DAVID KOOBY
Estados Unidos
Dr. Kooby is a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology and Chief of Emory Surgery in the Northern Arc. He serves as the Chief of Staff and as Board of Directors member for Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital. He is an international leader in surgery of the pancreas, liver and biliary system, with an emphasis on minimally invasive surgical approaches. He founded the minimally invasive pancreatic resection clinical program at Emory and co-founded the minimally invasive esophagectomy program.
Dr. Kooby co-chaired the first International Conference on Minimally Invasive Pancreatic Resection in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2016, and is frequently invited around the World to lecture on this topic. He served as the Scientific Program Chair of the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association in 2019, for the largest society of liver and pancreas surgeons in the Americas. He is a member of the American Joint Commission on Cancer for updating of the staging of hepatobiliary and pancreatic malignancies.
Dr. Kooby's research focuses on multi-center, collaborative clinical outcomes studies pertaining to gastrointestinal malignancies. He co-founded the Central Pancreas Consortium, an active multi-institutional group for studying pancreatic tumors and pancreatic surgery, with Emory taking the lead on several high-impact studies. In addition to publishing numerous journal articles and book chapters, he co-edited the 2015 edition of Gastrointestinal Malignancies: New Innovative Diagnostics and Treatment and co-authored the 2007 edition of A Clinician's Guide to Nuclear Oncology.
Estados Unidos
Dr. Kooby is a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology and Chief of Emory Surgery in the Northern Arc. He serves as the Chief of Staff and as Board of Directors member for Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital. He is an international leader in surgery of the pancreas, liver and biliary system, with an emphasis on minimally invasive surgical approaches. He founded the minimally invasive pancreatic resection clinical program at Emory and co-founded the minimally invasive esophagectomy program.
Dr. Kooby co-chaired the first International Conference on Minimally Invasive Pancreatic Resection in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2016, and is frequently invited around the World to lecture on this topic. He served as the Scientific Program Chair of the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association in 2019, for the largest society of liver and pancreas surgeons in the Americas. He is a member of the American Joint Commission on Cancer for updating of the staging of hepatobiliary and pancreatic malignancies.
Dr. Kooby's research focuses on multi-center, collaborative clinical outcomes studies pertaining to gastrointestinal malignancies. He co-founded the Central Pancreas Consortium, an active multi-institutional group for studying pancreatic tumors and pancreatic surgery, with Emory taking the lead on several high-impact studies. In addition to publishing numerous journal articles and book chapters, he co-edited the 2015 edition of Gastrointestinal Malignancies: New Innovative Diagnostics and Treatment and co-authored the 2007 edition of A Clinician's Guide to Nuclear Oncology.