Speaker Topics: Surgery

Jonathan Edward Efron, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Chief of Ravitch Service
The Mark M Ravitch, MD Endowed Professorship in Gastrointestinal Surgery

A colon and rectal surgeon whose clinical focus includes colon and rectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, fecal incontinence and anorectal disorders, Dr. Efron joined Johns Hopkins Medicine from the Mayo Clinic.

He is an expert in minimally invasive and robotic procedures and colostomy-sparing procedures, such as ileal pouch and anal anastomosis.

Dr. Efron graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, then completed his residency in general surgery at the North Shore University Hospital.  He served two fellowships in colon and rectal surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Florida.  He has a particular interest in the management of recurrent rectal cancer.
 

 Lisa Jacobs, MD

Julie Lange, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Associate Professor of Dermatology
Associate Professor of Oncology
Co-Director of the Melanoma Program

Dr. Lange joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins in 1994 and subsequently earned a Sc.M. in Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  She focuses on the care of melanoma and breast cancer patients.  Dr. Lange was one of the original members of the Johns Hopkins melanoma group when it was first formed in 1995 and now serves as a clinical co-director of the Melanoma Program.  Dr. Lange introduced the sentinel node technique to Hopkins for both melanoma and breast cancer in the 1990s and has extensive experience with this technique.  She has particular interest in melanoma at extremes of age, and the factors associated with variance in melanoma care.  She has published the largest study of melanoma in children, adolescents and young adults.  She recognizes that melanoma in the older patient is a growing epidemic and has investigated the socioeconomic, demographic and healthcare factors that influence the treatment of melanoma in older persons.  She is a member of the melanoma panel of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, a group that annually evaluates and revises national treatment guidelines for melanoma.
 

 

Martin A. Makary, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management

Dr. Makary is a surgeon specializing in laparoscopic pancreas surgery and is the surgical director of the Johns Hopkins Pancreatitis Center and Islet Transplant Program.  Dr. Makary has published over 100 scientific articles on quality and safety in healthcare.  He worked with the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) to develop the WHO checklist and has become an international advocate for accountability in medicine.  He is a frequent guest medical commentator for CNN and FoxNews and speaks regularly on healthcare reform.  His newest book "Unaccountable", is about how common-sense solutions can fix healthcare.

Jason Prescott, MD

Ariel Niroomand Rad, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Dr. Rad is a plastic surgeon specializing in microvascular breast reconstruction and aesthetic surgery.  His focus for breast cancer patients is providing state-of-the-art free flap procedures (DIEP flap, SGAP flap, TUG flap, and SIEA flap).  he also performs cosmetic surgery.  He participates in surgical missions dedicated to helping patients with cleft lip and palate, burn scars, and birth deformities in underserved countries.

Dr. Rad has published in major peer-reviewed scientific journals and presented at national meetings.  At the 2009 American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery meeting, he received a national award for his work on perforator flaps.

Dr. Rad graduated magna cum laude in mechanical engineering at Princeton where he was captain of the NCAA Division I swim team.  White at Duke, he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholar and studied immunology at the National Institute of Health (NIH).  He continued this research for three years in London, England where he became highly accomplished in professional Ballroom and Latin dance.  His dance skills were featured in the hit ABC television documentary Hopkins.

Matthew Weiss, M.D.
 

Christopher Wolfgang, M.D.