Chief Medical Officer
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Frank Sawyer Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
(Competency-Based Surgical Care; Head and Neck)
Douglas W. Wilmore,
MD, FACS, Founding Editorial Chair
Frank Sawyer Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Of note:
Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science. Editorial board member, Annals of Surgery and Journal of the American College of Surgeons, and Advisor to ACP Medicine. Recipient of American College of Nutrition teaching award for education, research, and clinical care.
Special interests:
Metabolic response to injury and sepsis, nutritional support of critically ill patients, growth factors and patient rehabilitation, and enhancing recovery of surgical patients.
WEEKLY CURRICULUM EDITOR
Douglas Smink, MD
Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Surgeon-in-Chief
Chair, Department of Surgical Oncology
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, New York
Of note:
Member, American College of Surgeons, Society of University Surgeons, Association for Academic Surgery, and Past President of Society of Surgical Oncology; Member of Editorial Board for Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Special interests:
Surgical oncology, endocrine surgery, and biology of focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and its role in protecting cancer cells from programmed death (apoptosis). Pursuing clinical trials with novel drugs that target the FAK pathway and other survival mechanisms specific to specific cancer cells.
Financial Disclosure: The editor has received speaker fees from Harvard University and is a stockholder and the Chief Scientific Officer for CureFAKtor Pharmaceuticals.
R. James Valentine, MD, FACS
Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery,
Alvin Baldwin, Jr. Chair in Surgery
Director, Surgery Residency Program
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
(Vascular System)
Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery,
Alvin Baldwin, Jr. Chair in Surgery
Director, Surgery Residency Program
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
Of note:
Director, American Board of Surgery; Director, Vascular Surgery Board of the American Board of Surgery; Past President, Association of Program Directors in Surgery; Editorial board member, American Surgeon, Vascular, and Journal of Surgical Education, and recipient of ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award in 2009.
Special interests:
Vascular and endovascular surgery; natural history, epidemiology, and control of premature peripheral atherosclerosis; outcomes in vascular surgery; research in graduate medical education.
Financial Disclosure: The editor has no commercial relationship with manufacturers of products or providers of services discussed in this publication.
Gregory J. Jurkovich, MD, FACS
Chief of Surgery
Denver Health Medical Center
Bruce M. Rockwell Distinguished Chair of Trauma
Professor and Vice-Chairman
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Denver, Colorado
(Basic Surgical and Perioperative Considerations; Trauma and Thermal Injury)
Chief of Surgery
Denver Health Medical Center Bruce M. Rockwell Distinguished Chair of Trauma
Professor and Vice-Chairman
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Denver, Colorado
Of note:
Director, American Board of Surgery. Associate Editor, Journal of the American College of Surgeons and Journal of Trauma. Past president, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Western Surgical Association. American College of Surgeons: Past Vice-Chairman and Chief of Regions, Committee on Trauma. Recipient of Meritorious Service Award, American College of Surgeons; and ATLS Meritorious Service Award, American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, March 2001.
Special interests:
Trauma systems; injury prevention and trauma outcome studies; hypothermia in trauma; addiction and psychological disorders in trauma patients; nutritional support of the critically ill and injured; modulation of the inflammatory response.
Financial Disclosure: The editor has no commercial relationship with manufacturers of products or providers of services discussed in this publication.
Scott J. Swanson, MD, FACS
Director, Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Chief Surgical Officer
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Lecturer in Surgery
Harvard School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
(Thorax)
Director, Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital Chief Surgical Officer
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Lecturer in Surgery
Harvard School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
Of note:
Former Chief, Thoracic Surgery, Director, Cardiothoracic Residency Program, and Director of Thoracic Oncology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; chaired and published the results of the first cooperative cancer group protocol that examined the use of minimally invasive lobectomy for lung cancer (CALGB 39802, JCO Nov 2007) and co-authored The Atlas of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Swanson is also a member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), the Cardiothoracic Surgery Network (CSN), the General Thoracic Surgical Club (GTSC), and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). He directed the Second International Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Summit in Boston.
Special interests:
Thoracic oncology including lung, esophageal, and pleural malignancies as well as malignancies of the mediastinum including thymomas. Dr. Swanson's research will complement the existing extensive divisional strength focused on the biology of thoracic malignancy. Also, he is currently co-investigating the role of micro-RNA in esophageal cancer.
Financial Disclosure: The editor has no commercial relationship with manufacturers of products or providers of services discussed in this publication.
Lena M. Napolitano, MD, FACS, FCCP, FCCM
Professor of Surgery
Division Chief, Acute Care Surgery
Associate Chair of Surgery
Department of Surgery
Director, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, MI
(Critical Care)
Professor of Surgery
Division Chief, Acute Care Surgery Associate Chair of Surgery Department of Surgery Director, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, MI
(Critical Care)
Of note:
Chair of the Surgical Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and Chair of the Committee on Perioperative Care for the American College of Surgeons.
Special interests:
Translational and outcomes research in trauma and surgical critical care, with focus on multiple organ failure, systemic inflammatory response, healthcare-associated infections, anemia & blood transfusion.
Financial Disclosure: The editor has no commercial relationship with manufacturers of products or providers of services discussed in this publication.
John H. Pemberton, MD, FACS
Consultant, Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery
Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic
Professor of Surgery, College of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
(Gastrointestinal Tract and Abdomen [lower])
Consultant, Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic Professor of Surgery, College of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
Of note:
Editor, Shackelford's Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Vol. 4, The Colon; co-editor, Atlas of Colorectal Surgery; and editorial board member, British Journal of Surgery and Journal of American College of Surgeons.
Special interests:
Colon and rectal cancer, inflammatory bowel diseases, motility disorders.
Financial Disclosure: The editor has no commercial relationship with manufacturers of products or providers of services discussed in this publication.
Herb Chen, MD
Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery
Professor of Surgery and Biomedical
Engineering
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
(Scientific Foundations; Organ Systems: Anatomy and Physiology)
Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery
Professor of Surgery and Biomedical
Engineering
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
Of note:
Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery and Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin; Chief of Endocrine Surgery and Leader of the Endocrine-Neuroendocrine Cancer Disease Group at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center; Associate/Section Editor for Annals of Surgery, Annals of Surgical Oncology, The Oncologist, and Journal of Surgical Research; Editorial Board Member of Annals of Surgery, American Journal of Translational Research,Clinical Medicine: Endocrinology and Diabetes, and World Journal of Surgery; Past-President of Association for Academic Surgery, current Secretary-Treasurer for Surgical Biology Club II, and current Treasurer for the Society of Clinical Surgery.
Special interests:
Endocrine and neuroendocrine disease with a focus on minimally invasive endocrine surgery; the role of Notch, raf-1, and GSK3 in neuroendocrine tumor proliferation and hormone production.
Financial Disclosure: The editor has no commercial relationship with manufacturers of products or providers of services discussed in this publication.
Taylor S. Riall, MD, PhD
Consultant, Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery
John Sealy Distinguished Chair in Clinical Research
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX
(Gastrointestinal Tract and Abdomen [upper]; Care in Special Situations)
John Sealy Distinguished Chair in Clinical Research
Associate Professor
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX
Of note:
Director, Center of Comparative Effectiveness and Cancer Outcomes; Editorial Board Member of Annals of Surgery, Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Journal of Surgical Research.
Special interests:
Pancreaticobiliary surgery, pancreatic and periampullary cancer, gastrointestinal surgery, health services/comparative effectiveness research.
Financial Disclosure: The editor has no commercial relationship with manufacturers of products or providers of services discussed in this publication.
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