Kshama R. Jaiswal is breast surgical oncologist who is transitioning to join the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute in April 2024.  Dr. Jaiswal received an undergraduate degree from Southern Methodist University followed by a medical degree from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, both in Dallas, Texas. She completed 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.   Currently she is at the University of Colorado and is a leader in surgical education.