Surgical Review Corporation's Research Division
was established to initiate, facilitate, conduct, report and fund research
related to the surgical care of the obese. These efforts are in direct support
of SRC's goals of promoting the delivery of bariatric surgical care with the
highest levels of efficacy, efficiency and safety. Additional bariatric surgeons, as well as scientists from other specialties are in the process of being added to the RAC.
 |
Gail D. Hughes, Dr.P.H., M.P.H.
Vice President, Research
Chair, Research Advisory Committee
Surgical Review Corporation
Raleigh, North Carolina
Dr. Hughes has over 20 years of experience in conducting research in various sectors — academic, government, private industry and non-profit. She provided research leadership for the Jackson Heart Study’s multi-million dollar Data Coordinating Center funded by NIH-NHLBI. Dr. Hughes is an affiliated faculty to East Carolina University, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson State University and University of Western Cape-South Africa. She is a graduate of the University of California-Berkeley with both master's and doctorate degrees in epidemiology.
|
|

|
 |
Eric J. DeMaria, M.D., FACS
Director
Duke Health System Weight Loss Surgery Program
Durham, North Carolina
Eric J. DeMaria received his medical degree at the Boston University School of
Medicine in 1983, and then completed seven years of general surgical training
at Brown University. He served on the faculty of the Medical College of
Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University between 1990 and 2005 where he
assumed leadership of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Center and the Obesity
Surgery Center. In 2001, he was appointed General Surgery Division Chairman and
received the Paul Nutter Professorship in Surgery in 2004. Dr. DeMaria joined
Duke University in July 2005 where he was named chief of programs in
Endosurgery and Obesity Surgery, Chief of Duke Surgery at Durham Regional
Hospital, and vice chairman of Duke Network General Surgery.
|
|

|
 |
Walter J. Pories, M.D., FACS
Chairman, SRC Board of Directors
Director, Metabolic Institute and
Professor of Surgery, Biochemistry, Exercise
and Sport Science
Department of Surgery, Brody School of Medicine
East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina
Dr. Pories is an experienced bariatric surgeon who serves as Director of the
Metabolic Institute at East Carolina University (ECU). He is also the Principal
Investigator of the NIH-funded ECU National Center for the Longitudinal
Assessment of Bariatric Surgery, as well as other research programs funded by the Johnson & Johnson Corporation and Golden LEAF. Dr. Pories has served as the President of the
American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and past president of the North Carolina
Medical Board.
|
|

|
 |
Harvey J. Sugerman, M.D., FACS
Chairman, Bariatric Surgery Review Committee
Emeritus Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
Sanibel, Florida
Dr. Sugerman graduated from Johns Hopkins University and the Jefferson
University School of Medicine in 1966. He spent two years in the Army in
Nurenberg, Germany and as Lieutenant Colonel at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Dr.
Sugerman began at the Virginia Commonwealth University in 1978, where he was
the David M. Hume Professor of Surgery and Chief of the General Surgery and
Trauma Division. He is retired from clinical practice and is Emeritus Professor
of Surgery. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 20 books and
55 book chapters, many dealing with the improvement in obesity co-morbidity
following surgically induced weight loss, as well as the first randomized trial
comparing vertical banded gastroplasty to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. He is a
past-president of the ASMBS and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Surgery for
Obesity and Related Diseases (SOARD), the official peer-reviewed
journal of the ASMBS.
|
|

|
 |
Bruce Wolfe, M.D., FACS
Professor of Surgery
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, Oregon
Dr. Bruce Wolfe received his medical degree from St. Louis University and did his
fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Since 1977 Dr. Wolfe has been a professor
at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine. He is also a
professor of surgery at Oregon Health and Science University.
|