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Member News April 2026

April 1, 2026

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Rakesh S. Arora, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FÅ˽ðÁ«´«Ã½Ó³»­

Arora Leads Northwestern Cardiothoracic Critical Care

Rakesh C. Arora, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FÅ˽ðÁ«´«Ã½Ó³»­, is director of cardiothoracic critical care at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, and a professor of surgery and anesthesia at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Previously, Dr. Arora was director of perioperative and cardiac critical care for the University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Patrick Garvey, MD, MBA, FÅ˽ðÁ«´«Ã½Ó³»­

Garvey Is Plastic Surgery Chair at Mayo Clinic in Arizona

Patrick Garvey, MD, MBA, FÅ˽ðÁ«´«Ã½Ó³»­, has taken over as chair of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. He also will serve as the associate chair of innovation and business development. Dr. Garvey previously was a complex head and neck and breast reconstructive surgeon at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

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Abbas El-Sayed Abbas, MD, MS, FÅ˽ðÁ«´«Ã½Ó³»­

Abbas Joins Catholic Health as Thoracic Surgery Chair

Abbas El-Sayed Abbas, MD, MS, FÅ˽ðÁ«´«Ã½Ó³»­, is the inaugural system chair of the Department of Thoracic Surgery and associate director of surgical oncology at Catholic Health in Rockville Centre, New York. Dr. Abbas comes from Brown Surgical Associates and The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, both in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was chief of thoracic surgery and professor of surgery, teaching scholar, respectively.

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James S. Ferriss, MD, FÅ˽ðÁ«´«Ã½Ó³»­

Ferriss Takes Over Gynecologic Surgical Oncology at Fox Chase

James S. Ferriss, MD, FÅ˽ðÁ«´«Ã½Ó³»­, is system chief of gynecologic surgical oncology at Temple Health and Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Ferriss also will be an associate professor of gynecologic oncology. Most recently, he served as fellowship program director in gynecologic oncology and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Have you or an ACSmember you know achieved a notable career highlight recently? If so, send potential contributions to Jennifer Bagley, MA, Bulletin Editor-in-Chief, at jbagley@facs.org. Submissions will be printed based on content type and available space.