During my first full year as the William Stewart Halsted Professor of Surgery and surgeon-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, I have had the opportunity to witness the extraordinary surgical skills of Johns Hopkins surgeons and outstanding performance of our teams. Our programs in trauma and critical care, aortic surgery, transplantation, colorectal surgery and hepatobiliary pancreas surgery provide the highest quality of surgical care available.

But our surgeons don’t do it alone. These extraordinary programs are the byproducts of surgeons working side by side with medical physicians, oncologists, anesthesiologists, nurses, technicians and administrators.

You can read more about one of these surgeons, John Cameron, in the article “Innovative Surgeon, Relentless Teacher and Legendary Leader.” This past September, we celebrated Cameron’s 50-plus years of dedicated service to the Department of Surgery and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Cameron personifies the Halsted tradition as an innovative cancer surgeon who has trained dozens of excellent surgeons. Many of his most accomplished trainees are now his partners and associates at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, including Nita Ahuja, Jin He, Matthew Weiss and Christopher Wolfgang.

Such a commitment to building an outstanding multidisciplinary team of professionals led by a visionary surgeon is what distinguishes Johns Hopkins care. In the near future, we will continue to formalize the development of our interdisciplinary teams in transplantation, cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal disorders and surgical oncology—where physicians, surgeons, nurses, advanced practice professionals and others work side by side. I look forward to witnessing this next generation of patient care, research and education.