Dr. Newman is a surgical oncologist, Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of the Breast Care Center for the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Newman holds a Masters Degree in Public Health from Harvard University, and she also obtained her undergraduate education at Harvard University with a major in chemistry. She attended medical school and completed her general surgery residency training at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn. Dr. Newman was recruited to remain at Downstate following completion of her postgraduate training, and served as an Assistant Professor of Surgery with this program for several years. She completed her fellowship in surgical oncology at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. She is board-certified in General Surgery and holds an American Board of Surgery Added Qualifications Certificate in Surgical Critical Care. Prior to assuming her current position at the University of Michigan, Dr. Newman served as Assistant Professor of Surgery at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas with a full-time commitment to research and clinical practice in the Surgical Breast Section, and was Associate Director for the Walt Breast Center at Wayne State University for two years.

Dr. Newman's primary research has focused on ethnicity-related variation in breast cancer risk and outcome, the evaluation and management of high-risk patients (including ductal lavage); broadened applications for induction chemotherapy, and special surgical techniques such as the skin-sparing mastectomy and lymphatic mapping/sentinel lymph node biopsy. Her basic science research has involved investigations of p27 and Her2/neu in breast cancer, and her extensive work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed medical journals. She maintains a very active community service record, and currently serves as Chief National Medical Advisor for the Sisters Network, Inc., a national African American breast cancer survivors support organization.

Active society memberships include: American College of Surgeons; Society of Surgical Oncology; the Inter-cultural Cancer Council, American Society of Clinical Oncology; American Society of Breast Disease, for which she is a Board Member; American Society of Breast Surgeons; and the American Association of Clinical Research. Dr. Newman also serves on the Executive Council and chairs the Special Populations Committee of the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group, and she serves as Board member for the Great Lakes Division of the American Cancer Society. She is a member of the Editorial Boards for Annals of Surgical Oncology and The Breast Journal.