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Stanley W. Ashley, MD, FACS
Frank Sawyer Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery
Program Director, General Surgery Residency,
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Attending Surgeon, Gastrointestinal Cancer Center, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Chief, General Surgery
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Boston, Massachusetts
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 Stanley W. Ashley,
MD, FACS, Editorial Chair
Frank Sawyer Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery
Program Director, General Surgery Residency
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Attending Surgeon, Gastrointestinal Cancer Center
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Chief, General Surgery
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Boston, Massachusetts
Of note: Director, American Board of Surgery; Member of the Board of Trustees, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract; and Editorial board member, Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, and Current Problems in Surgery.
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| Special interests: General surgery, gastrointestinal surgery whose primary interests are diseases of the pancreas and inflammatory bowel disease, and pathophysiology of small bowel and pancreas. |
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| FOUNDING EDITOR |
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Douglas W. Wilmore, MD, FACS
Frank Sawyer Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts |
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 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.
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| 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. |
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| WEEKLY CURRICULUM EDITOR |
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Douglas Smink, MD
Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts |
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Douglas Smink,
MD, Weekly Curriculum Editor
Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Of note: Associate Program Director, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Medical Director, STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation.
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| Special interests: Minimally invasive surgery with an interest in foregut surgery; resident education; surgical simulation. |
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| EDITORS |
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William G. Cance, MD, FACS
Surgeon-In-Chief
Chair, Department of Surgical Oncology
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, New York
(Breast, Skin, and Soft Tissue) |
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William G. Cance,
MD, FACS, Editor
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 forJournal of Clinical Oncology.
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| 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. |
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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) |
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R. James Valentine,
MD, FACS, Editor
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.
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| Special interests: Vascular and endovascular surgery; natural history, epidemiology, and control of premature peripheral atherosclerosis; outcomes in vascular surgery; research in graduate medical education. |
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Gregory J. Jurkovich, MD, FACS
Professor, Department of Surgery
University of Washington School of Medicine
Chief of Trauma Services
Harborview Medical Center
Seattle, Washington
(Basic Surgical and Perioperative Considerations; Trauma and Thermal Injury) |
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Gregory J. Jurkovich,
MD, FACS, Editor
Professor of Surgery
University of Washington School of Medicine
Chief of Trauma Services
Harborview Medical Center
Seattle, Washington
Of note: Associate Editor, Journal of Trauma; past president, Washington State Chapter of American College of Surgeons, ATLS Subcommittee Member of the ACS COT since 1990; recipient of Meritorious Service Award, American College of Surgeons; and ATLS Meritorious Service Award, American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, March 2001.
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| Special interests: Injury prevention and outcome studies, hypothermia in trauma, alcohol and trauma, nutritional support of the critically ill and injured, and modulation of the inflammatory response. |
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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
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Scott J. Swanson,
MD, FACS, Editor
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 is co-authoring The Atlas of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery which will be available early in 2010. 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 will be directing the upcoming Second International Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Summit this October in Boston.
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| Special interests: Thoracic oncology including lung, esophageal, and pleural malignancies as well as malignancies of the mediastinum including thymomas. Dr. Swanson's research will compliment 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. |
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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 48109-0033
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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]) |
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John H. Pemberton,
MD, FACS, Editor
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.
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Herb Chen, MD
Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery
Professor of Surgery and Biomedical
Engineering
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
(Scientific Foundations) |
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Herb Chen,
MD, Editor
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.
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| 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. |
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Nathaniel J. Soper, MD, FACS
Loyal and Edith Davis Professor and Chair
Department of Surgery
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
(Gastrointestinal Tract and Abdomen [upper]; Care in Special Situations) |
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Nathaniel J. Soper,
MD, FACS, Editor
Loyal and Edith Davis Professor and Chair
Department of Surgery
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Of note: Former Director, Washington University Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery; Editor-in-Chief, Problems in General Surgery; editorial board member, Annals of Surgery, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, and Surgical Laparoscopy and Endoscopy; past president, SAGES; President, International Society of Digestive Surgery.
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| Special interests: Hepatobiliary pancreatic cancer and surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, and minimally invasive surgery. |
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