Surgery Education - Surgery Mentors Program
Surgery Administration
Ronald Stewart, MDProfessor and Chair
Chief of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
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Injury prevention, Trauma and critical care
Emergency Medicine
Carmelito Arkangel, MD
Assistant Professor
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Resuscitation of surgical patients in the ED / pre-hospital arena
Charles R. Bauer, MD
Professor
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Emergency Preparedness, Chemical, Biological, Radiation, Nuclear Explosives, Building collapse
Miguel Fernandez, MD
Associate Professor
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Snakebites, Poisonings, Trauma related to poisoning, Poisoning treatment
General and Laparoendoscopic Surgery
Kenneth Sirinek, MD, PhD
Professor and Division Head
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Physiologic response to laparoscopic surgery, Long term survival following portacaval
shunt, Physiology and medical/surgical treatment of delayed gastric emptying
Arthur McFee, MD
Professor Emeritus
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Wayne Schwesinger, MD
Professor of Surgery; Director and Chief, General Surgery B and Surgical Endoscopy
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Hepatobiliary Disease, Diverticular Disease, Medical Errors
Kent R. Van Sickle, MD
Associate Professor; Director, Johnson Center for Surgical Innovation
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Surgical education, training, simulation and innovative technologies
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Howard T. Wang, MD
Assistant Professor and Chief, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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Neovascularization of bony construct using adipose tissue-derived stem cells
Surgical Oncology
Ismael Jatoi, MD
Professor and Chief
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Breast cancer; benign breast disease
Thelma Hurd, MD
Associate Professor
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Breast Cancer Surgery, Outcomes Research, Health Disparities
Alfredo Santillan, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Prognostic and predictive factors of cancer outcomes, cancer epidemiology, cancer biomarkers
Lt. Col David Smith, MD
Chief of Surgical Oncology, Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center
Surgical Oncology, Blood substitutes, Cancer
Pediatric Surgery
Barry R. Cofer, MD
Assistant Professor
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Clinical pediatric surgery research; Pediatric surgical oncology, Congenital thoracic anomalies and noncardiac thoracic surgery, Neonatal congenital anomalies and their reconstruction, Pediatric minimally invasive surgery
Surgery Research
Mary “Pat” Moyer, PhD
Professor-Research
Oncology, Translational research
Joel B. Baseman, PhD
Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Immunology (cross-appointed)
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Molecular pathogenesis of microbial-mediated human disease
Ken M. Hargreaves, DDS, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Endodontics
Professor, Departments of Pharmacology and Physiology (cross-appointed)
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Pharmacology of pain and inflammation
Peter Hornsby, PhD
Professor, Department of Physiology (cross-appointed)
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Improving use of human stem cells: Transplantation in immunodeficient mouse models
Joel E. Michalek, PhD
Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (cross-appointed)
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Analysis and reporting of clinical and epidemiological studies
Brad H. Pollock, MPH, PhD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (cross-appointed)
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Analysis and reporting of clinical and epidemiological studies
Transplant Surgery
Glenn Halff, MD
Professor of Transplant Surgery and Director of the UT Transplant Center
Interim Dean, UT School of Medicine
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Robert Esterl, MD
Professor
Interim Associate Dean for Student Affairs
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Transplant immunization protocol
Greg Abrahamian, MD
Associate Professor
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Ken Washburn, MD
Associate Professor
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Established and new pharmacologic agents
Trauma & Emergency Surgery
Stephen Cohn, MD
Professor, Trauma
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Surgical infection, Models of resuscitation
Deborah L. Mueller, MD
Associate Professor, Trauma & Emergency Surgery
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Blood transfusion, ventilator associated pneumonia, and end-of-life care
Martin G. Schwacha, PhD
Professor, Trauma & Emergency Surgery Research
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Immune system response to traumatic injury, with particular emphasis on the response to burn injury
Vascular Surgery
Boulos Toursarkissian, MD
Professor and Chief
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Diabetes, PVD inclu. access surgery
Benjamin J. Pearce, MD
Assistant Professor
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Application of stent graft technology to acute aortic dissection; improving
outcomes of lower extremity revascularization in the endovascular era; the future of
surgical education; advancing current
curriculum within the constraints of work hour restrictions.
Maureen K. Sheehan, MD
Assistant Professor
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endovascular treatment of peripheral arterial disease, critical limb ischemia, carotid disease, and venous disease
Paula Shireman, MD
Professor of Vascular Surgery and Vice Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
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Inflammatory-mediated mechanisms of angiogenesis and skeletal muscle regeneration
Matthew J. Sideman, MD
Associate Professor
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Clincial outcomes, endovascular devices, and surgical education
