Member News July/August 2025

Fields Chairs URMC Department of Surgery

Ryan C. Fields, MD, FACS, has taken over as the Seymour I. Schwartz Professor in Surgery and chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) in New York, surgeon-in-chief of Strong Memorial Hospital, and director of translational research of the Wilmot Cancer Institute, both in Rochester. A surgical oncologist, Dr. Fields previously was the Kim and Tim Eberlein Distinguished Professor of Surgery and chief of surgical oncology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, leader of the Solid Tumor Therapeutics Program at the Alvin J. Siteman Comprehensive Cancer Center in St. Louis, and director of resident research in the Department of Surgery of Washington University in St. Louis. 

Tzeng Steps into Chief Role at UPMC

Edith Tzeng, MD, FACS, is chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Heart and Vascular Institute in Pennsylvania. She also will continue to serve as professor of surgery in the Division of Vascular Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and chief of vascular surgery. Dr. Tzeng, a vascular surgeon-scientist, joined the faculty at Pitt and UPMC in 2000 and has served as chief of vascular surgery at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Pittsburgh since 2003. She also has been the program director of the Vascular Surgery Research T32 Program funded through the National Institutes of Health for the past 15 years.

Gamblin Is Inaugural Utah Chief of Surgical Oncology 

T. Clark Gamblin, MD, MS, MBA, FACS, is the inaugural chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology in the Department of Surgery at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at The University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He also serves as an investigator at Huntsman Cancer Institute. A hepatopancreatobiliary surgeon with expertise in the surgical management of complex liver, pancreas, and biliary cancers, Dr. Gamblin previously was chief of surgical oncology and vice chair of clinical operations for the Department of Surgery at the Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.   

Tadlock Receives Heroes of Military Medicine Award

Matthew D. Tadlock, MD, FACS, a captain in the US Navy, received the 2025 Heroes of Military Medicine Award for his contributions to military medicine. The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine presented the award in May. Dr. Tadlock is an active-duty trauma/critical care surgeon in the US Navy and the Department of Surgery of the Naval Medical Center San Diego in California. He also is an associate professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, and current President of the Excelsior Surgical Society.

Jackson Leads Bariatric Surgery at Michigan Medicine

Hope T. Jackson, MD, FACS, has taken over as director of the Bariatric Surgery Program in the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Previously, she was an assistant professor of surgery and associate surgery clerkship director at The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Washington, DC. 

Lee Heads Up Plastic Surgery Research Council 

Justine C. Lee, MD, PhD, FACS, is chair of the Plastic Surgery Research Council—an academic society dedicated to advancing innovation and scientific discovery in plastic and reconstructive surgery. A craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgeon, Dr. Lee is the Bernard G. Sarnat Endowed Chair in Craniofacial Biology in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine.

Ehlers Takes Over Michigan Minimally Invasive Surgery

Annie Ehlers, MD, MPH, FACS, is chief of the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Ehlers joined the Department of Surgery and Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery in 2019 as an assistant professor of surgery. Her clinical practice is based at the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Medical Center where she serves as associate chief of surgery for education and medical student surgery clerkship facilitator. 

Tong Is Promoted to Chief of General Thoracic Surgery

Betty C. Tong, MD, MHS, MS, FACS, has been appointed chief of the Section of General Thoracic Surgery within the Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She also will continue to serve as an assistant professor of surgery and director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Program. Dr. Tong completed medical school and her thoracic surgery fellowship at Duke University before joining the faculty in 2008.

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