March 13 Grasberger Research Symposium Lecture and Visiting Professorship

K. Craig Kent
K. Craig Kent

The Grasberger Research Symposium Lecture and Visiting Professorship is an annual research event that provides an opportunity for the surgical residents, faculty and staff to present original basic and clinical research. Now in its 24th year, the event will be held on Friday, March 13. This year’s visiting professor will be K. Craig Kent, MD, A.R. Curreri Professor of Surgery and Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin.

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K. Craig Kent, MD
Dr. Kent for the past five years has served as the A.R. Curreri Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at University of Wisconsin.  Prior to his arrival to UW, Dr. Kent was Chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital.  In 2001, following the merger of New York and Presbyterian Hospitals, Dr. Kent was asked to assume the role of Chief of the combined Columbia and Cornell Division of Vascular Surgery as well as Director of the Vascular Service Line for New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Dr. Kent received a BS from the University of Nevada and his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. He completed a General Surgery Residency at the University of California, San Francisco and a Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he was the John Homan’s Vascular Surgery Fellow. In 1988 Dr. Kent joined the faculty at Harvard as an Instructor in Surgery. After being promoted to Associate Professor, Dr. Kent was recruited in 1997 to New York Hospital/Cornell.

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