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Christopher Madden, M.D.

Christopher Madden, M.D.

Vice President and Senior Executive Officer Medical Group

Professor

School
Medical School
Department
Health System Affairs EVP | Neurological Surgery

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  • Biography

    Dr. Madden was born in Bethesda, Maryland. He performed his neurosurgery residency at Ohio State and completed a fellowship in skull base surgery at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, England.

    Dr. Madden was named Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, UT Southwestern Medical Group in July 2019. He is responsible for the Medical Group’s clinical practice and clinical administrative functions at all sites of service, including UT Southwestern Hospitals and Clinics, Parkland Health & Hospital System, Children’s Health, the Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System, and all UTSW clinically affiliated partners.

  • Education
    Medical School
    UT Hlth Sci Cntr San Antonio (1995)
    Internship
    Ohio State University Hospital (1996), General Surgery
    Residency
    Ohio State University Hospital (2001), Neurological Surgery
    Fellowship
    Addenbrook's Hospital (2002), Neurological Surgery
  • Research Interest
    • Neurotrauma
    • Skull base surgery
    • Spinal neurosurgery
    • Surgery for epilepsy
    • Vascular neurosurgery
  • Publications

    Star Featured Publications

    Cerebellar Infarction from a Traumatic Vertebral Artery Dissection in a Child
    Kim S, Kosnik E, Madden C, Russin J, Wack D, Bartowski H.
    Cervical Spondylytic Myelopathy: Operative Indications, Approaches and Results
    Kumar V, Madden C, Rea GL. Youman’s Neurological Surgery 2004 5th Edition Philadelphia, PA WB Saunders
    Evaluation of Lumbar Disc Disease
    Madden C, Rea GL. Neurobase CD Rom Textbook 1999 Arbor Publishing, SanDiego
    Lytic Skull Metastasis From a Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma in a Child
    Kim S, Kosnik E, Madden C, Gordon T, Rusin J. Pediatric Neurosurgery 1998 28(2) 84-88
    Cerebellar Infarction from a Traumatic Vertebral Artery Dissection in a Child
    Kim S, Kosnik E, Madden C, Russin J, Wack D, Bartowski H. Pediatric Neurosurgery 1997 27(1) 71-77
  • Honors & Awards
    • Lawrence J. Mervis Faculty Teaching Award
      Ohio State University Division of Neurosurgery (2003)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • American Association of Neurological Surgeons
    • American Medical Association
    • Congress of Neurological Surgeons
    • Neurocritical Care Society