Postgraduate Training and Fellowship Appointments:
June 2005 General Surgery, Temple University Hospital , Philadelphia , ΡΑ
June 2007 Abdominal Organ Transplantation and Hepatobilίary Surgery, Unίversity of Cincinnati, Cίncinnati ΟΗ
Faculty Appointments:
Oct 2007 – Apr 2011 Assistant Professor of Surgery, Temple University
May 2011 – Apr 2017 Associate Professor, Clinical Surgery, Temple University
Apr 2012 – Apr 2017 Associate Professor, Clinical Surgery, Fοx Chase Cancer Center
May 2017 – Feb 2019 Professor of Clinical Surgery, Temple University
May 2017 – Feb2019 Professor, Clinical Surgery, Fox Chase Cancer Center
March 2019 – present Professor of Surgery, University of South Florida
Future Tampa General Medical
Hospital and /or Administrative Appointments:
Oct 2007 – Feb 2019 Director of the Liver Tumor Center, Temple Hospital
2011 – 2014 Surgical Director of Kidney Transplantation, Temple University Hospital
Dec 2016 – Feb 2019 Chief, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Temple University Hospital
Dec 2016 – Feb 2019 Director of Hepatic Surgery, Fox Chase Cancer Center
March 2019 – present Chief, Surgical Oncology , University of South Florida
Oct 2019 – present Surgical Director, Liver Tumor Program Tampa General Hospital
Speciality Certification:
Jun 2006 American Board of Surgery
Dec 2016 American Board of Surgery
Licensure:
2006 – present Pennsylvania
2019 – present Florida
Awards, Honors and Membership in Honorary Societies:
1998 Erasmus Scholarship, European Union
2009 Diamond Award, Temple University Hospital, Abdominal Organ Transplant Program
2011 Chief Resident Teaching Award
2014 – 2018 “Top Doctors”, Castle Conolly
2018 Philadelphia Magazine “Top Doctors”
2016 – 2019 National Comprehensive Cancer Network
2019-present Panel member for “Hepatobiliary Cancers”, Hepatobiliary Subcommittee, Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
Memberships in Professional and Scientific Societies and Other Professional Activities:
2005 – present Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Track
2005 – present Pancreas Club
2006 – present Americas-Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
2008 – present Fellow, American College of Surgeons
2010 – present Hellenic Medical Society of Philadelphia
2016 – present Society of Surgical Oncology
Editorial Positions:
Manuscript Reviewer , Journal of the American College of Surgeons, World journal of Surgery, BMC Cancer, Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research, Cancer Biology and Therapy, Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Academic and Institutional Committees:
2014 – 2019 Program Evaluation Committee, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Lectures by Invitation:
May, 2007 Multidisciplinary Management of Liver Metastasis from Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Philadelphia, Pa
Jan, 2009 Evolution of Hepatic Surgery. Crozer Chester Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pa
Nov, 2009 Surgical Therapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Mercy Philadelphia Hospital , Philadelphia, Pa
Dec, 2009 Biopsy of Resectable Liver Tumors: Please Don’t! Temple University Hospital
Sep, 2010 Surgical Anatomy of the Liver: Implications for resection of HCC. Hepatology Grand Rounds; Temple University Hospital
Dec, 2013 Resection of Primary and Metastatic Liver Tumors, New Jersey ACS Annual Meeting
May, 2014 Liver Resection 2014, Jeans Hospital Grand Rounds, Philadelphia, Pa
Apr, 2014 Neoadjuvant Therapy in Pancreatic Cancer, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa
Jan, 2017 Update on Hepatic Surgery Roxborough Memoήal Hospital, Philadelphia , Pa
May, 2019 Management of the patient with rectal cancer and synchronous liver metastasis. SSAΤ San Diego
Organizing Roles in Scientific Meetings:
June, 2018 Co-Moderator- Combined Clinical Session “Updates in Identification and Management of Liver Masses” DDW 2018
