August 2007

 Dr. John Sweeney Appointed Chief of General and GI Surgery

The Department of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine is proud to announce the appointment of John F. Sweeney, MD, as Acting Professor and Chief of the Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery. Dr. Sweeney received his medical degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago, IL, in 1988. He then completed his internship and general surgery residency in the Department of Surgery at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL, receiving the Outstanding Surgical Intern Award (1988-1989) and the Outstanding Surgical Resident Award (1990-1991 and 1994-1995). He also did a two-year research fellowship in immunology and inflammation at the institution.

In 1995, Dr. Sweeney accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Section of General Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, later joining the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Ann Arbor as Chief of the General Surgery Section in 1996. In August 1997, he was appointed Chief of the Surgery Service, serving until July 1999 when he became Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery at the University of Michigan. He assumed the position of Associate Professor and Chief of the Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Division of General Surgery of The Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, in June 2001, as well as becoming the Director of the Michael E. DeBakey Minimally Invasive Surgery Center of Excellence. In 2002, he began directing Baylor's Bariatric Surgery Program, and in 2004 he was appointed Chief of the Division of General Surgery.

Dr. Sweeney has received various honors and awards and has authored more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed professional journals. In addition, he has taken part in numerous presentations regarding his clinical interests of reflux disease, hernia repair, minimally invasive surgery, surgical management of splenic diseases and minimally invasive approaches to the anterior lumbar spine for spinal fusion. His research interests are in minimally invasive surgery, inflammation and surgical simulation training.

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