Heather B Neuman, MD, MS, FACS
Associate Professor
- Division of Surgical Oncology
neuman@surgery.wisc.edu
(608) 265-5852
600 Highland Avenue
Box 7375, Clinical Science Center
Madison, WI 53792
Education
- MD, University of Pittsburg School of Medicine, Pittsburg, PA, 2000
- Surgical Oncology Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 2007-2009
- Residency in General Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2000-2005
- National Research Service Award Fellow, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, 2005-2007
- Research Fellow in Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 2005-2007
- MS, Weill Graduate School in Medical Sciences of Cornell University, New York, NY, 2007
Clinical Specialties
Dr. Neuman specializes in surgical oncology with a focus on breast, melanoma and sarcoma. She is certified by the American Board of Surgery.
Dr. Neuman provides a wide range of services including Axillary Lymph Node Dissection, Core Needle Biopsy, Lumpectomy or Partial Mastectomy, Lymph Node Dissection, Melanoma Completion Lymph Node Dissection (Axillary and Groin), Melanoma Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy, Melanoma Wide Local Excision and Skin Closure, Modified Radical Mastectomy, Needle-localized Biopsy, Needle-localized Excision, Radical Resection Soft Tissue Tumor, Sarcoma Removal of Retroperitoneal/intraabdominal Soft Tissue Tumors (Sarcomas), Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy, Simple Mastectomy, Skin-sparing and/or Nipple-sparing Mastectomy, Wide Local Excision Skin With Reconstruction.
Research Interests
Dr. Neuman’s research focuses on patient-oriented clinical outcomes including patient decision-making, quality of life and survivorship.
Recent Publications
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- Acquisition of sexual orientation and gender identity data among NCI Community Oncology Research Program practice groups.
- Cathcart-Rake EJ, Zemla T, Jatoi A, Weaver KE, Neuman H, Kazak AE, Carlos R, Gansauer L, Unger JM, Pajewski NM, Kamen C
- Cancer 2018 Dec 18;
- [PubMed ID: 30561776]
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- Pilot trial of the hu14.18-IL2 immunocytokine in patients with completely resectable recurrent stage III or stage IV melanoma.
- Albertini MR, Yang RK, Ranheim EA, Hank JA, Zuleger CL, Weber S, Neuman H, Hartig G, Weigel T, Mahvi D, Henry MB, Quale R, McFarland T, Gan J, Carmichael L, Kim K, Loibner H, Gillies SD, Sondel PM
- Cancer Immunol. Immunother. 2018 Oct; 67(10): 1647-1658
- [PubMed ID: 30073390]
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- Cancer Care Delivery Research: A Path to Improving the Quality of Oncologic Surgical Care.
- Stankowski-Drengler TJ, Neuman HB
- Surg. Oncol. Clin. N. Am. 2018 10; 27(4): 653-663
- [PubMed ID: 30213410]
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- Multidisciplinary Intraoperative Assessment of Breast Specimens Reduces Number of Positive Margins.
- Tevis SE, Neuman HB, Mittendorf EA, Kuerer HM, Bedrosian I, DeSnyder SM, Thompson AM, Black DM, Scoggins ME, Sahin AA, Hunt KK, Caudle AS
- Ann. Surg. Oncol. 2018 Oct; 25(10): 2932-2938
- [PubMed ID: 29947001]
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- Surgical Management of Lobular Carcinoma In Situ: Analysis of the National Cancer Database.
- Taylor LJ, Steiman J, Schumacher JR, Wilke LG, Greenberg CC, Neuman HB
- Ann. Surg. Oncol. 2018 Aug; 25(8): 2229-2234
- [PubMed ID: 29855831]