Dr. Juan Sarmiento, Division of General and GI Surgery, Dept. of Surgery, Emory University SOM

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Juan M. Sarmiento, MD

Academic Appointment
	Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of General and GI Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Clinical Appointment
	Director, Hepaticopancreaticobiliary Surgery

Telephone
	404.727.1540

Location of Practice
	Inpatient: Emory University Hospital

	Outpatient: The Emory Clinic

Graduate Education
	MD received 1987, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Postgraduate Training
	General Surgery Residency, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, 1987-1993, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 1996-2000

Fellowship/Advanced Training
	GI Surgical Scholar (Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2000-2002

Prior Appointments
	Assistant Professor of Surgery, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN, 2002-2003

	Senior Associate Consultant, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2002-2003

Board Certification
	American Board of Surgery

Honors and Awards
	Distinguished Poster: Laparoscopic Resection of the Liver, SAGES 2005 Annual Meeting

	History of Medicine Fellowship, Southern Surgical Association, December 2005

	Surgical Fellow Teacher of the Year, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, June 2001

	Karee D. Nygaard Award, Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Sciences Research, Department of Surgery, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, 1999

Current Organizational Memberships
	American College of Surgeons, Fellow

	Surgical Society of the Alimentary Tract

	Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons

	Association for Academic Surgery

	Atlanta Surgical Society

	Southeastern Surgical Society

	Membership Committee, American Hepatopancreaticobiliary Association

	The Pancreas Club

	Mayo Medical Alumni Association

	American Medical Association

	Priestly Surgical Society

	Minnesota Medical Association

	Zumbro Valley Medical Society

	Sociedad Colombiana de Cirugía

	Associación Colombiana de Nutrición Cliníca

	Honorary Member, Paraquay Society of Surgery

Clinical and Research Interests
	Surgical treatment of metastatic liver disease

	Primary hepatic tumors

	Gallbladder cancer

	Cholangiocarcinoma

	Chronic pancreatitis

	Reconstruction of the bile duct

	Surgery of the stomach

Year Joined the Department of Surgery as a Faculty Member
	2003