Dr. Alderman is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan. Originally from the Southeast, she obtained her undergraduate degree in sociology from Birmingham-Southern College and her medical degree from the University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Medicine. She came to the University of Michigan to complete an integrated plastic surgery residency. During her residency, she participated in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and obtained her Masters in Public Health. Her past research interests, which were funded by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, were in rheumatoid hand disease, specifically looking at the reasons for geographical variations in care. Currently, her research focus is on improving access and decreasing disparities in breast reconstruction for breast cancer. In particular, she is looking at barriers women have to receiving treatment and ways to improve the quality of reconstruction. She currently has a career development award from the Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Program and has an R21 grant from the NIH to perform a population-based study on breast cancer patients' access to reconstructive surgery.

Selected publications:
Alderman, A., Wei, Y., Birkmeyer, J.D.  Use of Breast Cancer Reconstruction following the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act. JAMA 2006, 295:387-388.

Alderman, AK, Kuhn, L, Lowery, JC, Wilkins, EG.  Does Patient Satisfaction with Breast Reconstruction Change Over Time? Two-Year Results of the Michigan Breast Reconstruction Outcomes Study. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2007, 204(1):7-12.

Alderman, AK, Hawley, S, Waljee, JF, Morrow, M, Katz, SJ.  Correlates of Referral Practices of General Surgeons to Plastic Surgeons for Mastectomy Reconstruction. Cancer, 2007, 109: 1715-1720.

Waljee, JF, Hu, E, Newman, L, Alderman, AK.  Predictors of Breast Asymmetry following Breast Conserving Surgery for Breast Cancer. J Am Col Surgeons, 2008, 206: 274-280.

Alderman, AK, Hawley, ST, Waljee, JA, Mujahid, M, Morrow, M, Katz, SJ.  Understanding the Impact of Breast Reconstruction on the Surgical Decision-Making Process for Breast Cancer. Cancer, 2008, 112: 489-494.