Anuradha R. Bhama, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Scott R. Steele, MD, MBA, FACS, FASCRS, FPSCRS (Hon)

Dr. Anuradha Bhama is a staff Colon and Rectal Surgeon at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland Ohio. Prior to this she was the Director of Robotic Colorectal Surgery, and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. Anuradha was born in Detroit, MI, and received her Bachelor of Science degree at University of Michigan, graduating with honors. She then received her Doctor of Medicine at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH, and went on to complete her General Surgery Residency training at University of Iowa, completed by 2014. Her Colon and Rectal Surgery Residency training was completed back in Ann Arbor at St. Joseph Mercy Health System and the University of Michigan, and she stayed on as teaching staff at the St. Josephs from 2015 to 2017. We were lucky enough to have her come to Cleveland, spending almost 2 years with us at the Cleveland Clinic doing Advanced Minimally Invasive and Reoperative Surgery training. From there she went to Rush University Medical Center, and did an excellent job, specialing in robotic surgery and complex reoperative disease. She recently came back to Cleveland Clinic in 2021.

Anuradha has had an extensive history in research and academic surgery. She was awarded a T32 Surgical Oncology Research Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center during her residency, and she has multiple projects within the realm of health outcomes. Even at this relatively early stage in her career, she has published multiple peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters, and has lectured around the United States on various topics of colorectal surgery. Despite this, she maintains a busy clinical schedule along with teaching medical students, residents, and fellows, and she is the Director of Colorectal Surgery Education and the Director for Complex Reoperative Colorectal Surgery at Rush. She is also actively involved with several national committees for the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and American Society for Enhanced Recovery, and YSC Mock Orals leadership. She serves as a reviewer for several national and international peer-reviewed journals including Annals of Surgery, Colorectal Disease and is an editorial board member for Diseases of the Colon and Rectum (DC&R).

When not working, she enjoys spending time with her family, her wonderful dog (a goldendoodle named Murphy) and reading, learning how to cook, and riding her Peloton. She even took some time during the pandemic to edit fiction books! On a personal note, it has been wonderful to watch her evolve from a trainee into an emerging thought-leader in colorectal surgery and fantastic technical surgeon in such a rapid time. On behalf of the readers and staff of Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery, I want to sincerely thank Dr. Bhama for serving as the Guest Editor and for providing us with an incredible issue on an important topic of anastomotic leaks.

Publication History

Article published online:
01 October 2021