Our Leadership, Our Faculty

The Department of Surgery at MetroHealth has a long-standing commitment to excellence in surgical education. The majority of our faculty are double boarded. Our current dedicated, academic staff include many well-known national leaders who currently hold, or have held, positions of President or President-Elect of the following organizations: 

• American Association of Endocrine Surgeons
• Association for Surgical Education
• Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
• Central Surgical Association
• American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (OH/KY)
• Ohio Chapter of the American College of Surgeons
• Midwest Surgical Association
• Surgical Infection Society
• Cleveland Surgical Society

Additionally, members of our faculty have served as: 

• Director of American Board of Surgery (ABS)
• Chair of the ABS Surgical Oncology Board
• Vice Chair of the American College of Surgeons Advisory Council for General Surgery
• Co-Chair American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Guidelines for definitive Management of Thyroid Diseases in adults
• Associate Examiners for American Board of Surgery
• Editorial board members for multiple journals

Our faculty have received numerous teaching awards, including several Kaiser-Permanente teaching awards from CWRU, Surgery residency teaching awards, and the outstanding teacher award from the Association for Surgical Education.