Dr. Dua Promoted to Professor

October 29, 2024

Dr. Monica Dua has been promoted to Clinical Professor in Surgery effective November 1, 2024. Dr. Dua has served in our Division of General Surgery’s Hepatopancreatobiliary Section since 2015.

“Dr. Dua has made many outstanding clinical, educational and research contributions here at Stanford and nationally. She is a quintessential academic surgeon with leadership roles in many of our leading societies,” said Division of General Surgery Chief Dr. Electron Kebebew. “We look forward to her continued contributions here on the farm and nationally.”

Dr. Dua serves as Associate Program Director, Resident Wellness Curriculum for Stanford’s General Surgery Residency Program and Associate Program Director for the Hepatopancreatobiliary Fellowship Program. Outside Stanford she serves as Chair of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract’s Pancreas Subcommittee and Chair of the Association for Academic Surgery’s Education Committee.

Dr. Dua earned her Medical Degree at Drexel University. She completed her internship and junior residency years at University California, San Francisco before coming to Stanford in 2008 as a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Vascular Surgery. She then completed her General Surgery Residency at Stanford. She went on to complete a fellowship in Advanced Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery at Cleveland Clinic followed by a fellowship in Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery at Stanford.

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