Welcome Kshama Jaiswal, MD
Kshama R. Jaiswal, MD, FACS, is a fellowship-trained surgical breast oncologist at University of Utah Health and Huntsman Cancer Institute specializing in the surgical treatment of breast cancer and benign breast diseases.
Dr. Jaiswal’s Clinical Specialties Include:
- Breast Surgery
- Nipple preserving mastectomy
- Breast conservation surgery
- Total mastectomy
- Axillary sentinel node biopsy
- Complete axillary dissection
- Image-guided lumpectomy
- Skin-sparing mastectomy
- Benign lumpectomy
Dr. Jaiswal received her undergraduate degree from Southern Methodist University, followed by a medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, both in Dallas, Texas. She completed her surgical residency in 2007 at the same institution whose flagship training facility is the busy county, safety-net Parkland Memorial Hospital. During residency, she developed an interest in research and pursued a surgical oncology fellowship at the National Cancer Institute. After completing the fellowship in 2009, she stayed as clinical faculty at the NCI while continuing her research in pancreatic cancer stem cells. In 2010, she focused her career and interest in cancer stem cells towards breast cancer and moved to Manhattan to pursue another fellowship. In 2011, she completed a breast surgical oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, one of the country’s leading cancer treatment programs. Upon completion of this fellowship, she was recruited to the county safety-net Denver Health Medical Center as its first fellowship-trained breast surgeon. Simultaneously, she was a leader in surgical education at the University of Colorado. She was recruited by the University of Utah in 2024.
From 2020 – 2024, Dr. Jaiswal was a member of the Academy of Medical Educators at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, received the Academy’s Medical Educator Award for Excellence in Direct Teaching at the University of Colorado in 2018, and was awarded the Golden Apple Faculty Teacher of the Year Award in 2016.
Dr. Jaiswal’s Research Interests Include:
- Surgical Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships
- Graduate Medical Education Wellbeing
- Timeliness of Breast Cancer Care
Dr. Jaiswal has recently been learning to play the cello and loves to practice and play in her spare time.
