Dr. Wolfe appointed Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Surgery

Posted Apr 16, 2009

The Department of Surgery is pleased to announce that Bruce Wolfe, MD, has been appointed Vice Chair for Research of the Department of Surgery. Dr. Wolfe is a graduate of Stanford University and the St. Louis University School of Medicine. His surgical training was completed at St. Louis University and he did additional research training at Harvard Medical School. In 2005 he relocated to OHSU from the University of California Davis where he was Professor of Surgery.

Dr. Wolfe has devoted his surgical career to surgical nutrition and specifically obesity, including the surgical care of obese patients and related research, and has made many contributions to the advancement of the surgical treatment of obesity, including a demonstration of the benefits of laparoscopic surgery. Dr. Wolfe currently serves at the co-chair of the NIH research consortium on bariatric surgery, known as LABS. He has performed approximately 1000 bariatric surgical procedures in his career, as well as a wide variety of open and minimally invasive GI surgery.