Dr. Edward Lin, Division of General and GI Surgery, Dept. of Surgery, Emory SOM

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Edward Lin, DO

Academic Appointments
	Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of General and GI Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

	Director, Emory Endosurgery Unit for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Clinical Appointments
	Director, Gastroesophageal Treatment Center and Esophageal Physiology Lab, The Emory Clinic

	Surgical Director, Emory Bariatric Center

Telephone
	404.712.2196

Location of Practice
	Emory University Hospital

	Emory University Hospital Midtown

	Atlanta VA Medical Center

	Grady Memorial Hospital

	The Emory Clinic

Medical School
	Des Moines University-College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, Des Moines, IA, 1989-1993

Postgraduate Training
	Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New York, NY, 1993-1995

	The New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens, 1995-96, 1999-2001

	Fellow, Laboratory of Nutrition and Surgical Metabolism, The New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY, 1996-1997

	Fellow, Division of Surgical Sciences, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, 1997-1999

	Laparoscopic and GI Surgery Fellow, Division of General and GI Surgery, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA, 2001-2003

Board Certification
	American Board of Surgery

	Certified Nutrition Support Physician, National Board of Nutrition Support Certification

Medical License
	New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Georgia

Honors and Awards
	Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons Grant, 2002

	Jameson L. Chassin Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, New York Hospital, Queens, 2000, 2001

	Surgical Infection Society Research Grant, 1998

Organizational Memberships
	American College of Surgeons, Fellow

	Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons: Flexible Endoscopy Committee, Resident Education Committee, Publications Committee

	American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

	Society of Critical Care Medicine

	American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons

	Society for the Surgery of the Alimentary Tract

	Association for Academic Surgery

	American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

	American Gastroenterological Association

	Southeastern Surgical Congress

	American Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgeons

	Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons

	American College of Gastroenterology

Clinical Interests
	Colon cancer

	Colonoscopy

	Endoscopy

	Esophageal cancer

	Endoscopic GERD treatment (first surgeon in U.S. to perform endoscopic plication for GERD, Emory University Hospital Midtown, 6/23/04)

	Stomach cancer

	Liver and pancreas surgery

	Laparoscopic surgery

	Bariatric surgery

	Hemorrhoid surgery

	Hernia surgery

Research Focus
	Inflammatory response syndrome and metabolic alterations related to gastrointestinal surgery, the goal being to identify biomarkers (cytokines and gut hormones) through standard molecular biology methodology as well as genomics analysis in patients undergoing surgery

	Endoscopic therapy and interventions of the gastrointestinal tract

Year Joined the Department of Surgery as a Faculty Member
	2003