Before taking this position she was the first woman ever to be the Chief of Surgical Oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA.
[5] In February 2025, Dr. Ahuja was announced as the next Dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, a position she will assume on May 15, 2025.
[8] She has led over twenty national and international clinical trials on testing new therapies in gastrointestinal and breast cancers based on concepts identified in her laboratory.
[12][13] Her laboratory has also identified biomarkers for early detection of colorectal and pancreas cancer using non-invasive body fluids such as serum or plasma.
[18] She is co-author of a 2016 report for the Society of University Surgeons on barriers facing surgeon-scientists in basic science.