Anees Chagpar

Yale School of Medicine, USA

Anees is Professor in the Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine. She completed her BSc in Honors Biochemistry and MD with Honors in Research at the University of Alberta, and her general surgery residency training and MSc at the University of Saskatchewan. She went on to complete the Susan G. Komen Interdisciplinary Breast Fellowship at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, an MPH at Harvard School of Public Health, an MA in Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the University of Louisville, and an MBA for Executives with a focus on Leadership in Healthcare from Yale's School of Management. She is a busy breast surgeon who participates in clinical trials, as well as translational and clinical research, is the Breast Surgery Section editor for UpToDate, the Assistant Director for the START@Yale Program, and co-leads the Yale Global Surgery Faculty Network. She has published over 170 papers, including in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. She has given hundreds of talks and workshops all over the world, and teaches a course called "An Introduction to Breast Cancer" on Coursera with over 40,000 learners worldwide. She is as a surveyor for the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers, and is committed to quality improvement in healthcare. In addition, she is passionate about leadership development and promoting equity. To this end, she teaches workshops on Negotiation at the AAMC Mid-WIMS course, Johns Hopkins, and UPenn among others, and serves on a number of advisory boards and professional associations aiming to foster diversity and inclusion in healthcare.