Bruce Gewertz MD

Bruce Gewertz MD General Information

Biography

Dr. Bruce Gewertz served as a Board Member at Summation Health Ventures. He served as a Board Member at Gauss Surgical. He serves as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs & Vice President for Interventional Services at Cedars-Sinai. He serves as Chairman at PreferUS Healthcare. He served as Surgeon-in-Chief, Chair of the Department of Surgery, Vice-President for Interventional Services, and Vice-Dean of Academic Affairs at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles. He also holds the H & S Nichols Distinguished Chair in Surgery. He was educated at Pennsylvania State University and Jefferson Medical College in the combined bachelor of science-medical degree five-year program. Following his graduation from medical school in 1972, he trained in general and vascular surgery at the University of Michigan. From 1977 to 1981, he served on the faculty at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. He moved to the University of Chicago in 1981, where he remained until 2006. From 1989 to 1992, he served as the first Faculty Dean of Medical Education at the University of Chicago, leading a revision of the undergraduate medical school curriculum funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 1992, he was named Dallas B. Phemister Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, and served in this position for 14 years. His recruitment of outstanding clinicians and surgical scientists to Chicago during that era allowed the department to increase its basic and clinical research funding more than three-fold.