our divisions Emergency Medicine Human Anatomy General Surgery Bariatric Surgery Colon & Rectal Surgery Gastrointestinal Surgery Surgical Oncology Trauma & Critical Care Pediatric General Surgery Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Multi-organ Transplantation Vascular Surgery

In 1926, Dr. Emile Holman, the last Halsted trained resident at Johns Hopkins became the first professor and chair of the Stanford Department of Surgery. At that time there were six faculty members. Dr. Holman served for nearly thirty years, initiating a tradition of surgical excellence and innovation that continues to this day.

Though much has changed in the past 80 years, one thing that is the same is our commitment to patients and innovative treatment modalities. In partnership with other medical and surgical departments at Stanford, we are able to provide leading edge care to thousands of patients in all the major surgical subspecialties.

Thomas M. Krummel, M.D.

Our department provides patient care in:

Emergency Medicine where we are a Level 1 trauma center providing expert care to nearly 40,000 people a year and are creating a reputation as a premier center for children’s emergency medical services;

The Life Flight program is an emergency helicopter service staffed by a specially trained crew of two flight nurses and a pilot. It is their mission to provide safe, compassionate, rapid critical care transport through clinical excellence and innovation;

General Surgery including gastrointestinal surgery, surgical oncology (covering breast, liver, pancreas, colon and rectal, and other cancers), bariatric surgery, minimally invasive surgery, trauma and surgical critical care and colon and rectal surgery;

Pediatric Surgery covering all aspects of children’s surgical needs including minimal access surgery that reduces hospital stays and quickens recovery, pioneering efforts in bariatric surgery for young adults and fetal surgery for the very sickest, as well as caring for the other needs of our youngest patients;

Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery providing evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment in all areas of plastic and reconstructive surgery including: Craniofacial Surgery (cleft palates and cleft lips), Cosmetic Surgery, Hand Surgery, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Implantology in children and adults, and Microvascular Reconstruction;

Transplantation and treatment of the liver, kidney, and pancreas in adults and children, and intestinal transplants in children;

Vascular Surgery including traditional open surgical techniques and well as helping to pioneer minimally invasive, endovascular techniques.

More than 100 health care professionals in these specialties see 20,000 patients a year in outpatient offices; perform more than 6,000 procedures in the operating rooms; and emergency medicine specialists work with nearly 40,000 emergency room visits each year.

Additional information on patient care related topics can be found on divisional web pages and at our partner hospitals’ web sites.

Sophisticated three-dimensional reconstruction of an abdominal aortic aneurysm allows preoperative planning for stent graft placement. (Left) Untreated abdominal aortic aneurism (Right) Treated abdominal aortic aneurysm