The application process for the HPB-GI Fellowship at WashU opens on December 2, 2024. Applications are submitted through The Fellowship Council. For more information and to apply, please visit the Fellowship Council website.
For additional questions, please contact the program coordinator Kelly Stockstill at 314-273-1398 or stockstill@wustl.edu.
The Section of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic and Gastrointestinal (HPB-GI) Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital is a large, national surgical referral center for disorders of the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and GI tract. Founded in 1992, the Section has acquired a reputation as one of the highest volume liver and pancreas surgery units in the United States, not only for open surgery but also for minimally invasive operations especially robotic liver and pancreatic surgery.
The Section’s faculty members also are involved in the development of the discipline of HPB surgery. A list of publications from our faculty is is appended (see “View Research Profile” buttons on Faculty Profiles). Faculty are involved in both clinical and basic science research, and fellows have the opportunity to be involved in research endeavors during fellowship.
In July 2006, the Section established a single fellow one-year clinical fellowship in HPB surgery for graduates of accredited general surgery training programs in the United States or Canada. The fellowship transitioned to a single fellow two-year fellowship in 2020 in conjunction with the expansion of robotic surgery, to allow for ample training in complex minimally invasive HPB surgery.
Operative care is provided at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Missouri Baptist Medical Center where the fellow is involved in treating a broad array and high volume of surgical patients with complex benign and malignant HPB conditions. The fellow is involved in all aspects of peri-operative care in addition to assessment of new patients and follow-up of existing patients in the outpatient clinic. The HPB fellow works predominantly with surgeons in the HPB, Surgical Oncology and Liver Transplant sections. Dominic Sanford, MD, serves as fellowship program director, and Natasha Leigh, MD serves as associate program director. Additional faculty include Roheena Panni, MD within the Section of HPB, Ryan Fields, MD and Trang Nguyen, MD within the Section of Surgical Oncology, and William Chapman, MD, Adeel Khan, MD, Maria Majella Doyle, MD and Darren Cullinan, MD within the Section of Transplant Surgery. The fellow will also work with four advanced practice providers: Cheryl Woolsey, PA, Natalie Meirink, NP, Bailey Leftwich, PA and Sarah Borgerding, PA.
In addition, there are ample opportunities and resources for clinical research and educational pursuits. The fellow is expected to participate in teaching rounds and will be an important contributor to the education of our general surgery residents and medical students. The fellow will also attend several weekly multi-disciplinary conferences as well as the monthly HPB fellows conference. The HPB and transplant fellows will coordinate HPB journal club throughout the academic year.