Contributors

Cameron M. Akbari, MD, MBA, FACS

Senior Attending Physician, Vascular Surgery

Director, Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory

Medstar Washington Hospital Center

Washington, DC

Marco E. Allaix, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor in General Surgery

Department of Surgical Sciences

University of Torino

Torino, Italy

Mohammed Al-Mahroos, MD

Fellow, Minimally Invasive Surgery

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Waddah B. Al-Refaie, MD, FACS

John S. Dillon Professor and Chief of Surgical Oncology

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

Washington, DC

Marshall S. Baker, MD, MBA

Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery

Loyola University Chicago

Stritch School of Medicine

Maywood, Illinois

Christopher Baron, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Interventional Radiology

Vanderbilt University Hospital

Nashville, Tennessee

Barbara Lee Bass, MD

Bookout Distinguished Presidential Endowed Chair

Chair, Department of Surgery

Houston Methodist Hospital

Professor of Surgery

Weill Cornell Medical College and Houston Methodist Institute for Academic Medicine

Full Member

Houston Methodist Research Institute

Houston, Texas

Andrew Bates, MD

Department of Surgery

Stony Brook University Hospital

Stony Brook, New York

Kevin E. Behrns, MD

Vice President Medical Affairs

Dean, School of Medicine

St. Louis University

St. Louis, Missouri

Robert D. Bennett, MD

Resident in General Surgery

Department of Surgery

University of South Florida

Tampa, Florida

Marc G. H. Besselink, MD, MSc, PhD

Professor of Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Surgery

Department of Surgery, Cancer Center Amsterdam

Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam

Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Camille Blackledge, MD

Fellow, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Department of Surgery

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

Birmingham, Alabama

Jeffrey A. Blatnik, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Department of Surgery, Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery

Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis, Missouri

Ronald Bleday, MD

Chief

Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery

Associate Chair for Quality and Safety

Department of Surgery

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Associate Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Liliana G. Bordeianou, MD, MPH

Chair, Colorectal Surgery Center

Massachusetts General Hospital

Associate Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Stefan A. W. Bouwense, MD, PhD

Fellow, Gastrointestinal Surgery

Radboud University Medical Center

Department of Surgery

Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Joshua A. Boys, MD

Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellow

General Thoracic Surgery Section

University of Virginia Department of Surgery

Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

University of Virginia School of Medicine

Charlottesville, Virginia

Elizabeth Breen, MD

Colon and Rectal Surgeon

Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

Program Director

Colon and Rectal Surgery Residency

Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

Burlington, Massachusetts

L. D. Britt, MD, MPH, DSc (Hon), FACS, FCCM, FRCSEng(Hon), FRCSEd(Hon), FWACS(Hon), FRCSI(Hon), FSC(SA)(Hon), FRCS(Glasg)(Hon)

Henry Ford Professor and Edward J. Brickhouse Chairman

Eastern Virginia Medical School

Norfolk, Virginia

David C. Brooks, MD, FACS

Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery

Senior Surgeon

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Associate Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

L. Michael Brunt, MD

Section Chief, Minimally Invasive Surgery

Department of Surgery

Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis, Missouri

Raphael Bueno, MD

Fredric G Levin Distinguished Chair in Thoracic Surgery and Lung Cancer Research

Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery

Co-Director, The Lung Center and the Lung Research Center

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Jessica Burgess, MD, FACS

Assistant Professor

Department of Surgery

Eastern Virginia Medical School

Norfolk, Virginia

Freddy Caldera, DO, MS

Assistant Professor

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Madison, Wisconsin

Michael J. Cavnar, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Surgery

Section of Surgical Oncology

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

Nikolaos A. Chatzizacharias, MD, PhD

Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Kathleen K. Christians, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Thomas E. Clancy, MD

Division of Surgical Oncology

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Jordan M. Cloyd, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Division of Surgical Oncology

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Columbus, Ohio

Dorin Colibaseanu, MD

Vice Chair of Education

Department of Surgery

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Mayo Clinic

Jacksonville, Florida

Zara Cooper, MD, MSc, FACS

Associate Professor

Department of Surgery

Associate Chair of Faculty Development

Department of Trauma Burn and Surgical Critical Care

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD, FACS

John Rhea Barton Professor and Chair

Department of Surgery

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Tom R. DeMeester, MD

The Jeffrey P. Smith Professor of General and Thoracic Surgery

Chairman

Department of Surgery, Emeritus

Keck School of Medicine

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California

Daniel T. Dempsey, MD, MBA

Professor of Surgery

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Assistant Director of Perioperative Services

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mary E. Dillhoff, MD, MS

Assisatnt Professor of Surgery

Department of Surgery

The Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio

Justin B. Dimick, MD, MPH

George D. Zuidema Professor of Surgery

Chief of the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery

Director, Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy

Associate Chair for Strategy and Finance

Department of Surgery, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Kristofell R. Dumon, MD, FACS

Associate Professor of Surgery

Department of Surgery

Hospital Penn Medicine

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Brian J. Dunkin, MD, FACS

Professor of Surgery

Weill Cornell Medical College

John F., Jr. and Carolyn Bookout Chair in Surgical Innovation & Technology

Medical Director

Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation, and Education (MITIE)

Houston Methodist Hospital

Houston, Texas

Barish Edil, MD, FACS

Associate Professor of Surgery

Chief, Section of Surgical Oncology

University of Colorado at Denver

Denver, Colorado

Timothy Eglinton, MBChB, MMedSc, FRACS, FACS, FCSSANZ

Associate Professor

Department of Surgery

University of Otago

Christchurch, New Zealand

Fritz C. Eilber, MD

Professor of Surgery

Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology

Director UCLA—JCCC Sarcoma Program

UCLA Division of Surgical Oncology

Los Angeles, California

E. Christopher Ellison, MD

Academy Professor

Robert M. Zollinger Professor Emeritus

Department of Surgery

The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Columbus, Ohio

Douglas B. Evans, MD

Professor and Chair

Department of Surgery

Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Douglas G. Farmer, MD, FACS

Professor of Surgery

Surgical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplantation

Surgical Director, Intestinal Transplantation

Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Los Angeles, California

Liane S. Feldman, MD

Steinberg-Bernstein Chair of Minimally Invasive Surgery and Innovation

McGill University Health Centre

Director, Division of General Surgery

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Alessandro Fichera, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Professor and Division Chief Gastrointestinal Surgery

Department of Surgery

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Robert J. Fitzgibbons, Jr., MD, FACS

Harry E. Stuckenhoff Professor and Chairman

Department of Surgery

Creighton University School of Medicine

Co-editor in Chief, Hernia

CHI Health Creighton University-Bergan Mercy

Omaha, Nebraska

James W. Fleshman, Jr., MD

Sparkman Endowed Chair in Surgery

Chairman, Department of Surgery

Baylor University Medical Center

Professor of Surgery

Texas A&M Health Science Center

Dallas, Texas

Eugene F. Foley, MD, FACS

Susan Behren's MD, Professor and Chair of Surgical Education

Vice Chair for Education

Chief, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery

Department of Surgery

University of Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

Yuman Fong, MD, Sc.D. (Hon)

Chairman

Department of Surgery

City of Hope Medical Center

Duarte, California

Gerald M. Fried, MD

Edward W. Archibald Professor and Chair

Department of Surgery

McGill University

Surgeon-in-Chief, McGill University Health Centre

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Frank A. Frizelle, MBChB, MMedSci, FRACS, FACS, FASCRS, FRCSI (Hon), FNZMA

Professor Head of University Department of Surgery

Department of Surgery

Christchurch Hospital

University of Otago

Christchurch, New Zealand

Csaba Gajdos, MD, FACS

Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery

Department of Surgery

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Science

Buffalo, New York

Sunil K. Geevarghese, MD, MSCI, FACS

Medical Director, Acute Operations and Transplant Perioperative Services

Program Director, Vanderbilt ASTS Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery Fellowship

Associate Professor of Surgery, Radiology and Radiological Sciences

Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, Tennessee

Kristina L. Go, MD

Chief Resident

University of Florida

Department of Surgery

Gainesville, Florida

Jason S. Gold, MD

Chief of Surgical Oncology, VA Boston Healthcare System

Associate Professor of SurgeryHarvard Medical School

Brigham and Women's Hospital

West Roxbury, Massachusetts

Joel Goldberg, MD, MPH, FACS

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Colon and Rectal Surgery

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Jacob A. Greenberg, MD, EdM

Associate Professor of Surgery

General Surgery Residency Program Director

University of Wisconsin

Department of Surgery

Madison, Wisconsin

Douglas W. Hanto, MD, PhD

Deputy Chief of Surgery

VA St. Louis Health Care System

St. Louis, Missouri

Lewis Thomas Professor of Surgery Emeritus

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

David Harris, MD

Clinical Fellow in Surgery (EXT)

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Department of Surgery

Boston, Massachusetts

Rian M. Hasson Charles, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Department of Surgery, Section of Thoracic Surgery

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Lebanon, New Hampshire

Alexander T. Hawkins, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, Tennessee

Mary T. Hawn, MD, MPH

Professor, Chief of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Department of Surgery

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

Birmingham, Alabama

O. Joe Hines, MD, FACS

Professor and Chief

Division of General Surgery

Robert and Kelly Day Chair in General Surgery

Vice Chair for Administration

Department of Surgery

David Geffen School of Medicine

University of California at Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Ronald B. Hirschl, MD, MS

Professor of Pediatric Surgery

Department of Surgery

Mott Children's Hospital

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Richard A. Hodin, MD

Chief of Academic Affairs

Department of Surgery

Massachusetts General Hospital

Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Nicole J. Look Hong, MD, MSc, FRCSC

Division of Surgical Oncology

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Assistant Professor of Surgery

University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

Young K. Hong, MD

Surgical Oncology Fellow

Division of Surgical Oncology

University of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

John G. Hunter, MD, FACS

Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, OHSU Health System

Mackenzie Professor, OHSU School of Medicine

Oregon Health & Science University

Portland, Oregon

Roger D. Hurst, MD

Professor of Surgery

University of Chicago

Pritzker School of Medicine

Chicago, Illinois

Andrew M. Ibrahim, MD, MSc

Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar

Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation, University of Michigan

House Staff, General Surgery University Hospitals Case Medical Center

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Jennifer L. Irani, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Associate Surgeon, General and Gastrointestinal Surgery

Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Boston, Massachusetts

Janeen R. Jordan, MD

Critical Care (Intensivist)

General Surgery

Orange Park Surgical Associates

Orange Park, Florida

Edward Kelly, MD, FACS

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Department of Trauma Burn and Surgical Critical Care

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Gregory D. Kennedy, MD, PhD

John H. Blue Chair in General Surgery and Professor of Surgery

Director, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

Birmingham, Alabama

Teresa S. Kim, MD

Assistant Professor

Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington

Cindy Kin, MD, MS, FACS, FASCRS

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Stanford University Department of Surgery

Stanford, California

Jonathan C. King, MD

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Department of Surgery

Los Angeles, California

Santa Monica General Surgery

Santa Monica, California

Simon Law, MBBChir (Cantab), MA, MS (HK), PhD (HK), FRCSEd, FCSHK, FHKAM, FACS

Cheung Kung-Hai Endowed Chair

Chair Professor in Esophageal and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

Department of Surgery

The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong, the People's Republic of China

Christina W. Lee, MD

Resident Physician

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Department of Surgery

Madison, Wisconsin

Yu Liang, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of General Surgery

UConn Health

Farmington, Connecticut

Keith D. Lillemoe, MD

Surgeon-in-Chief

Chief, Department of Surgery

Massachusetts General Hospital

W. Gerald Austen Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Anne Y. Lin, MD, MSHS

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Department of Surgery

Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery

University of California Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Natalie Liu, MD

General Surgery Resident

University of Wisconsin

Department of Surgery

Madison, Wisconsin

Benjamin P.T. Loveday, MBChB, PhD, FRACS

Senior Lecturer in Surgery

University of Auckland

Consultant HBP Surgeon

Auckland City Hospital

Auckland, New Zealand

Arin L. Madenci, MD, MPH

Resident, General Surgery

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Najjia N. Mahmoud, MD

Emilie and Roland T. DeHellebranth Professor of Surgery

Chief, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery

University of Pennsylvania Health System

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD, FACS

Dallas B. Phemister Professor of Surgery and Chairman

Department of Surgery

The University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Martin McCarter, MD, FACS

Professor of Surgery, Section of Surgical Oncology

University of Colorado at Denver

Denver, Colorado

David W. McFadden, MD, MBA

Murray-Heilig Professor and Chairman

Department of Surgery

The University of Connecticut

Farmington, Connecticut

Fabrizio Michelassi, MD

Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor

Chairman, Department of Surgery

Weill Cornell Medicine

Surgeon-in-Chief

New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center

New York, New York

Fernando Mier, MD

Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery

Department of Surgery and the Digestive Health Center

Oregon Health and Science University

Portland, Oregon

Jon B. Morris, MD

The Ernest F. Rosato—William Maul Measey Professor in Surgical Education

Vice Chair for Education, Department of Surgery Hospital

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Neil J. Mortensen, MA, MBChB, MD, FRCS Eng, Hon FRCPS Glas, Hon FRCS Edin, Hon FRCSI

Professor of Colorectal Surgery

Nuffield Department of Surgery

University of Oxford

Hon Consultant Surgeon

Department of Colorectal Surgery, Churchill Hospital

Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford

England, United Kingdom

Amani Munshi, MD, FRCSC, FACS

Clinical Assistant Professor

Department of Surgery

University Hospitals, St. John Medical Center

Westlake, Ohio

David L. Nahrwold, MD

Emeritus Professor of Surgery

Department of Surgery

Feinberg School of Medicine

Northwestern University

Chicago, Illlinois

Heidi Nelson, MD

Fred C. Andersen Professor of Surgery

Chair, Department of Surgery

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota

Sanjay Pandanaboyana, MBBS, MPhil, FRCS

Consultant HBP Surgeon

Auckland City Hospital

Auckland, New Zealand

Alessandro Paniccia, MD

Chief Resident in General Surgery

Department of Surgery

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Denver, Colorado

Christina M. Papageorge, MD, MS

General Surgery Resident

University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics

Department of Surgery

Madison, Wisconsin

Theodore N. Pappas, MD, FACS

Distinguished Professor of Surgical Innovation

Chief of Advanced Oncologic and Gastrointestinal Surgery

Duke University School of Medicine

Durham, North Carolina

Purvi Y. Parikh, MD, FACS

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgeon

Director, Center of Excellence for HPB Care

The Permanente Medical Group, Inc.

Kaiser–Sacramento Medical Center

Department of Surgery

Sacramento, California

Guillaume Passot, MD, PhD

Department of Surgical Oncology

CHU Lyon Sud, Pierre Bénite, France

Professor of Surgery

Lyon 1 University

Lyon, France

Sameer H. Patel, MD, FACS

Department of Surgical Oncology

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas

Marco G. Patti, MD, FACS

Professor of Medicine and Surgery

Co-Director, Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing

University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Timothy M. Pawlik, MD, MPH, MTS, PhD, FACS, FRACS (Hon)

Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery

The Urban Meyer III and Shelley Meyer Chair for Cancer Research

Professor of Surgery, Oncology, and Health Services Management and Policy

Surgeon in Chief

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Columbus, Ohio

William H. Peranteau, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

The Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic, and Fetal Surgery

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Alexander Perez, MD, FACS

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Chief of Pancreatic Surgery

Duke University School of Medicine

Durham, North Carolina

Silvana Perretta, MD

Professor of Surgery

Department of Digestive and Endocrine Surgery

NHC University Hospital

Director of Education IRCAD-IHU

Strasbourg, France

Henry A. Pitt, MD

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jeffrey L. Ponsky, MD, MBA, FACS

Lynda and Marlin Younker Chair in Developmental Endoscopy

Professor of Surgery

Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

Michael J. Pucci, MD, FACS

Associate Professor of Surgery

Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University

Co-Director, Advanced Gastrointestinal Surgery Fellowship

Associate Director, Undergraduate Education

Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Chandrajit P. Raut, MD, MSc, FACS

Associate Surgeon

Division of Surgical Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Surgery Director, Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Associate Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Michael M. Reader, MD, FACS

General Surgery

Houston Methodist Surgical Associates

Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery

Weill Cornell Medical College

Houston, Texas

Diego C. Reino, MD

Cleveland Clinic Florida

Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery

Department of Solid Organ Transplantation

Weston, Florida

Joao B. Rezende Neto, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS

Associate Professor

Department of Surgery

University of Toronto

Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Division of General Surgery

St. Michael's Hospital

Surgeon Investigator—Keenan Research Center for Biomedical Sciences

Toronto, Ontario

Canada

John J. Ricotta, MD, FACS

Clinical Professor of Surgery

George Washington University

Washington, DC

Patricia L. Roberts, MD

Chair, Division of Surgery

Senior Staff Surgeon, Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery

Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

Burlington, Massachusetts

Professor of Surgery

Tufts University School of Medicine

Boston, Massachusetts

Sean M. Ronnekleiv-Kelly

University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics

Department of Surgery

Clinical Science Center

Madison, Wisconsin

Robert E. Roses, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Surgery

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ori D. Rotstein, MD

Professor and Associate Chair of Surgery

University of Toronto

Surgeon-in-Chief, St. Michael's Hospital

Toronto, Ontario

Canada

Daniel Ruan, MD

General Surgeon

Department of Surgery

Tampa General Hospital

Tampa, Florida

Tara A. Russell, MD, MPH, PhD

Resident Physician

UCLA Department of General Surgery

Los Angeles, California

George A. Sarosi, Jr., MD

Professor and Program Director

Vice Chair of Education

Department of Surgery

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida

Mitsuru Sasako, MD, PhD

Special Consultant Surgeon

Department of Surgery

Yodogawa Christian Hospital

Osaka

Professor Emeritus

Hyogo College of Medicine

Nishinomiya, Japan

Bruce D. Schirmer, MD

Stephen H. Watts Professor of Surgery

University of Virginia Health System

Department of Surgery

Charlottesville, Virginia

Richard D. Schulick, MD, MBA, FACS

Aragón/Gonzalez-Gíustí Endowed Chair

Chair, Department of Surgery

Director, Cancer Center

Professor of Surgery

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Aurora, Colorado

Anthony J. Senagore, MD, MS, MBA

Professor, Vice Chair for Research

Department of Surgery

Western Michigan University - Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Parth K. Shah, MBBS

Fellow in Complex General Surgical Oncology

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center

University of South Florida

Tampa, Florida

Brian D. Shames, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Division Chief General Surgery

Program Director General Surgery Residency

University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Farmington, Connecticut

Eric G. Sheu, MD, D.Phil

Associate Surgeon

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Scott A. Shikora, MD, FACS

Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Director, Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery

Department of Surgery

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Hisashi Shinohara, MD, PhD

Chairman, Upper GI Division

Department of Surgery

Hyogo College of Medicine

Nishinomiya, Japan

Jory S. Simpson, MD, MEd, FRCSC

Assistant Professor

Department of Surgery

University of Toronto

Division of General Surgery

St. Michael's Hospital

Toronto, Canada

Douglas S. Smink, MD, MPH

Program Director

General Surgery Residency

Associate Chair of Surgery

Department of Surgery

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Associate Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Kevin C. Soares, MD

Resident in General Surgery

Department of Surgery

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

Nathaniel J. Soper, MD, FACS

Loyal and Edith Professor and Chairman of Surgery

Surgeon-in-Chief, Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Northwestern Medicine

Chicago, Illinois

Ian S. Soriano, MD, FACS, FASMBS, FPALES

Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Hospital

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Visiting Assistant Professor of Surgery

University of the Philippines College of Medicine

Philippine General Hospital

Manila, Philippines

David I. Soybel MD, FACS

David L. Nahrwold Professor of Surgery

Division Chief, General Surgery Specialties & Surgical Oncology

Vice-Chairman (Research)

Department of Surgery

Penn State Hershey Medical Center

Hershey, Pennsylvania

Shelby J. Stewart, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Thoracic surgery

University of Maryland

Baltimore, Maryland

Steven M. Strasberg, MD

Pruett Professor of Surgery

Section of HPB Surgery

Washington University in Saint Louis

Siteman Cancer Center and Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Saint Louis, Missouri

David M. Straughan, MD

Resident in General Surgery

Department of Surgery

University of South Florida

Morsani College of Medicine

Tampa, Florida

Cabrini L. Sutherland, MD, MPH

Acute Care Surgery Service

Trauma Trust

Tacoma, Washington

Lee L. Swanström, MD

Professor of Surgery

The Oregon Clinic

Portland, Oregon

Mark A. Talamini, MD, MBA

Professor and Chair

Department of Surgery

School of Medicine, SUNY Stony Brook

Chief of Surgical Services

Stony Brook Medicine

Stony Brook, New York

Nabil Tariq, MD, FACS

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Department of Surgery

Houston Methodist Hospital

Houston, Texas

Ali Tavakkoli, MD

Interim Chief, Division of General and GI Surgery

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Co-Director, Center for Weight Management and Metabolic Surgery

Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Ezra N. Teitelbaum, MD, MEd

Assistant Professor of Surgery and Medical Education

Northwestern University

Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, Illinois

Tina Thomas, MD

Clinical Lecturer, Pediatric Surgery

Research Fellow, Newman Lab

Department of Pediatric Surgery

C. S. Mott Children's Hospital

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Daniel King Hung TONG, MBBS, MS, PhD, FRACS, FACS, FCSHK, FHKAM

Honorary Clinical Associate Professor

The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Jennifer F. Tseng, MD, MPH

Utley Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery

Boston University

Surgeon-in-Chief, Boston Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts

Jeff Van Epps, MD

Fellow

Colon and Rectal Surgery

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Hjalmar C. van Santvoort, MD, PhD

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgeon

Associate professor

Regional Academic Cancer Center Utrecht

St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein and University Medical Center

Utrecht, the Netherlands

Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, MD, FACS

Professor of Surgery

Chief, Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Section

Department of Surgical Oncology

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas

Vic Velanovich, MD

Professor of Surgery

Department of Surgery

University of South Florida

Tampa, Florida

Sharon M. Weber, MD, FACS

Tim and MaryAnn McKenzie Chair

of Surgical Oncology

Director for Surgical Oncology

UW Carbone Cancer Center

Professor of Surgery

Department of Surgery

University of Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

Jon O. Wee, MD

Section Chief, Esophageal Surgery

Director of Robotics in Thoracic Surgery

Co-Director of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery

Associate Program Director

Division of Thoracic Surgery

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Martin R. Weiser, MD

Stuart H. Quan Chair in Colorectal Surgery

Vice Chair, Faculty Affairs

Department of Surgery

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Professor of Surgery

Weill Cornell Medical College

New York, New York

Mark Lane Welton, MD, MHCM

Chief Medical Officer

Fairview Health Services

Professor of Surgery

Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Edward E. Whang, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Department of Surgery

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

John A. Windsor, MD, MBChB, FRACS, FACS, FRSNZ

Professor of Surgery

University of Auckland

Consultant HBP/Upper GI Surgeon

Auckland City Hospital

Auckland, New Zealand

Joyce Wong, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Lenox Hill Hospital

New York, New York

Yanghee Woo, MD, FACS

Associate Clinical Professor

Vice Chair, International Surgery

Director, GI Minimally Invasive Therapies

Division of Surgical Oncology

Department of Surgery

City of Hope National Medical Center

Duarte, California

Mu Xu, MD, PhD

Resident in Surgery

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Los Angeles, California

Charles J. Yeo, MD, FACS

Samuel D. Gross Professor and Chairman

Department of Surgery

Jefferson Pancreas, Biliary and Related Cancer Center

Department of Surgery

Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Thomas Jefferson University

Senior Vice President and Enterprise Chair, Surgery

Jefferson Health

Co-Director

Jefferson Pancreas, Biliary, and Related Cancer Center

Co-Editor in Chief, Emeritus

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Official Publication of the SSAT

Editor in Chief, Journal of Pancreatic Cancer

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Heather Yeo, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Weill Cornell Medical College

Assistant Professor of Public Health

Weill Cornell Medical College

New York, New York

Trevor M. Yeung, MA, MBBChir, D.Phil, FRCS

Specialty Registrar

Department of Colorectal Surgery

Oxford University Hospitals

Oxford, United Kingdom

Herbert J. Zeh, III, MD

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Department of Surgery

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Tiffany Zens, MD

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Department of Surgery

Madison, Wisconsin

Michael J. Zinner, MD, FACS

CEO and Executive Medical Director

Miami Cancer Institute

Miami, Florida

Moseley Professor of Surgery, Emeritus

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

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