T. J. Eberlein, MD, FACS, St. Louis, MO
Dr. Eberlein is the Bixby Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Washington
University in St. Louis, and also serves as Surgeon and Chief at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He is also the Olin Distinguished Professor
and Director of the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Eberlein
graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He trained in surgery at Peter
Bent Brigham Hospital. He also completed research and clinical Fellowships at the National Cancer Institute (NIH).
Dr. Eberlein served
as the Richard E. Wilson Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology and Vice
Chairman for Research in the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is active in the American College of
Surgeons and has served as Chairman of the Committee on Research and Education as well as Vice Chairman of the Surgical Forum Committee.
He is a Director of the American Board of Surgery and is Chairman of the Surgical Oncology Advisory Council. Dr. Eberlein also serves
on the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine.
Dr. Eberlein participates actively in the work of the National
Cancer Institute, serving on the Board of Scientific Counselors and having been an NIH Study Section Chair in the past. He is active
in the Society of Surgical Oncology and many other professional organizations in surgery, surgical oncology and cancer. He is a member
of the editorial boards of many peer-reviewed journals including Annals of Surgical Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Annals of Surgery, and
Surgery. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Yearbook in Surgery and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
Dr. Eberlein's bibliography includes more than three hundred titles. His publications focus on work in tumor immunology, molecular biology,
breast cancer, sarcoma, and gastrointestinal malignancies.
T. R. Billiar, Pittsburgh, PA
Dr. Billiar is the George Vance Foster Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery
at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Billiar received his MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and training
in General Surgery at the University of Minnesota and the University of Pittsburgh. He has a long-standing interest in the pathophysiology
of sepsis and shock. He has served as past-President of the Society of University Surgeons and is President-elect of the International
Nitric Oxide Society. He has served on the Editorial Board of ten journals. In addition, he is a member of SAT/NIH Study Section and
has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1986.
K. D. Anderson, San Gabriel, CA
Dr. Anderson was born in Lancashire, England and began her medical studies at Girton
College, Cambridge. There she met her husband Dr. French Anderson in an anatomy class, married and emigrated to the US where she graduated
from Harvard Medical School. She spent a year in pediatric medicine and then entered into surgical residency at Georgetown University
Hospital in Washington DC. Dr. Anderson specialized in pediatric surgery at Children?s National Medical Center and joined the faculty
at George Washington University, advancing from Assistant Professor to Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Surgery. Her
current practice is at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles where she became Surgeon-in-Chief and Vice President of Surgery in 1992 with a
concurrent appointment as Professor of Surgery at the University of Southern California. Dr. Anderson is a participating member of numerous
national and international surgical societies as well as holding the title of Secretary of the American College of Surgeons for the past
9 years and is the immediate Past Vice-President of the College. She served as President of the American Pediatric Surgical Association
from 2000-2001. In 1999 Dr. Anderson was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. She has had over 100 papers
and book chapters published and is on the editorial board of several surgical and medical journals.
M. F. Brennan, New York, NY
Dr. Brennan was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and received a degree in mathematics from
the University of New Zealand and a medical degree from the University of Otago in 1964; his interest in physiology and surgery began
at this point in the laboratory. In 1970, he began advanced laboratory and clinical work with Francis D. Moore, MD, FACS, at Peter Bent
Brigham Hospital, Harvard Medical School and with George F. Cahill Jr., MD at the Joslin Research Laboratories. Encouraged and supported
in his interest in nutrition and metabolism, Dr. Brennan made a major commitment to laboratory and clinical investigation.
J. E. Fischer, Boston, MA
Dr. Fischer attended Harvard Medical School, graduating magnum cum laude in 1961. He interrupted
residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital twice, first serving as a research associate at the National Institutes of Health
from 1963-1965 with Dr. Julius Axelrod and Dr. Irwin Kopin, and again to work with Dr. K. Frank Austen at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
in 1968.
After serving as the east service chief resident in 1969, Dr. Fischer joined the faculty at Harvard in 1970, rising to associate
professor in 1975 and serving as head of the Surgical Physiological Laboratory, and chief of the Hyperalimentation Unit at the Massachusetts
General Hospital. In 1978, Dr. Fischer assumed the position of Christian R. Holmes Professor and chairman of the department of surgery
at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. In 1999, Dr. Fischer assumed the additional position of Associate Dean for Community
Affairs.
Dr. Fischer's principal interests are gastrointestinal surgery, metabolism, especially as it relates to sepsis, nutritional
support, liver disease, and cancer anorexia and cachexia. He has contributed to more than 750 publications and has edited eight books.
He has served on councils of most surgical organizations, was president of the Halsted Society, the Surgical Infection Society, and
the Central Surgical Association. He served as chairman of the American Board of Surgery in 1998, and is currently on the Residency Review
Committee for Surgery.
Dr. Fischer has served as Governor and First Vice President of the American College of Surgeons and is current
Chairman of the Advisory Council for General Surgery. He re-ceived the Distinguished Service Award in 1997 and in 1996, he received the
Distinguished Service Award from the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, of which he served as President in 1995. The University
of Cincinnati awarded Dr. Fischer the Award for Excellence in 1997.
He holds an honorary Doctor of Medicine degree from the University
of Lund, Sweden, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.
Dr. Eberlein is the Bixby Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Washington
University in St. Louis, and also serves as Surgeon and Chief at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He is also the Olin Distinguished Professor
and Director of the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Eberlein
graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He trained in surgery at Peter
Bent Brigham Hospital. He also completed research and clinical Fellowships at the National Cancer Institute (NIH). 
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