Faculty in the Department of Surgery have been appointed to national and international organizations and have received numerous honors.
Noted Accomplishments
WILLIAM CHAPMAN, MD, chief of the Section of Transplant Surgery and the Eugene M. Bricker Professor of Surgery, received the 2017 Francis Moore Excellence in Mentorship in the Field of Transplantation Award from the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. The award acknowledges established surgeons for their stewardship of fellowship trainees and junior faculty.
MARY KLINGENSMITH, MD, vice chair of education and the Mary Culver Distinguished Professor of Surgery, became chair of the American Board of Surgery (ABS) board of directors in June 2017. The ABS certifies surgeons who have met defined educational, training and knowledge standards and oversees their continuous certification. As ABS chair, Klingensmith will lead efforts to revamp the certification process and will initiate a strategic planning process. Klingensmith is the third woman ever to chair the ABS since its founding in 1937, and she is the fourth Washington University School of Medicine surgeon to lead the organization.
JOHN MAZUSKI, MD, PHD, professor of surgery and co-director of the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Surgical Intensive Care Unit, concluded an active presidency of the Surgical Infection Society (SIS) in May 2017. He was part of a task force that wrote SIS Revised Guidelines on the Management of Intra-Abdominal Infection and was the SIS representative for the Surviving Sepsis Guidelines 2016, published jointly by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and European Society of Intensive Care.
BRYAN MEYERS, MD, MPH, chief of the Section of Thoracic Surgery and the Patrick and Joy Williamson Professor of Surgery, became chair of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS) in September 2017. The ABTS oversees certification of thoracic surgery training program graduates and ongoing maintenance of certification for certified thoracic surgeons. Meyers already has led efforts to make the recertification exam less punitive and more of a learning process.
National and International Organizations
Rebecca Aft, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Member, NCI Cancer Biomarkers Study Section
Jeffrey Blatnik, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Member, Board of Governors, Americas Hernia Society
Keith Brandt, MD
William G. Hamm Professor of Surgery
Executive director, American Board of Plastic Surgery
L. Michael Brunt, MD
Chief, Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery
Member, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons Board of Governors
Member, Board of Directors, SAGES Education and Research Foundation
Member, Board Fellowship Council
Secretary, Central Surgical Association
Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH
Neiss-Gain Professor of Surgery Chief, Division of Public Health Sciences
Advisor, National Cancer Moonshot Initiative
Advisor, National Cancer Institute Board of Scientific Advisors
Chair, National Academies of Sciences Workshop on Improving Health Research for Small Populations
Ralph Damiano Jr., MD
Evarts A. Graham Professor of Surgery Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Editor-in-chief, Innovations in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
Timothy Eberlein, MD
William K. Bixby Professor of Surgery Chair, Department of Surgery
Board of Regents, American College of Surgeons
Chair, National Comprehensive Cancer Network Board of Directors
Editor-in-chief, Journal of the American College of Surgeons
William Gillanders, MD
Professor of Surgery
Vice Chair for Research
Member, Programmed Death Ligand 1 Project Team, Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program
Chair, Department of Defense Breast Cancer Study Section
Member, National Cancer Institute Clinical Oncology Study Section
Mary Klingensmith, MD
Mary Culver Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Vice Chair for Education
Chair, American Board of Surgery
Erin Linnenbringer, PhD
Instructor of Surgery
Jane Engelberg Memorial Fellowship Advisory Group, National Society of Genetic Counselors
Peter Manning, MD
Professor of Surgery
Co-clinical lead, Surgical/ICU Learning Lab, National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative
Julie Margenthaler, MD
Professor of Surgery
Secretary–Treasurer, American Society of Breast Surgeons
John Mazuski, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
President, Surgical Infection Society, 2016-17
Bryan Meyers, MD, MPH
Patrick and Joy Williamson Professor of Surgery
Chief, Section of Thoracic Surgery
Chair, American Board of Thoracic Surgery
Marc Moon, MD
John M. Shoenberg Professor of Surgery Chief, Section of Cardiac Surgery
Secretary, American Association for Thoracic Surgery
Alec Patterson, MD
Joseph Bancroft Professor of Surgery
Editor-in-chief, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Luis Sanchez, MD
Gregorio A. Sicard Distinguished Professor of Vascular Surgery
President, Cirujanos Vasculares de Habla Hispana, 2015–2017
Alison Snyder-Warwick, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Secretary, Sir Charles Bell Society
Siobhan Sutcliffe, PhD, ScM, MHS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Project leader, Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain (MAPP) Research Network
Thomas Tung, MD
Professor of Surgery
Board of Directors, American Society of Plastic Surgeons
National and International Awards
Keith Brandt, MD
William G. Hamm Professor of Surgery
2016 American Society of Plastic Surgeons President’s Award
Donald Buck II, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Special commendation, “Review of Plastic Surgery,” 2016 Surgical Textbook Awards, British Medical Association
William Chapman, MD
Eugene M. Bricker Professor of Surgery Chief, Division of General Surgery and Section of Transplant Surgery
Francis Moore Excellence in Mentorship in the Field of Transplantation Award
Gayan De Silva, MD
Lab General Surgery Resident
Resident Research Grant Award, Vascular & Endovascular Surgery Society
Jose “Pepe” Diaz-Miron, MD
Chief General Surgery Resident, and
Paul Wise, MD
General Surgery Residency Program Director
Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) National Medical Honor Society
Sean English, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
2017 Wylie Scholar Award, Vascular Cures
Patrick Geraghty, MD
Professor of Surgery
First author, one of five most highly cited articles in Journal of Vascular Surgery, 2014-15
Linda Jin, MD
Lab General Surgery Resident
Resident Scholar Research Award, Society for University Surgeons Foundation
Susan Mackinnon, MD
Shoenberg Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
American Association of Plastic Surgeons Distinguished Fellow Award
Terence Myckatyn, MD
Professor of Surgery
Plastic Surgery Foundation Bernard G. Sarnat Excellence in Grant Writing Award
Tiffany Osborn, MD, MPH
Professor of Surgery and Emergency Medicine
First female full professor in combined field of emergency medicine (EM) and critical care (CC)
First female physician boarded in both EM and CC in United States
Kristen Seiler, MD
Lab General Surgery Resident
Resident Research Award, Association for Academic Surgery
Gregorio Sicard, MD
Emeritus Professor of Surgery
René Leriche Prize 2017, International Society of Surgery/Société Internationale de Chirurgie
Alison Snyder-Warwick, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
K08 Clinical Investigator Grant Award, National Institute for Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS), NIH
Plastic Surgery Foundation Bernard G. Sarnat Excellence in Grant Writing Award
Mohamed Zayed, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
K08 Clinical Investigator Grant Award, National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Research Fellowship Award, American Surgical Association Foundation
Washington University School of Medicine
Sam Bhayani, MD
Holekamp Family Endowed Chair in Urology
Chief medical officer, Faculty Practice Plan
Elisa Birnbaum, MD
Professor of Surgery
Chief Residents Faculty Mentorship Award (General Surgery Residency award)
Alex Bribriesco, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellow
Gregorio A. Sicard Fellow Teaching Award 2017 (General Surgery Residency award)
Pamela Choi, MD
General Surgery Chief Resident
Keith D. Amos Memorial Award (General Surgery Residency award)
Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH
Neiss-Gain Professor of SurgeryChief, Division of Public Health Sciences
Pancreas SPORE Biostatistics Core Director
Administrative Core Associate Director
Julie Colicchio, MSN, RN, NP-C
Nurse Practitioner
Advanced Care Practitioner Award (General Surgery Residency award)
Bettina Drake, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Surgery
Pancreas SPORE Administrative Core Co-Investigator
Eleanor Drew, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Clinical Teacher of the Year Award
Jason Gauthier, MD and
Jennifer Yu, MD
General Surgery Residents
Resident of the Year Award
Aimee James, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Surgery
Chair, Behavioral Science Subcommittee, Siteman Cancer Center Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee
Susan Mackinnon, MD
Shoenberg Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and
Alec Patterson, MD
Joseph Bancroft Professor of Surgery
25 Year Distinguished Service Award, Washington University School of Medicine
Laurie Punch, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Evarts Graham Teaching Award (General Surgery Residency award) Clinical Teacher of the Year Award
Dominic Sanford, MD
General Surgery Chief Resident
Eugene Bricker Teaching Award (General Surgery Residency award)
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and BJC HealthCare
Maria B. Majella Doyle, MD, MBA
Associate Professor of Surgery, and
Jason Wellen, MD, MBA
Associate Professor of Surgery
Directors, Abdominal Organ Transplantation Program, St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Bruce Hall, MD, PhD, MBA
Professor of Surgery
Chief quality officer, BJC HealthCare
Steven Hunt, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Surgical co-director, Center for Advanced Medicine – South County
John Kirby, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Medical director, Rehabilitation Services, Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Daniel Kreisel, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Surgical director, Lung Transplant Program, and Scientific director, Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Transplant Center
Kamlesh Patel, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Medical director of craniofacial surgery, St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Physician lead for rapid performance improvement, St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Jacqueline Saito, MD, MSCI
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Outcomes physician, Center for Clinical Excellence, BJC HealthCare
Matthew Silviera, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Co-leader of Colorectal Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Team, awarded Barnes-Jewish Hospital Team Award for Quality Improvement