Dana K. Andersen, M.D., professor of surgery and vice chair of the department of surgery at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been appointed chair of the department of surgery at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Dr. Andersen comes to Johns Hopkins from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Health Care, where he was the Harry M. Haidak Distinguished Professor and chairman of the department of surgery.

Dr. Andersen completed his undergraduate and medical degrees at Duke University, where he also trained in general and thoracic surgery. His distinguished career in pancreatic and hepatobiliary surgery includes appointments at the State University of New York (SUNY) Health Sciences Center in Brooklyn, and at the University of Chicago and Yale, where he was professor and chief of general surgery. His research on gastrointestinal hormone physiology has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, where he was a member of the Surgery and Bioengineering Study Section.

Dr. Andersen is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Surgical Association, past president of the Association for Academic Surgery and an officer or past officer of numerous medical and surgical societies, including the Society of University Surgeons, the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons and the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. Widely published, he is a reviewer for several scientific and clinical journals, an editorial board member for Contemporary Surgery, and an editor of Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery.