Dr. William R. Jarnagin is Chief of the Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and holds the Enid A. Haupt Chair in Surgery, positions that put him at the helm of one of the highest-volume HPB programs in the United States. He has served as President of the Americas HPB Association (AHPBA) and, more recently, was elected Treasurer of the International HPB Association, expanding his influence on operative standards and training worldwide.
A Dartmouth chemistry graduate who earned his MD at Rush Medical College before completing general-surgery residency at UCSF and an HPB fellowship at MSK, Dr. Jarnagin blends rigorous scientific training with three decades of clinical practice. His bibliography has hundreds of peer-reviewed papers, and he is senior editor of Blumgart’s Surgery of the Liver, Biliary Tract, and Pancreas, long regarded as the definitive reference for the field. Under his leadership the MSK HPB team performs roughly a thousand liver, bile-duct, gall-bladder, and pancreatic operations each year, a caseload that allows evidence-based protocols to mature rapidly from concept to standard of care.
International lecture invitations, from the Royal College of Surgeons to the Japanese Surgical Society, reflect peers’ recognition of his expertise, while service in the U.S. Naval Reserve underscores a parallel commitment to public service. Dr. Jarnagin’s administrative reach now includes vice-chair responsibilities for surgical education and research at MSK, where he mentors fellows on clinical-trial design and translational grant writing. Continuous leadership in professional societies, the endowed Blumgart chair, and NIH funding for image-guided liver surgery confirm his status as a driving force in HPB oncology.
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