast Surgical Oncology fellowship at
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She then joined the
faculty at Denver Health Medical Center, as its first fellowship-trained Breast
Surgeon. She has transitioned to the University of Colorado School of Medicine
(CUSOM) and the CU Department of Surgery in 2022. Dr. Jaiswal has
numerous educational roles at CUSOM. She is the Surgical Clinical Content
Director, which examines surgical aspects of all 4 years of medical school
training. She is also integrally involved in the General Surgery Residency
Program as an Associate Program Director. She also is the first to hold the
position of Graduate Medical Eduction Director of Wellbeing.
Dr. Jaiswal’s main professional and scientific interests focus on access to care
for patients with breast cancer, surgical education at both the medical student
and residency levels, and the changing the culture of surgery to emphasize
provider wellbeing.
