Chair, Department of Surgery
David C. Sabiston Jr. Professor and Chair

Department / Division:
Surgery / General Surgery

Address:
DUMC 3704
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-684-4064

Office Telephone:
919-681-3445

Fax Telephone:
919-681-2779

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

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

• Nutrition and Metabolism, Harrison Department of Surgical Research, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1982-1984
• Research, 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, management of patients with abdominal fistulae and other nutritional or metabolic diseases amenable to surgical therapy, including inflammatory bowel disease and obesity