ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Staff
Surgeon- Dept. of General Surgery, Tufts-NEMC
Division
of Bariatric Surgery
Assistant
Professor of Surgery,
Tufts University
School of Medicine (July 2003-
Present)
EDUCATION
Tufts-New
England Medical Center
Department
of Surgery, Boston, MA
July
2002- June 2003
Minimally
Invasive Fellowship
Program
Director: Scott Shikora
Boston
University Medical Center
Department
of Surgery, Boston, MA
July
1997- June 2002
General
Surgery Internship and Residency
Rush
Medical College
Chicago,
IL
July
1993- June 1997
Doctor
of Medicine
Bates
College
Lewiston,
ME
September
1988- May 1992
B.S.
Biology
AWARDS
Alpha
Omega Alpha Honor Society ,
1996
National
Science Foundation, Grant
recipient, 1989
CERTIFICATION
American
Board of Surgery, 2003
Laparoscopic
Adjustable Gastic Band , 2003
PROFESSIONAL
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
American
Society of Bariatric Surgery
American
College of Surgeons
MEDIA
Scientific
American Frontier Series, Hosted by
Alan Alda
"Losing
It" PBS, January, 2004
Live
Case Broadcast- Laparoscopic Roux-en-y
Gastric Bypass
88
th Clinical Congress, American College
of Surgeons
San
Francisco,
CA October 6-10, 2002
PUBLICATIONS
Shikora
S, Kim J, Tarnoff M. Reinforcing Gastric
Staple-lines
With Bovine Pericardial
Strips may Decrease Likelihood of Gastric
Leak after Laparoscopic Roux-en-y Gastric
Bypass.
Obesity Surgery , Volume 13,
2003.
Kim J, Tarnoff M, Shikora S. Surgical
Treatment for
Extreme
Obesity: Evolution of a Rapidly Growing
Field
Nutrition in Clinical Practice 18:109-123,
2003.
Shikora
S, Smith D, Kim J. Surgical Interventions
for the
Management of Obesity.
Management
of eating disorders and
obesity. 2 nd Ed.
David Goldstein
editor. Humana Press, Inc,
Totawa, NJ, 2003.
Tarnoff
M, Kim J, Shikora S. Patient Selection,
Pre-Operative Assessment And
Preparation in Shauer P Minimally
Invasive Bariatric Surgery.
Springer-Verlag,
New York, NY (in press)
Kim
J, Shikora S, Tarnoff M. Bariatric
Surgery in the Elderly in
Shauer
P Minimally Invasive Bariatric Surgery.
Springer-Verlag, New York, NY (in press)
Shikora S, Tarnoff M, Kim J. Gastric Pacing in
Shauer P Minimally
Invasive
Bariatric Surgery. Springer-Verlag, New
York, NY (in press)
PRESENTATIONS
Kim J, Shikora
S. Internal hernia (IH) after retrocolic,
retrogastric roux-en-y gastric bypass
(RYGBP).
Presented at Poster Session: 20 th
ASBS Meeting ,
June , 2003
Tarnoff
M, Kim J, Shikora S. Laparoscopic approach
to internal hernia
after
gastric bypass. Society of Gastrointestinal
and Endoscopic Surgeons
Los
Angeles, California, March 12-15 2003
Multidisciplinary
Treatement of Obesity
Laparoscopic
Bariatric Surgery Course, Obesity Consult
Center
Tufts-
New England Medical Center
Nantucket,
MA, 2002, 2003
RESEARCH
Project:
Industry Sponsored, WL Gore Assessing
burst strength pressure
of buttressed
staple lines in the Porcine
Stomach Model
PI Julie Kim, M.D.,
Division of Bariatrics, Tufts-New England
Medical Center, 2004
Project:
Industry Sponsored, Tyco Healthcare/Kendall
Incidence of venothromboembolic events
(VTE) in the bariatric patient
PI Julie
Kim, M.D., Division of Bariatrics, Tufts-New
England Medical Center, 2004
Project: Experience in Laparoscopic
Nissen Fundoplication
Keith W. Millikan,
M.D., Dept. of General Surgery, Rush
Medical College, 1996
Project:
Postgraduate year and management of abnormal
pap smears
Cynthia
Waickus, M.D., PhD, Dept. of Biochemistry
Family
Medicine, Rush Medical College, 1994
Project: Formation of monoclonal antibody
against Arylsulfatase
Joe Pellicia, PhD,
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology,
Bates College, Summer, 1989
TEACHING
Bariatric
Surgery Symposium, United States Surgical,
Norwalk, CT, December,
4-5, 2003
United
States Surgical, Tyco Healthcare, Bariatric
Proctor and Preceptor, 2003-2004
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