Dr. Christopher Anderson to Present Frazer/Leigh Memorial Lecture

Dr. Christopher D. Anderson, James D. Hardy Professor and Chair of surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and chief of the division of transplantation and hepatopancreatobiliary surgery at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in Jackson, Miss., will present two CME-accredited lectures in November.

Both lectures are open to the public and are made possible through the Emmett B. Frazer, MD., F.A.C.S., and Milton M. Leigh, M.D., F.A.C.S., Memorial Endowments at the University of South Alabama Department of Surgery.

Dr. Anderson will present his first lecture, �Educational Challenges in Surgical Residency - Teaching the Non-Technical Realities,� on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, at 4:30 p.m. in the USA Medical Center second floor conference room.

His second lecture, �Development of HPB Surgery in a Rural State,� will be presented on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, at 7 a.m. in the USA Medical Center second floor conference room.  Following the lecture, brunch will be served in the Mastin Professional Building in room 2018 and Dr. Anderson will critique selected case presentations.

Dr. Anderson earned his medical degree from Emory University in Atlanta. He completed his residency training in general surgery and a research fellowship in  hepatobiliary surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.  He completed a second fellowship in abdominal transplant surgery at Washington Unversity in St. Louis.

Dr. Anderson�s research interests focus on the use of steatolic fatty livers in transplantation. In 2008, he received the American Society of Transplant Surgeons-Astellas Faculty Development Award to investigate the mechanisms of increased cold ischemia and reperfusion injury in transplanted steatotic livers. He subsequently received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to research the same conditions.

He is a member of the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Transplantation, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Association fo Academic Surgery, American Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Association, The Society for Surgery Alimentary Tract, Association of Program Directors in Surgery and Studies in Pediatric Liver Transplantation.

This annual memorial lectureship is given to honor the legacies of Dr. Emmett B. Frazer and Dr. Milton M. Leigh as leaders in clinical service and graduate surgical education in the Mobile community.

For more information contact the USA Department of Surgery at (251) 445-8230.

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