Valerie Staradub, M.D., FACS, breast surgery section chief in ChristianaCare’s Department of Surgery, has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition (DBCC). She also serves as program director of the Surgical Society of Oncology Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute.
Since joining ChristianaCare in 2021, Dr. Staradub has led the breast surgery program while also playing a key role in surgical education and academic leadership. Prior to that, she served as medical director of the Breast Care Program at Danbury Hospital and held faculty and surgical appointments at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Harvard Medical School.