Cindy B. Matsen, MD

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  • Cindy B. Matsen is a fellowship trained breast surgeon at the University of Utah, Huntsman Cancer Institute. She is board certified in General Surgery and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery and specializes in the surgical treatment of breast cancer and benign breast diseases. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon and her MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She then completed a residency in General Surgery at the University of Utah and a fellowship in Breast Surgical Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She has special interests in young breast cancer patients, doctor-patient communication, patient education, and decision making. She has research interests in shared decision making, health communication, and cancer care delivery. Her works focuses on better understanding how shared decision making is viewed and implemented by providers and designing interventions to improve the shared decision making process. She is particularly interested in preference elicitation and how better training of providers in preference elicitation techniques can improve cancer outcomes. She enjoys collaborative work and has ongoing collaborations with researchers in communication, population health, epidemiology, engineering, and molecular biology. Her overall goal is to improve our ability to provide patient-centered care for cancer patients.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Surgery - Primary
    Academic Divisions General Surgery

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    4.9/5

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    November 27, 2022

    Dr Matsen is the best! I'm so glad she has been my doctor.

    November 20, 2022

    Caring and straightforward

    November 18, 2022

    Dr. Matsen is amazing and would highly recommend her.

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  • Cindy B. Matsen is a fellowship trained breast surgeon at the University of Utah, Huntsman Cancer Institute. She is board certified in General Surgery and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery and specializes in the surgical treatment of breast cancer and benign breast diseases. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon and her MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She then completed a residency in General Surgery at the University of Utah and a fellowship in Breast Surgical Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She has special interests in young breast cancer patients, doctor-patient communication, patient education, and decision making. She has research interests in shared decision making, health communication, and cancer care delivery. Her works focuses on better understanding how shared decision making is viewed and implemented by providers and designing interventions to improve the shared decision making process. She is particularly interested in preference elicitation and how better training of providers in preference elicitation techniques can improve cancer outcomes. She enjoys collaborative work and has ongoing collaborations with researchers in communication, population health, epidemiology, engineering, and molecular biology. Her overall goal is to improve our ability to provide patient-centered care for cancer patients.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Surgery -Primary
    Academic Divisions General Surgery

    Research interests

    Education history

    Graduate Training Health Services Research - University of Utah M.S.C.I
    Breast Surgical Oncology - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Fellow
    Residency General Surgery - University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals Resident
    Medicine - University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine M.D.
    Undergraduate Biology - University of Oregon B.S.

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