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