"Microbiome science to understand and prevent the worst of our surgical complications”

Dr Alverdy is the Sarah and Harold Lincoln Thompson Professor of Surgery, Executive Vice-Chair of the department of surgery and associate director of the NIH Digestive Disease Research Center Core at the University of Chicago. He has been continuously RO1 funded by the NIH over 20 years where he has trained over 30 postdoctoral fellows. He is past president of the Surgical Infection Society, past recipient of the Ravdin lectureship and Surgical Forum dedication at the American College of Surgery and recipient of the Flance-Karl Award from the American Surgical Association.

Dr Alverdy attended medical school at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara and Loyola University and received his surgical training at the University of Chicago affiliated Michael Reese Hospital. He completed a surgical research fellowship at the University of California San Francisco. Dr Alverdy has an active practice involving minimally invasive surgery of esophagus, stomach and pancreatobiliary tree.