Professor and Interim Chair
Chair, American Board of Surgery
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Encino, California, United States
Dr. Joe Hines is the Professor and Interim Chair of the UCLA Department of Surgery, Chair of the American Board of Surgery, President of the American Pancreatic Association, and President of the Society of University Surgeons Foundation. Dr. Hines attended the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, trained in general surgery at UCLA, including two years of research in gastrointestinal physiology, and was then recruited to the UCLA faculty in 1997. While at UCLA he has received the Department Golden Scalpel Award for teaching excellence twelve times and the UCLA School of Medicine Award for Excellence in Education. His research has focused on angiogenesis, cytokines, and pancreatic carcinogenesis, including the role of diet in modulating these processes. He served on the NIH Scientific Review Committee Tumor Progression and Metastasis. Dr. Hines was awarded the American College of Surgeons Traveling Fellowship to Germany in 2005, and was a James IV Traveling Fellow in 2011. He is past-President of the Society of University Surgeons and has served as the Vice-President of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, President of the Southern California Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, and was appointed to the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons. He serves on the editorial boards of Surgery, Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, JAMA Surgery, Annals of Surgery, and is an editor of Maignot’s Abdominal Operations.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Friday, March 11, 2022
10:28 AM – 10:38 AM CST