GERIATRIC SURGERY - Key Persons


Dr. Warren J. Gasper

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Surgery
  • Junior Fellow
Dr. Warren J. Gasper received his medical degree at the University of Maryland. He then completed a general surgery residency and vascular surgery fellowship at the University of California San Francisco. Following residency, he completed a one year research fellowship in vascular physiology and translational research at the University of California San Francisco. Warren Gasper, M.D., junior fellow in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and a member of the research lab of Christopher Owens M.D., was awarded first prize in the poster competition at the annual meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) for the poster Percutaneous Peri-Adventitial Guanethidine Delivery Induces Renal Artery Sympathectomy: Preclinical Experience and Implication for Refractory Hypertension. One hundred researchers competed worldwide for the [...]

Emily Finlayson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Surgery and Health Policy

James C. Iannuzzi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery / Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Dr. Iannuzzi was the inaugural research fellow at the Surgical Health Outcomes and Research Enterprise at University of Rochester. In 2018, Dr. Iannuzzi completed a clinical and research fellowship in vascular and endovascular surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

Jason Powers

Job Titles:
  • Site Developer

Ruth M. Dunn

Job Titles:
  • Endowed Chair in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Sandhya Kumar

Sandhya Kumar, M.D., MIS/Bariatric Surgery clinical fellow at UCSF, presented her "Top 10" paper, Is laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy safer than laparoscopic gastric bypass? A comparison of complications and mortality using the MBSAQIP data registry, at the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) during "Obesity Week". Kumar was the lead-off presenter in the ASMBS abstracts 2017 paper sessions on October 31st. Dr. Kumar's paper headlined a strong [...]

Stanley J. Rogers

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery
  • Director of the Bariatric Surgery Center
  • Named Interim Chief of the Division of General Surgery Succeeding Dr. Hobart Harris
Stanley James Rogers, MD is Professor and Interim Division Chief of the Division of General Surgery, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Rama IX Distinguished Professor of Global Surgery, and the Ruth M. Dunn Endowed Chair in Minimally Invasive Surgery. Dr. Rogers is also Director of the Bariatric Surgery Center, Liver Tumor Ablation Program, and Minimally Invasive Surgery as well as Director of Videoendoscopic Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. He serves as a member of the clinical team at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Stanley J. Rogers, M.D., Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery and Director of Bariatric Surgery Programat University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has been invited to join the International Editorial Board of Siriraj Medical Journal, a prestigious journal which has been in existence for over six decades. The invitation, at the behest of Professor Thawatchai Akaraviputh, the journal's Editor-in-Chief, will include reviewing manuscripts and articles, and writing editorials. About [...]