Surgery Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Stanley W. Ashley, MD, FACS
Chief Medical Officer
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Frank Sawyer Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
(Basic Surgical and Perioperative Considerations, Competency-Based Surgical Care, Head and Neck, Transplantation)
Of note: Chair, American Board of Surgery; Secretary, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.
Special interests: General surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, diseases of the pancreas and inflammatory bowel disease, and pathophysiology of small bowel and pancreas.
Financial Disclosure: The editor has no commercial relationship with manufacturers of products or providers of services discussed in this publication.
Founding Editor:
Douglas W. Wilmore, MD, FACS
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:
Jacob A. Greenberg, MD, EdM
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Associate General Surgery Program Director
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
Of note: Medical Director, UW Health Comprehensive Hernia Center; Member, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, Association for Academic Surgery, and American College of Surgeons.
Special interests: Minimally invasive techniques for surgery of the abdominal wall, stomach, and esophagus, as well as bariatric surgery.
Financial Disclosure: The editor has no commercial relationship with manufacturers of products or providers of services discussed in this publication.
Associate Editors:
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)
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.
Herbert Chen, MD, FACS
Chairman, Division of General Surgery
Layton F. Rikkers, MD, Chair in Surgical Leadership
Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering
Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Surgery
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, Wisconsin
(Scientific Foundations, Organ Systems: Anatomy and Physiology)
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.
Philip A. Linden, MD
Chief, Division of Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery
University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Associate Professor, Surgery
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, Ohio
(Thorax)
Of note: Inaugural David P. Miller and Frances A. Cosentino Master Clinician in Thoracic & Esophageal Surgery at UH Case Medical Center.
Special interests: Ablative therapies, lung cancer in the emphysema patient, minimally invasive lung and esophageal surgery, thoracic cancer.
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])
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.
Taylor S. Riall, MD, PhD, FACS
John Sealy Distinguished Chair in Clinical Research
Professor, Department of Surgery
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas
(Gastrointestinal Tract and Abdomen [upper], Care in Special Situations)
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.
David A. Spain, MD, FACS
Carol and Ned Spieker Professor and Chief of Acute Care Surgery
Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program Director
Associate Division Chief, General Surgery
Department of Surgery
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California
(Critical Care, Trauma and Thermal Injury)
Of note: Founding member of the Surgical Critical Care Program Directors Society, American College of Surgeons Program Committee, American College of Surgeons Board of Governors, and Editorial Board of Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.
Special interests: Shock, sepsis, multiple organ failure, and ICU pneumonia, as well as organizational characteristics of well-functioning trauma centers and systems.
Financial Disclosure: The editor has no commercial relationship with manufacturers of products or providers of services discussed in this publication.
R. James Valentine, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Director, Vascular Fellowship Program
Division of Vascular Surgery
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee
(Vascular System)
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.
