Faculty Profiles
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John F. Sweeney, MD
– W. Dean Warren Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chief, Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
– Director, Clinical Quality and Patient Safety, Department of Surgery, Emory
Telephone: 404.727.1540
E-mail: jfsween@emory.edu
Certification: American Board of Surgery
Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member: 2007
Before joining Emory as chief of the division of general and gastrointestinal surgery in September 2007, Dr. Sweeney directed the division of general surgery, the bariatric surgery program, and the Michael E. DeBakey Minimally Invasive Surgery Center of Excellence of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine. Prior to that, he served as chief of surgery at the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center and director of minimally invasive surgery at the University of Michigan.
Since becoming the director of the Quality Improvement Program of the Department of Surgery at Emory in 2008, Dr. Sweeney has helmed its participation in the University Healthcare Consortium Quality and Accountability Program (UHC QAP), American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS/NSQIP), Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP), and Best Practices for Better Care (BPBC). In 2010, Dr. Sweeney and Co-PI James C. Cox, director of the Experimental Economics Center of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, received a three year collaborative award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) for "Uptake of Comparative Effectiveness Research: Implications for Discharge Decision." The project is focusing on hospital length of stay as a central factor in the complex interplay between quality of health care delivery and medical costs and is experimenting with alternative choices and new applications of information technology designed to increase physicians' effectiveness in identifying when to discharge a patient. In mid-2011, Dr. Sweeney and his Emory team also began a detailed analysis of general surgery readmissions with the goal of creating a patient readmission profile by identifying risk factors for return to the hospital.
Affiliations
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Inpatient: Emory University Hospital
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Outpatient: The Emory Clinic
Medical School
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Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL, Class of 1988
General Surgery Internship and Residency
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University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 1988-1995
Fellowship/Advanced Training
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Surgery Immunology Research Fellowship, University of South Florida, 1991-1993
Honors and Awards
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Senior Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Michigan Medical School, 1999
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William W. Coon Teaching Award, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, 2000
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James IV Association of Surgeons Traveling Scholarship; 156th Surgical Traveler to England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia and Hong Kong; 2002-2003
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Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching and Evaluation, Baylor College of Medicine, 2005
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Atlanta's Top Doctors, Atlanta Magazine, 2009, 2010, 2011
Organizational Memberships
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American College of Surgeons, Fellow
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Notre Dame National Monogram Club
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Association for Academic Surgery
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Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
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Frederick A. Coller Surgical Society
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Association of VA Surgeons
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Society of University Surgeons
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Central Surgical Association
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Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons: Educational Resources Committee, Continuing Education Committee
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Harris County Medical Society
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Texas Medical Association
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Michael E. DeBakey International Surgical Society
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Houston Surgical Society
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American Society for Bariatric Surgery
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Southern Surgical Association
Clinical Interests
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Bariatric surgery
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Laparoscopic colon resection
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Reflux disease
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Hernia repair
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Minimally invasive surgery
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Surgical management of splenic diseases (including laparoscopic removal of the spleen)
Research Interests
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The clinical outcomes of minimally invasive surgical procedures and the role of medical student and resident education in these areas
- Health services research
