Professor, Surgery
Chairman, Surgery at Johns Hopkins Bayview
Vice-Chair, Department of Surgery at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Contact Information
410-550-2821 phone dander54@jhmi.edu
410-550-0154 fax
Appointments
410-550-5900 phone
410-550-2011 fax
Curriculum Vitae (CV), Publications (PubMed)
Specialties/Interests
- Clinical - pancreato-biliary surgery, benign and malignant diseases of the pancreas and biliary tract, duodenum-sparing pancreatic resection, pancreas-preserving excavation of pancreatic lesions; total pancreatomy with or without islet auto-transplantation; proximal (whipple) and distal pancreatectomy
- Research - pancreatic surgery, pancreatic physiology, glucose metabolism
Biography
Dana K. Andersen, M.D., FACS, chairman of the division of surgery at Johns Hopkins Bayview, earned an undergraduate and medical degree 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, the University of Chicago and Yale University, 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.
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.
Before joining the Division of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Bayview, Andersen was the Harry M. Haidak Distinguished Professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Health Care.
