Lisa Madden, MD is Board Certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, and is part of Texas Transplant Institute's Pediatric Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplant team at Methodist Children's Hospital in San Antonio.
During a volunteer trip to El Salvador in the 1990s, Dr. Madden found her purpose and decided to change career paths - from working as an analytical chemist for a large pharmaceutical company to studying medicine and eventually practicing primary care in underserved communities. Her passion for science and her time in the lab, however, steered her toward oncology instead.
"I had originally planned to go into internal medicine, but then I fell in love with pediatrics during the clinical years of medical school. At first I wasn't sure if I could do pediatric oncology, but I was so inspired the patients and their families during an elective rotation at the end of med school, I knew I had found my home, professionally." Then, after a month-long rotation in bone marrow transplant in residency, Dr. Madden had further honed in on her true passion. "Looking back, the transplant portion of my fellowship was the happiest time in all of my medical training," she says, and now she practices pediatric blood and marrow stem cell transplantation.
After completing a Master of Science degree focusing on chemical physics at University of Notre Dame, Dr. Madden completed a medical degree at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in East Lansing. She completed her residency in pediatrics at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, and returned to Michigan to complete her fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Dr. Madden served as Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and performed blood and marrow stem cell transplants at St. Louis Children's Hospital. Her clinical interests include malignant indications for blood and marrow stem cell transplant, alternative stem cell sources such as cord blood and haploidentical transplant, immune and cellular therapy, and she has particular interest in working with adolescents and young adults (AYA) undergoing transplant.