Overview
Details the latest procedures, methods and information
Examines diseases and physiologic changes by system
Includes specialty-specific results of surgery and suggested modifications recommended by experienced surgeons
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (61 entries)
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Principles
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Preoperative Assessment
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael E. Zenilman
Weill Cornell Medicine
Department of Surgery New York Presbyterian Brooklyn
Methodist Hospital
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Michael E. Zenilman, M.D., graduated college at State University of New York at Stony Brook and received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical School in Brooklyn in 1984. He served as Clarence Dennis Professor and Chair of Surgery at SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, NY, for 10 years. From 2011 to 2016, Dr. Zenilman led the integration of surgical care between the community hospitals and main campus as the inaugural Regional Director of Surgery for the Johns Hopkins Health System. He is currently doing similar work for Weill-Cornell and the NewYork-Presbyterian healthcare network.
An established clinician, teacher, and researcher, Dr. Zenilman has published extensively on pancreatic disease and geriatric surgery and served on the editorial board of JAMA Surgery and the American Journal of Surgery. He remains clinically active and has mentored over 100 surgical residents and over 50 students, fellows, and junior faculty.
Mark R. Katlic is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington and Jefferson College and an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed residencies in Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital. A practicing thoracic surgeon since 1984, Dr. Katlic also earned a Master of Medical Management degree from the John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University in 1999.
Dr. Katlic has had a special interest in caring for the elderly for over 35 years. His paper, “Surgery in Centenarians, ” was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1985, and he went on to publish seven textbooks and to lecture frequently on this subject. As a thoracic surgeon, Dr. Katlic has pioneered video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) under local anesthesia and sedation, with results of 576 cases published in 2017.
Dr. Katlic is presently Chairman of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief of Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He also directs the Sinai Center for Geriatric Surgery. In 2014, Dr. Katlic established The Aging Surgeon Program, a comprehensive, objective evaluation of a surgeon ’ s cognitive and physical faculties, at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. He was named Maryland Innovator of the Year in 2013 and Maryland Physician of the Year in 2019. In his free time he trains for triathlons.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Principles and Practice of Geriatric Surgery
Editors: Ronnie A. Rosenthal, Michael E. Zenilman, Mark R. Katlic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47771-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Reference Module Medicine
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47770-1Published: 29 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47771-8Published: 28 August 2020
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XXX, 1224
Number of Illustrations: 159 b/w illustrations, 102 illustrations in colour
Topics: General Surgery, Anesthesiology, Geriatrics/Gerontology