Dr. Kshama Jaiswal

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.