Dr. Patrick Worth is a liver and pancreatic surgeon-scientist who spends time operating on and researching cancers of the pancreas, bile ducts, and liver. He came to the northwest for General Surgery training at OHSU after growing up in rural eastern Connecticut. In between, he studied Medical Anthropology at NYU and then went on to medical school at Brown. After completing his residency in Portland and becoming board-certified in General Surgery, he spent two years at Stanford doing advanced training in hepatobiliary & pancreatic (HPB) surgery (liver, bile ducts, gallbladder, and pancreas), focusing on robotic and minimally-invasive approaches.

Dr. Worth performed the first robotic Whipple procedure (pancreaticoduodenectomy) in the state and is committed to the rigorous study and appropriate application of minimally invasive techniques to hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgeries, which traditionally require major incisions for adequate exposure.  He is the Program Director of the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Fellowship at OHSU.  

Dr. Worth's lab studies how pancreatic cancer metastasis and recurrence are affected by surgery.  He is an inaugural recipient of the National Cancer Institute's Early-stage Surgeon Scientist Program Award and is a PI on a DOD Pancreatic Cancer Research Program Idea Development Award, partnering with his long-time mentor Rosie Sears and her lab.  He is a faculty member in the graduate school mentoring PhD students as well as residents in the General Surgery program.   

He is motivated by the unique challenges that pancreatic cancer poses and its unique properties and behaviors. He feels privileged to be able to spend his time studying and treating something that touches so many lives in such a devastating way, having lost his own grandmother to pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Worth enjoys spending time cooking and being outdoors and traveling with his three children and his husband. He is an avid reader and gardener and loves to ski. He especially enjoys the local and regional foods of the Pacific northwest and the amazing food scene in Portland. He continues to entertain the idea of running a marathon and enjoys woodworking.