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Road and parking lot construction in Madison, Wis. may result in travel delays and route changes to UW Health clinic and hospital locations. Please plan accordingly.Read more
Gloria Xu, MD, PhD, is a UW Health dermatologist and Mohs surgeon and a professor in the Department of Dermatology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she serves as director of the Micrographic Surgery and Dermatologic Oncology Fellowship.
Dr. Xu’s special clinical interests include non-melanoma skin cancers, high-risk skin cancers, early-stage melanomas that grow in cosmetically sensitive locations, and the reconstruction of surgical wounds. She specializes in Mohs micrographic surgery, the gold standard for treating most skin cancers and conducts research on in many areas to improve skin cancer care. Dr. Xu’s philosophy toward patient care is to treat all patients as if they are members of her own family.
During personal time, Dr. Xu likes to play pickleball. She also enjoys watching her children compete on the tennis court and play classical music on the piano and violin.
Dr. Xu is actively involved in several research projects related to melanoma and other skin cancers. Along with her co-PI, Dr. Vladimir S. Spiegelman, she is working on a project on cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in non-transplant and transplant patients. It is hoped that this research will lead to pre-operative treatment to reduce the size of the tumor or post-operative treatment to enhance the cure rate. She is involved in a project with Dr. Mark Albertini to study immune responses to melanoma. She is also involved in a project led by Andrew Sheinis, UW Professor of Astronomy, to determine if an imaging technology developed for Astronomy can be used to detect early melanoma as well as to detect cancer margins prior to surgical removal.