Temple Israel Brotherhood
Presents
Blood and Guts: Breakthroughs and Advances in Medicine
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Sunday Morning Speaker Breakfast
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Speakers:
Scott Shikora, MD, FACS
Mark A. Popovsky, MD
Sunday, Dec. 8, 10am
Cost: $10 at the door / $8 in advance
RSVP to Neal Fineman
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Call 781-784-6344
RSVP online @ www.tisharon.org/Dec8SpeakerBreakfast
Dr.
Scott Shikora, MD, FACS is a board certified general surgeon who has
been involved in minimally invasive general and bariatric surgery for
over 20 years. He attended medical school at Columbia University
College of Physicians & Surgeons and completed his surgical
residency and Nutrition Support fellowship at New England Deaconess
Hospital in Boston. He then spent the next four years as a staff
surgeon in the United States Air Force. He is a member of several
medical societies and is active in leadership the American Society for
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery where he was both a Past President and a former Executive Council member. Dr. Shikora is an Associate Editor of
the surgical journal Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases and the
current Editor-in-Chief of Obesity Surgery. Dr. Shikora worked at
Tufts Medical Center in Boston for over 16 years where he was the
Director of the Weight and Wellness Center, and Chief of the divisions
of Bariatric and General Surgery. He also was a Professor of Surgery at
Tufts University School of Medicine. Currently, he is an Associate
Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the
Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital in Boston.
Mark Popovsky, MD, is an honors graduate of the University of Vermont
College of Medicine. He received his training in anatomic and clinical
pathology at the National Institutes of Health, and transfusion medicine
at the Mayo Clinic. He served as Director of the Transfusion &
Intravenous Services at the Mayo Clinic from 1982-1985. In 1985 he
assumed the role of Medical Director of the American Red Cross – New
England Region, a position he held until 1995. From 1996-2000, he was
Chief Executive Officer & Chief Medical Officer of the New England
Region. He is an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Laboratory Medicine at
Boston University Medical School and Associate Clinical Professor of
Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center in Boston. He has authored, or co-authored, over 375 publications
in transfusion medicine and pathology. He is the editor and co-editor,
respectively, of two reference books on transfusion medicine. He
currently serves as Vice President & Chief Medical Officer of the
Haemonetics Corporation. Dr. Popovsky serves on the editorial board of 5
journals and has held positions on numerous AABB, national and
international committees and NIH panels. He served in Nigeria in 2004 as
a member of the PEPFAR delegation to that country. He is the recipient
of numerous awards for contributions to transfusion medicine and
teaching. He was the 2009 AABB Emily Cooley Awardee.