Gitonga Munene, MD

Gitonga Munene, MD
  • Division Chief, Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgical Sciences
  • Division Chief, Department of Surgical Sciences
  • Chair, Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgical Sciences
  • Chair, Department of Surgical Sciences
  • Associate Professor, Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgical Sciences
  • Associate Professor, Department of Surgical Sciences
    • Primary Address
    • Clinic
    • West Michigan Cancer Center
    • 200 North Park Street
    • Kalamazoo, MI, United States 49007

Biography

Biography

Gitonga Munene, MD, is board certified in general surgeon with West Michigan Cancer Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He currently serves as the Chair of the Department of Surgical Sciences, as well as the Surgical Oncology Division Chief at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and completed a surgical residency at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. He received fellowship training in surgical oncology from Tom Baker Cancer Center in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Dr. Munene’s clinical interests include surgery for gastrointestinal cancers—gastric, hepatobiliary, pancreatic, and metastatic colon—as well as thyroid cancer, melanoma and soft tissue sarcomas. He is also trained to provide treatment for peritoneal-based malignancies using hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) – which is new to the Southwest Michigan region.

Education

  • Fellowship 2011, Surgical Oncology, Tom Baker Cancer Center, University of Calgary
  • Residency 2009, General Surgery, Georgetown University Hospital, Georgetown University
  • Research Fellowship 2004, Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University
  • MD 2002, Northwestern University
  • MD 2002, Northwestern University
  • BS 1998, Premedicine, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
  • BS 1998, Premedicine, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Board/Specialty

  • American Board of Surgery (Surgery)

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