GWIMS Team Members

Program Leadership

Kristen Limbach, MD

Tulane GWIMS Steering Committee Chair
Surgical Oncologist
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Kristen Limbach, MD is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Tulane University School of Medicine with a specialty in Complex General Surgical Oncology. She completed her undergraduate education at Dartmouth College and her medical degree at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society. She then completed her general surgery residency at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. From there, she went on to complete a Complex General Surgical Oncology fellowship at City of Hope National Medical Center near Los Angeles, California, where she received specialty training in complex cancer operations of the liver, pancreas, and gastrointestinal tract as well as advanced robotic surgical training. She has been on the faculty at the Tulane University School of Medicine since 2023, where she has been developing a clinical research program focusing on malignancies of the liver, pancreas, and gastrointestinal tract. She is currently the Chair of Tulane’s GWIMS Chapter.