Faculty
Faculty List for the 2024 Symposium
Program Committee
Konstantin Umanskiy, MD
Professor, Surgery
Interim Chief, Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Program Director, Colon and Rectal Surgery Residency Program
The University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, IL
Marc A. Singer, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery
Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood, IL
Bruce A. Orkin, MD
Professor, University of Central Florida & Florida State University
Professor Emeritus, Rush University
Program Director, General Surgery Residency
Digestive Health Institute, Colon & Rectal Surgery
Carle Health
Urbana, IL
Anders Mellgren, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery
University of Illinois Chicago
Chicago, IL
Invited National Faculty
Liliana Bordeianou, MD
Professor of Survery
Harvard Medical School
Chair, Colon and Rectal Surgery Program
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Robert Cleary, MD
Program Director, Colon and Rectal Surgery
Director of Research, Department of Surgery
Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital
Ann Arbor, MI
Peter Marcello, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Tufts University
Chair, Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery
Lahey Clinic
Burlington, MA
Michael F. McGee, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery
Chief of the Division of Colorectal Surgery
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Matthew G. Mutch, MD
ASCRS President
Solon and Bettie Gershman Professor of Surgery
Chief, Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
Virginia O. Shaffer, MD
Professor of Surgery
Division of Colorectal Surgery
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
David B. Stewart, MD
Professor of Surgery
Division Chief of General Surgery
Southern Illinois University
Springfield IL
Karen Zaghiyan, MD
Director, Colorectal Cancer Program
Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Program
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
Chicago Area Faculty
Mohamad Abdulhai, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Gerald Gantt, Jr, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Jan Kaminski, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Illinois Chicago
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
Chicago, IL
John R. Konen, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery
Rush University
Chicago, IL
Heather Moky, DPT
Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist
Adjunct Faculty, University of Illinois Chicago
Chicago, IL
Keith Naylor, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of Illinois Chicago
Chicago, IL
Kinga Skowron Olortegui, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
John Park, MD
Clinical Professor of Surgery
University of Illinois at Chicago
Vice-Chair, Surgery
Chief, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Associate Program Director, MIS CRS Fellowship
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital.
Park Ridge, IL
Blase Polite, MD
Professor of Medicine
Section of Hematology/Oncology
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Sriram Rangarajan, MD
North Shore Medical Group and University
Evanston, IL
Scott Strong, MD
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
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