Dr. Poultsides Promoted to Professor

July 24, 2020

Dr. George Poultsides has been promoted to Professor of Surgery: General Surgery in the MCL effective September 1, 2020.

"We look forward to George’s continued outstanding contributions," wrote Division of General Surgery Chief Dr. Electron Kebebew in an announcement to the faculty.

Poultsides was promoted to Chief of Stanford's Surgical Oncology Section last year and is Program Director for our new Surgical Oncology Fellowship. He also serves as Physician Lead of the GI Oncology Clinical Research Program at the Stanford Cancer Institute and sits on the guidelines panel of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network for gastric and esophageal cancer.