We are pleased to announce that earlier today The Ohio State University Board of Trustees approved the appointment of nationally recognized surgeon and liver cancer expert Timothy Pawlik, MD, MPH, PhD, to Department of Surgery chair, effective Aug. 1. Dr. Pawlik will also be The Urban Meyer III and Shelley Meyer Chair for Cancer Research.
The author of more than 600 published articles and more than 50 book chapters, Dr. Pawlik has edited five surgical textbooks. He received an honorary fellowship in the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, as well as honorary fellowship status in the Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology. Dr. Pawlik is an associate editor for Annals of Surgical Oncology and the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, and is deputy editor for JAMA Surgery. He has served on the executive councils of several premier national surgical associations, and is the immediate past-president of the Association for Academic Surgery. Dr. Pawlik is a member the Society of Surgical Oncology, Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, Society of Clinical Surgery, The Halsted Society and American Surgical Association.
Dr. Pawlik’s main clinical interests include alimentary tract surgery, with a special interest in hepatic, pancreatic and biliary diseases. He is a member of the Johns Hopkins’ Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence, in recognition of consummate clinical excellence in his field. In addition, Dr. Pawlik’s excellent patient care put him on the 2015 lists of Newsweek Magazine Top Doctors in Cancer, and he been annually named to Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors for Cancer.