Chair, Department of Surgery

Department / Division:
Surgery / General Surgery

Address:
DUMC 3704
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-681-3445

Office Telephone:
919-681-3445

Fax Telephone:
919-681-2779

• MD, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine (Missouri), 1979

• General Surgery Intern, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1979-1980
• General Surgery Resident, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1980-1985
• General Surgery Chief Resident, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1985-1986

• Fellow, Nutrition and Metabolism, Harrison Department of Surgical Research, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1982-1984
• Research Fellow, Surgical Nutrition and Metabolism, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital (Massachusetts), 1986-1988

• MPH, Harvard School of Public Health (Massachusetts), 1989

Clinical Interests:
General and gastrointestinal surgery with a special interest in the management of patients with abdominal fistulae and other nutritional or metabolic diseases amenable to surgical therapy including inflammatory bowel disease and obesity