Samantha Hendren, MD, MPH is Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan. Dr. Hendren is a colorectal surgeon, who trained at Yale (MD), Rochester (MPH), Penn (General Surgery), and Toronto (Colorectal Surgery). Her clinical practice includes traditional and minimally-invasive surgery for colon, rectal and other bowel cancers, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and anorectal disorders. Dr. Hendren's research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute and the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Research Foundation. Her research focuses on quality of care for colorectal cancer. She also participates in research on short and long-term surgical complications, and racial and socioeconomic disparities in American cancer care.
As a part of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons' Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee, Dr. Hendren led the team that wrote the Society's 2015 Ostomy Surgery Guidelines (Hendren S, Hammond K, Glasgow SC, Perry WB, Buie WD, Steele SR, Rafferty J. Clinical practice guidelines for ostomy surgery. Dis Colon Rectum. 2015 Apr;58(4):375-87.)