New Editorial Board Members


New Editorial Board Members

T imothy R. Billiar,MD, is a summacum laude grad-
uate of Doane College,
C r e t e , N e b . D r B i l l i a r
received his MD degree
from the University of
Chicago Pritzker School
of Medicine, Chicago, Ill.
From 1983 to 1992, Dr
Billiar was a resident at
the University of Minne-
sota and a research fellow
at the University of Min-
nesota and the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa;
he completed his residency at the University of Pitts-
burgh. He is the Watson Professor of Surgery at the
University of Pittsburgh.

E ddie L. Hoover,MD, received anAB degree from the
University of North Caro-
lina, Chapel Hill, in 1965
and an MD degree from
Duke University, Durham,
NC, in 1969. He began his
s u r g i c a l p o s t g r a d u a t e
t r a i n i n g i n s u r g e r y a t
Duke University and com-
pleted his training at Cor-
nell University Medical
Center; he also completed
a thoracic surgery residency at Cornell University Medi-
cal Center. Dr Hoover is certified by the American
Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic
Surgery. He is professor and chair of the Department of
Surgery, State University of New York, Buffalo.

J ohn P. Roberts, MD, received a BS degree (biol-ogy) from Stanford University, Stanford, Calif, in1976 and an MD degree from the University of Cali-
fornia, SanDiego, School of Medicine in 1980.

His postdoctoral training
took place at the Univer-
sity of Washington, Se-
attle, during which time he
was a research fellow at
Cornell University. From
1986 to 1987, he was a
transplant fellow at the
University of Minnesota. Dr
Roberts is a professor of
surgery at the University of
California, San Francisco.

J oel J. Roslyn, MD,received a BS de-gree in 1972 from
U n i o n C o l l e g e ,

Schenectady, NY, and an
MD degree in 1976 from
Albany Medical College,
Albany, NY. He is a mem-
ber of Phi Beta Kappa and
the Alpha Omega Alpha
Honor Medical Society. Dr
Roslyn’s postgraduate train-
ing at the University of
California, Los Angeles,
was combined with research and clinical fellowships in
gastroenterology at the same university. He is professor
and chair of the Department of Surgery, Allegheny
University of the Health Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.

G race S. Rozycki,MD, received BSd e g r e e s ( c u m
laude, biology and chemis-
try) from the College Miseri-
cordia, Dallas, Pa, an MS de-
gree (biochemistry) from
the University of Scranton,
Scranton, Pa, and an MD de-
gree from Jefferson Medical
College of Thomas Jefferson
University, Philadelphia, Pa.
Her postgraduate training
in surgery (1980-1981) took

Timothy R. Billiar, MD

Eddie L. Hoover, MD

John P. Roberts, MD

Joel J. Roslyn, MD

Grace S. Rozycki, MD

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place at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Col-
lege of Virginia School of Medicine, Richmond, and at
the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1981-1986), fol-
lowed by a fellowship at the Washington Hospital Cen-
ter, Washington, DC, from 1986 to 1988. Dr Rozycki is
an associate professor of surgery at Emory University
School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga.

G. Thomas ShiresIII, MD, re-ceived his MD
degree from Duke Univer-
sity in 1978 and was certi-
fied by the American Board
of Surgery in 1985. From
1978 to 1984, his postdoc-
toral training at Emory Uni-
versity, Atlanta, Ga, in-
cluded a Harvey Cushing
Fellowship in Surgical Re-
search at Cornell Univer-
sity (1980-1982). He is an
associate professor of surgery at the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center and chairman of the
Surgical Services at the Presbyterian Health Care
System, Dallas.

New International Advisory Board Members

L eigh W. Delbridger e c e i v e d a B S c(Med) degree (Hons
I) from the University of
Sydney, Sydney, Australia,
in 1972, an MBBS degree
(Hons I) from the Univer-
sity of Sydney in 1975, and
an MD degree from the Uni-
versity of Sydney in 1984.
His surgical training at the
Royal North Shore Hospi-
tal, Sydney, included a re-
search fellowship at The
Middlesex Hospital, London, England. He is chairman and
clinical unit head at the Royal North Shore Hospital.

S. T. Fan, MB, BS(Hong Kong),M S ( H o n g
K o n g ) , F R C S ( G l a s g ) ,
FACS, FCSHK, HFKAM
(Surgery), FRCS(Edin), ad
hominem, received his MB
and BS degrees in Hong
Kong, The People’s Repub-
lic of China, in 1976. His
surgical training took place
at Queen Mary Hospital,
Hong Kong, and The Mid-
dlesex Hospital, London,
England. Dr Fan is a pro-
fessor in the Department of
Surgery, University of Hong Kong, and an international
authority in biliary, pancreatic, and liver surgery.

G. Thomas Shires III, MD

Leigh W. Delbridge, MD

S. T. Fan, MB, BS (Hong Kong), MS
(Hong Kong), FRCS(Glasg), FACS,
FCSHK, HFKAM (Surgery),
FRCS(Edin)

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