Lisa McElroy, MD, MS is an abdominal transplant surgeon and health services researcher at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina. She graduated from the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine as part of the Leadership in Medicine for the Underserved Program. She completed her general surgery residency training at the Medical College of Wisconsin and her clinical fellowship in abdominal transplant surgery at the University of Michigan. 

Dr. McElroy is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Population Health Sciences at Duke University. In 2022 she was selected as the Inaugural Onyekwere E. Akwari Endowed Assistant Professor in Surgery.

Dr. McElroy received her research training via a T32 postdoctoral research fellowship at Northwestern University, where she also earned a Master of Science in Health Services and Outcomes Research through the Institute for Public Health and Medicine. Her research examines the influence of organizational characteristics on clinical outcomes of high cost, high acuity patients. Her current research projects, which aim to improve equity in access to transplantation by reducing bias in processes of care, are funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Surgical Association Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. She has authored more than 80 peer reviewed scientific papers.

Dr. McElroy serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Transplantation, American Journal of Surgery and Clinical Transplantation. She is the vice chair of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons grants committee and chair of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons publications committee.