- Chief of Colorectal Surgery, Main Line Health Systems
- Director of Minimally Invasive Colorectal Surgery and Rectal Cancer Management Fellowship, Lankenau Hospital
- Medical Director of Lankenau Hospital, Colorectal Center
- Professor of Lankenau Institute of Medical Researc

BOARD CERTIFICATION

Diplomate, American Board of General Surgery, 1996
Recertification, 2004

Diplomate, American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery, 1997

LICENSURE

Pennsylvania

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Chief, Section of Colorectal Surgery, Main Line Health System, The Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, 2001- Present

Director, Fellowship in Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Colorectal Surgery and Advanced Rectal Cancer Management, The Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, 2002 - Present

Professor, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR), The Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, July 1999 - Present

Member, Editorial Board, Surgical Endoscopy, Springer Publishers, New York, New York, 2003 - Present

Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 1996 - Present

President, Northeastern Society of Colorectal Surgeons, 2000 - Present

Secretary, International Network of Comprehensive Rectal Cancer Centers (INCRCC), The Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, 1997 - Present

President, Marks Colorectal Surgical Foundation, 1997 - Present

Co-Director, Marks Colorectal Surgical Associates, The Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, 1998 - Present

Committee Member, Technologies Committee, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS), 1999 - 2003

Committee Member, Regional Society Committee, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS), 2002 - Present

Laboratory Director, Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery Course, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS), 2005

Committee Member, Legislative Review Committee, Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), 1998 – Present

Committee Member, Standards of Practice Committee, Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), 1998 –2003

Committee Member, Program Committee, Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), 2002 - Present

Committee Member, Technologies Committee, Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), 2002 - Present

Poster Chair, Annual Meeting, Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), 2004

Director, Laparoscopic Colon Course, Annual Meeting, Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), 2005

Board Member, Colon Cancer Alliance Strategic Advisory Board, May 2000 - Present

Board Member, Philadelphia Chapter Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America, 2004 Member, Editorial

Board, Chinese Journal of Clinicians (Electronic Edition), December 2010 – December 2014

President, International Society of Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgeons, 2010 – 2011.

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS

The Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, 1998 - Present

Bryn Mawr Hospital, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1998 - Present

Paoli Hospital, Paoli, Pennsylvania, 1998 - Present

Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1996 – Present

COMMITTEES OF THE LANKENAU HOSPITAL

Oncologic Initiative – Strategic Planning Committee, 2003 – Present

Colorectal Cancer Working Group (Director), 2005 – Present

Operating Room Renovation Committee, 2003 – 2004

Committee on Cancer, 2004 – Present

Graduate Medical Education Committee, 2005 - Present

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Principal Investigator

1. Randomized Trial of Open Colectomies Versus Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Colectomies with Intromit. Sponsored by MedTech Limited, Dublin, Ireland, 1996 - 1999
2. Detection of Cancer Cells in Peripheral Blood of Patients with Colorectal Cancer (Immunicon Corporation), 1996 – 1999
3. Prospective Randomized Trial on the Treatment of Rectal Cancer in T1 G2-3 and T2 G1-3 N0 M0 Patients: Preoperative Radiochemotherapy and Local Excision Versus Anterior Resection or Abdominoperineal Resection, 1998 – 2002
4. A Study of Full Thickness Local Excision of Distal Rectal Cancer Utilizing High Dose Preoperative Chemoradiation. Funded by Sharpe-Strumia Research Foundation Grant, 2005
   

1. Evaluation of the Efficacy, the Safety and the Tolerability of Enterokinetic Given Subcutaneously in Patients Undergoing Elective Partial Colectomies. Funded by Janssen Pharmaceutica Research Foundation, 1997 to 1998.
2. Phase III Prospective Randomized Trial Comparing Laparoscopic-Assisted Colectomy Versus Open Colectomy for Colon Cancer, National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project/National Cancer Institute, 1998-2004.
3. A Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Worth of Preoperative Multimodality Therapy (5FU and RTX) in Patients with Operable Carcinoma of the Rectum.
4. COSTSG (Clinical Outcomes of Surgical Therapy Study Group) of the Laparoscopic Colectomy Trial: Status of Treatment of Colon Cancer, 2004

Database Supervisor

1. Rectal Cancer:
   Culshaw Research Unit of Marks Colorectal Surgical Foundation
2. Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery:
   Marks Colorectal Surgical Foundation
3. Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery:
   Marks Colorectal Surgical Foundation

MEDICAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

American College of Surgeons (Fellow), 1994 - Present

American Medical Association, 1996 - Present

American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (Fellow), 1995 - Present

Association for Academic Surgery, 1996 - 2000

Northeastern Society of Colorectal Surgeons, 1995 - Present

Pennsylvania Medical Society, 1996 to Present

Pennsylvania Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, 1996 – Present

Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, 2000 - Present

Philadelphia County Medical Society, 1996 to Present

Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, 1996 – Present

Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, 1994 - Present

Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 1996 – Present

Society of Surgical Oncology, 2006 – Present

ASCRS representative for Fellowship Council Accreditation Committee, October 2009 - 2010

HONORS AND AWARDS

Jefferson Award for Excellence in Research. Presented by the Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine, 1993.

Jefferson Laparoscopic Surgery Award. Presented by the Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine, 1994.

Bacon Foundation Award for Excellence in Research and Presentation. Presented by the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons for “Detection of Colorectal Cancer Cells in Peripheral Blood Using Ferrofluids,” 1999.

Lifetime Member, National Registry of Who’s Who, 1999.

Stuart H. Q. Quan Award for Excellence in Cancer Research. Presented by the Northeastern Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons for “Status of Laparoscopic Treatment of Colon Cancer: COSTSG Trial,” 2004.

Selected Physician of the Year by the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America, Philadelphia/Delaware Valley Chapter, November, 2006.

Nominated to participate on the Accreditation Committee of the Fellowship Council of ASCRS, 2010.

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS

One of two expert colorectal surgeons in the United States selected to present informational seminar on Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery (TEM) at Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Meeting of the Millennium, Atlanta, Georgia, March 30 and 31, 2000.

One of a four-person group representing the International Network of Comprehensive Rectal Cancer Centers (INCRCC) at a special meeting of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 6, 2000. (INCRCC provided the foundation for a new national rectal cancer trial.)