Editor Name: Steven Wexner, MD

Country: Primary Location Cleveland Clinic Florida - Weston

Educational Qualification: M.D., Ph.D. (Honorary) FACS, FRCS, FRCS(Ed)

Department: Colorectal Surgery

Email: wexners@ccf.org 

BIOGRAPHY: 

Steven D. Wexner, M.D., Ph.D. (Honorary) FACS, FRCS, FRCS(Ed), is Director of the Digestive Disease Center at Cleveland Clinic Florida and Chairman of the Department of Colorectal Surgery. He previously served as Chief Academic Officer (2007-2012), Chief of Staff (1997-2007), and Chairman of the Division of Research and Education (1996-2007) at Cleveland Clinic Florida.

Further, Dr. Wexner's work has resulted in the establishment of the double-stapling technique as the gold standard in J-Pouches, which prevent the patient from needing a permanent ileostomy. He has been instrumental in the adoption of the ileal J-Pouch for patients with ulcerative colitis or familial adenomatous polyposis, and the colonic J-Pouch for patients with rectal cancer.

More recently, Dr. Wexner spearheaded the establishment of the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (NAPRC), which began accepting applications in June 2017. The NAPRC is the culmination of a seven year campaign, led by Dr. Wexner, to standardize and globalize the practice of colorectal surgery through international collaboration and advocacy. This approach began in 1988, long before global collaboration between physicians and researchers became common.

Dr. Wexner is the Founder and Director of the Annual International Colorectal Disease Symposium hosted by Cleveland Clinic Florida, the largest annual international colorectal course in the United States. He also helped create numerous international meetings including in Phuket, Thailand; Chennai, India; London, England; Barcelona, Spain, and Dubai, UAE.

 Dr. Wexner holds academic appointments as Affiliate Professor at Florida Atlantic University; Clinical Professor at Florida International University; Affiliate Professor, Department of Surgery at the University of South Florida; 

 Professor of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Foundation Health Sciences Center of The Ohio State University, Research Professor of Biomedical Science at Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University; 

 Affiliate Professor of Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; Professor of Surgery, University of Siena, Siena, Italy; 

 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical Organization, Jerusalem, Israel; 

 Honorary Professor at the University of Belgrade in Belgrade, Serbia, and Honorary Professor of Surgery at the First Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia. He received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Belgrade in Belgrade, Serbia.

Awards

 Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (2019)

 Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland (2017)

 President of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Research Foundation (2014-2016)

 Honorary membership to the European Surgical Association (2015)

 President of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (2011-2012)

 President of the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery (2010-2011)

 Election to the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2008)

 President of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (2006-2007)

 Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (2001)

 Fellowship ad eundum, Royal College of Surgeons of England (February 10, 2000)

 Fellow, American College of Surgeons (October 1991)

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