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Larry Kaiser, MD, FACS President & Chief Executive Officer Temple University Health System

About the Speaker:

Dr. Kaiser is the leading health sciences executive at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He serves as president and chief executive officer of the Temple University Health System, senior executive vice-president of Health Affairs, and the Lewis Katz Dean of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Prior to joining Temple University, Dr. Kaiser served as president of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, one of six health-related campuses of the University of Texas. He graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine in 1977 and completed his residency in general surgery as well as a fellowship in surgical oncology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He then completed a residency in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at the University of Toronto. Following that, he held positions as thoracic surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and assistant professor of surgery at Cornell University Medical College (New York) and as associate professor at the Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis). At the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Kaiser held a variety of positions, including chief of general thoracic surgery, founder and director of the university’s lung transplantation program, and director of its Center for Lung Cancers and Related Disorders. In 1996, he was named the Eldridge Eliason Professor of Surgery and, in 2001, was named the John Rhea Barton Professor and chair of the department of surgery as well as Surgeon in Chief for the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

Dr. Kaiser’s clinical interests include lung cancer, malignant mesothelioma, and mediastinal tumors. He is the author or co-author of 16 books and more than 300 original papers, and he serves on multiple editorial boards. Dr. Kaiser has served in a number of leadership capacities for professional societies and associations and has been a director of the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. In 2005, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.