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Topic: Challenges and
Timothy M. Pawlik, Prof.
Professor and Chair, Department of
Surgery; The Urban Meyer III and
Shelley Meyer Chair for Cancer Research;
Professor of Surgery, Oncology, and
Health Services Management and
Policy; Surgeon in Chief, The Ohio State
University Wexner Medical Center; The
Ohio State University, Wexner Medical
Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
Opportunities for Treating
Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma
Prof. Pawlik received his undergraduate degree from
Georgetown University and his medical degree from Tufts
University School of Medicine. Prof. Pawlik completed
surgical training at the University of Michigan Hospital
and spent two years at the Massachusetts General Hospital
as a surgical oncology research fellow. He then went on for
advanced training in surgical oncology at The University
of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Prof.
Pawlik’s main clinical interests include alimentary tract
surgery, with a special interest in hepatic, pancreatic and biliary
diseases. Prof. Pawlik also has an interest in medical ethics
and completed a fellowship in medical ethics at the Harvard
School of Public Health. Prof. Pawlik’s research focuses
on determinations of factors associated with prognosis and
staging of gastrointestinal cancers, as well as the economics of
cancer care. He also studies patient/physician communication
and patient engagement, as well as patient perception of cancer-
care goals. Prof. Pawlik has consistently been recognized
by Castle Connolly as one of America’s “Top Docs.”
Prof. Pawlik has published over 1,700 articles and over 100
book chapters, in addition to editing 14 surgical textbooks.
His research has been cited over 92,000 times with an H-index
of 148 and an iCite weighted RCR of over 3,000. Prof. Pawlik
serves on multiple editorial boards and is Editor-in-Chief of
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Deputy Editor of JAMA
Surgery, as well as an Associate Editor for Annals of Surgical
Oncology. Prof. Pawlik has served on the executive council
of several of the premier surgical associations in the United
States. Prof. Pawlik is a member of multiple surgical societies
including the American Surgical Association, Society of
Surgical Oncology, Society of Surgery of the Alimentary
Tract, Halsted Society, and Society of Clinical Surgery.