As part of the Department of Surgery’s Diversity Lecture series, Col. Jeff Hutchinson, MD, FAAP will present “The Military is a Great Social Experiment.”
About Col. Jeff Hutchinson:
- Colonel in the US Army and an Adolescent Medicine specialist
- Uniformed Services University (USU) Interim Chair of Pediatrics
- USU School of Medicine Chief Diversity Officer
- Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the United States Military Academy
- Medical degree from the University of California San Francisco
As part of the Salvatierra Lecture Series, Timothy Pruett, MD, will present “The Canary in the Coal Mine: Transplantation in the Era of Transparency.” About Dr. Pruett:
- Professor of Surgery and Internal Medicine, Chief of Transplantation and the John S. Najarian Surgical Chair in Clinical Transplantation at University of Minnesota
- Chair of the ASTS/AST joint committee for Biovigilance
- Medical degree from the Baylor College of Medicine
- General Surgery and Transplantation training at the University of Minnesota
- Internal Medicine residency at the University of Michigan
Caprice Greenberg, MD, will present her lecture “Surgical Coaching for Performance Improvement.”
About Dr. Greenberg:
- Professor at University of Wisconsin
- Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Health Services Research
- Vice Chair of Research, University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery
- Director, Wisconsin Surgical Outcomes Research Program
As part of the Chandler Lecture Series, Steven Rothenberg, MD, will present “A quarter century of developing thoracoscopic surgery in infants and children.”
About Dr. Rothenberg:
- Chief of Pediatric Surgery at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s in Denver, Colorado
- Professor of Surgery at Columbia University in New York City
- “SAGES Pioneer in Surgical Endoscopy” for 2015
Guest Lecturer Edward H. Livingston, MD, FACS, AGAF will present “The Act of Writing” at the Dept. of Surgery Grand Rounds.
About Dr. Livingston:
- Contributing Editor for JAMA
- Deputy Editor, Clinical Review and Education, for JAMAand The JAMA Network
- Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) School of Medicine and at Northwestern University.
- Previously served as Professor and Chairman of GI and Endocrine Surgery at UTSW School of Medicine and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas Arlington.
Dr. Nancy Baxter, Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto, will present “Diversity in the house of surgery.”
About Dr. Baxter:
- General Surgeon and Chief of the General Surgery Department at St. Michael’s Hospital
- Scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital
- Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto
- Associate Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHMPE)
Dr. Dennis Lund, CMO of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, will present. Read his bio.