F. Charles Brunicardi, M.D. FACS, the Medical College of Ohio (MCO) Alumni Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences was named as Senior Vice President, Dean of the College of Medicine and Professor of Surgery in 2019 at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. Dr. Brunicardi joined the University of Toledo in 2016 as Chair of Surgery and Academic Chief of Surgery for the ProMedica Health System. Additionally, he has served as Director of the UTMC Cancer Program from 2017-2019 and was named the John Howard Endowed Professor of Pancreatic Cancer Research in 2018. From 2018-2019, he served as a medical director of the Ebeid Social Determinants of Health Institute at ProMedica and the Department of Cancer Biology Interim Chair from 2018-19, as well as the Department of Cancer Biology Professor in 2018. Dr. Brunicardi brings more than three decades of experience in academic medicine and patient care, serving on the faculty at three medical schools and as Chair of two departments of Surgery and Vice-Chair of another. Dr. Brunicardi earned his undergraduate degree in Chemistry with Honors at the Johns Hopkins University and his medical degree at Rutgers University School of Medicine. Before joining the University of Toledo, Dr. Brunicardi was the Jerry Moss Professor of Personalized Gastrointestinal Surgery and Vice-Chair of Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His other notable past appointments include serving as the DeBakey-Bard Professor and Chair of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery for 12 years, George Jordan Professor and the Founding Chief of the Division of General Surgery, Founder and Director of Elkins Pancreas Center at the Baylor College of Medicine, and as Chief of Surgical Services, Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas. Dr. Brunicardi has 320 publications and 10 patents and has been the Editor-in-Chief of Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery Textbook since 2000.