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New Editorial Board Members—July 2017 Melina R. Kibbe, MD

JAMA Surgery would like to thank Diana Farmer, MD, University of California–Davis, David Linehan, MD, University of Rochester, George Velmahos, MD, MsEd, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Martin Paul, MD, Johns Hopkins University, for their extraordinary service and contributions to the journal as members of the Editorial Board. Effective July 1, 2017, JAMA Surgery is pleased to announce the appointment of Dai H. Chung, MD, Yuman Fong, MD, Elliott Richard Haut, MD, PhD, and Brian Zuckerbraun, MD, to our Editorial Board. Dai H. Chung, MD, received his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch, where he also completed his general surgery residency. He completed his fellowship in pediatric general and thoracic surgery at the University of Cincinnati, and held 2 National Institutes of Health research fellowships at the Shriners Hospital for Children and the University of Texas Medical Branch. Dr Chung is a tenured professor of surgery and chair of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He holds the Janie Robinson and John Moore Lee Endowed Chair in Pediatric Surgery and is the program director of the pediatric surgery residency program and the medical director of the pediatric trauma service. He serves as the director of the Center of Excellence in Neuroblastoma Research, holds a joint appointment in the Department of Cancer Biology, and is a member of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. His research interests include pediatric solid tumors, cancer cell biology, and intestinal homeostasis in shock. Yuman Fong, MD, received his bachelor’s degree in medieval literature from Brown University in 1981 and his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1984. After surgical training at the New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, he was appointed to the faculty of the Memorial Sloan-

Kettering Cancer Center, where he held the Murray F. Brennan Chair in Surgery. He is currently the chair of the Department of Surgery at the City of Hope Medical Center. Dr Fong is best known clinically for his extensive work in the field of liver and pancreatic surgery, especially for pioneering many laparoscopic, robotic, and ablative therapies for these cancers. Dr Fong has also been active in biologic bench investigations, and his laboratory has focused over the last 15 years on the field of immuno-oncolytic gene therapy and gene editing. His national administrative roles include service as the chair of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health. Elliott Richard Haut, MD, PhD, received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He stayed in Philadelphia, completing his surgery residency at the Pennsylvania Hospital and the Trauma/Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Pennsylania. Dr Haut obtained his PhD in clinical investigation at The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr Haut is vice chair of quality, safety, and service in the Department of Surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is an associate professor of surgery, emergency medicine, and anesthesiology and critical care medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and health policy and management at The Bloomberg School of Public Health. He directs the Acute Care Surgery Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Dr Haut’s research interests are in the fields of health services, guideline development, trauma outcomes, patient-centered care, and the prevention of venous thromboembolism. Brian Zuckerbraun, MD, is a graduate of the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University. Dr Zuckerbraun performed his general surgery residency and research fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh from 1997

From left: Dai Chung, Yuman Fong, Elliott Haut, Brian Zuckerbraun

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to 2005 and joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently the Henry T. Bahnson Professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and chief of the Division of General and Trauma Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He works clinically at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the US Department of Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System. Dr Zuckerbraun oversees a research laboratory that is focusing on tissue protective responses to pre-

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vent organ injury from trauma or sepsis that is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the US Department of Veteran’s Affairs, and the US Department of Defense. Dr Zuckerbraun is a member of numerous societies, including the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. His clinical interests include trauma, surgical infections, acute care surgery, and hernia and abdominal wall surgery.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

Published Online: June 21, 2017. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2017.1797

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