Kristi M. Pado, MD is Director of Patient Education and a surgical breast specialist at the Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center, A Project of Women's Guild, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Pado has particular interest in minimally invasive diagnostic and treatment methods for all types of breast diseases. She has initiated multiple breast-related research projects at Cedars-Sinai.

Dr. Pado has published articles and book chapters on topics in her field in Advanced Therapy of Breast Disease, Surgical Clerkship Manual, Archives of Surgery, the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery and the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. A frequent presenter, she has spoken before multiple Los Angeles-area hospitals, national and international breast cancer conferences, community audiences, the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Southwestern Surgical Congress, Pacific Northwest Vascular Society, British Esophageal Group, Seattle Surgical Society, Virginia Mason Medical Center and the American Society for Microbiology.

Prior to joining the staff at Cedars-Sinai, she was a research assistant at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Baxter Diagnostics. An outstanding investigator, Dr. Pado patented a surgical device used to increase operating room efficiency, assisted in the development of a method for the
rapid detection of cytomegalovirus and helped design an in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility test.

A board-certified surgeon, Dr. Pado holds additional certification in advanced cardiac life support and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. She is a member of the American College of Surgeons, the ACS Oncology Group, the American Society of Breast Surgeons, the American Medical Association and the American Medical Women's Association.

Dr. Pado graduated with distinction from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California earning a bachelor's degree in psychology before receiving her medical degree from the University of California Davis School of Medicine. She completed an internship and residency in general surgery at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. Dr. Pado also completed a surgical fellowship in breast oncology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She is a former Oxford University Scholar.