DR. CHRISTOPHER MADDEN ’84 NAMED JESUIT DALLAS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS The recipient of the 2019 Jesuit Dallas Distinguished Alumnus Award, Dr. Christopher Madden ’84 has made a life seeking
historic discoveries in the pursuit of transforming patient care and eradicating neurological disease. His contributions to the science and medical communities have been both vast and significant, and have exemplified in an exceptional way a response to the challenge of all Jesuit Dallas graduates to live a life as God’s hands on earth.
Madden was announced as vice president and chief operations officer at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in July, 2019, after having spent the previous four years as the clinical director of the preeminent Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, which boasts the largest team of researchers and
physicians in North Texas and whose staff has included six Nobel Prize winners.
As COO at UT Southwestern, Madden provides oversight for the Medical Group’s clinical practice and administrative functions at all areas of service, including UT Southwestern Hospitals, Parkland Health & Hospital System, Children’s Health, the
Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System, and all UTSW clinically affiliated partners.
An invited speaker at conferences and symposiums throughout the world, Madden has led numerous educational lectures in
clinics and hospitals, presented at nearly two dozen national
scientific meetings, and served as an investigator on numerous studies involving traumatic brain injury. Highly regarded in the health community for his innovation, passion, and leadership, Madden’s work has been published in over 60 medical and science publications spanning two decades.
Hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth by U.S. News & World Report for the third consecutive year.
Madden, who received the Distinguished Physician Award at
Beginning his career in general surgery, and moving later to
Parkland in 2007, was presented with the Lawrence J. Mervis
Madden spent one year at the internationally-renowned
neurosurgery at Ohio State. He served as president of the Texas
in skull base surgery.
considerable acclaim for his contributions to neuroscience by D
neurological surgery, at The Ohio State University Hospital,
Faculty Teaching Award for his contributions in the division of
Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, England, on a fellowship
Association of Neurological Sciences in 2010, and has drawn
Madden’s affiliation with UT Southwestern Medical Center began
Magazine and Best Doctors, Inc.
in 2003 as an assistant professor of neurological surgery, after the
“I’m so grateful to have been given the opportunity to devote
medical director of the neurological ICU for the Parkland Health &
always learning. Our mission to improve patient care has led to
Dallas native returned home to become chief of neurosurgery and
my life to medicine. The field is so multi-faceted, and I’m
Hospital System.
tremendous advancements and saved countless lives. The work
Rising through the administrative ranks, Madden served as chief
has been both thrilling and humbling.”
medical officer at Parkland Hospital for three years beginning
Madden will be officially presented with the Distinguished
to govern a hospital that was recently named the No. 1 Best
Union Station.
in 2012, and now at UT Southwestern, finds himself helping
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Alumnus Award at the President’s Reception on May 31, 2020 at
