Valerie L. Staradub MD

Summary

• Valerie L. Staradub, M.D., F.A.C.S., is Program Director of the SSO Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center at ChristianaCare, where she is also Section Chief for Breast Surgery. She is teaching faculty for the ChristianaCare Surgical Residency and holds a faculty appointment at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University.
  Earlier, she served for 10 years as the Medical Director of the BreastCare Program at Danbury Hospital/WCHN, where she also held the positions of Chair of the Breast Tumor Board and Section Chief of Breast Surgery and served the cancer community as a board member of Ann’s Place. Prior to that, she has served as a Breast Surgeon on the teaching staff of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA, and Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL. She has held faculty positions at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. In addition to teaching surgical residents and breast surgical fellows, she has been active in medical student education and served as a Site Director for the Surgery Clerkship for the Larner College of Medicine, St. George’s University School of Medicine, Ross University Medical School and the AUC School of Medicine.
  Dr. Staradub completed medical school at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and general surgery training at the Medical University of South Carolina. She then completed a Fellowship in Breast Surgery at the McGaw Medical Center at Northwestern University.
  Dr. Staradub is board-certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery, is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Society of Breast Surgeons and Society of Surgical Oncology. She has been named a Top Doctor numerous times nationally and regionally. She has published multiple articles and book chapters and given numerous invited lectures.