Rishi Reddy

Biography

Rishindra M. Reddy, M.D., is the José José Alvarez Research Professor in Thoracic Surgery. He earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at Northwestern University and completed his general surgery residency at Washington University-Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. His spent two years during his residency, as a Clinical Research Fellow at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. He completed his Thoracic Surgery residency at the University of Washington and was a visiting fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. His academic interests include improving outcomes for patients with thoracic cancers, molecular targeting for thoracic cancers, resident and medical student education. Dr. Reddy's clinical interests include all aspects of general thoracic surgery including thoracic oncology, minimally invasive techniques and robotics surgery, esophageal diseases, pectus repairs and therapy for end stage lung disease including transplantation and lung volume surgery.  Dr. Reddy has held and currently holds a number of different administrative leadership roles within the Department, the Medical School, and the Health System.  He is the former Surgery Clerkship Director. He is the current Director for the Center for Surgical Innovation, the Chair of the Comprehensive Robotic Surgery Program, and the Associate Director for the Michigan Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery General Thoracic Quality Collaborative.  He is currently engaged in improving the quality of thoracic surgery care at a state-wide level in Michigan and training our surgical faculty and trainees on innovations as a path to academic success.