Dr. Tasha M. Hughes

Tasha M. Hughes, MD, MPH — Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery; Associate Chair, Department of Surgery, Michigan Medicine / University of Michigan Medical School, USA. 

Dr. Hughes is a board-certified surgical oncologist specializing in the treatment of breast cancer and melanoma. She completed her medical degree at Rush Medical College (2010), her general surgery residency at Rush University Medical Center, and a fellowship in Complex General Surgical Oncology at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. 

Her clinical practice is centered at the Rogel Cancer Center (University of Michigan), where she treats patients with diverse breast pathologies — including DCIS, invasive ductal and lobular carcinoma, inflammatory breast cancer, male breast cancer, and metastatic disease and leads programs such as early detection, sentinel lymph-node biopsy, and lymphedema screening.

In addition to her surgical work, Dr. Hughes is actively engaged in health services research. Her research program focuses on provider-patient communication, implicit and explicit provider bias, healthcare disparities, decision-making in cancer care, patient safety and quality of care. She contributes to both clinical care and academic knowledge, bridging oncology surgery with health policy, equity and quality research. Dr. Hughes is a member of key institutional centers including the Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation and the Rogel Cancer Center at Michigan Medicine.