Dr. Fisher Inducted as Fellow of American Surgical Association

April May 9, 2019

William E. Fisher, M.D., professor and chief of the Division of General Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, was elected into the American Surgical Association at the 2018 annual meeting. He was presented as a fellow at the association’s 139^th annual meeting, which took place April 11-13, 2019, in Dallas, Texas.

The American Surgical Association was founded in 1880 and is the nation's oldest and most prestigious surgical organization. Its members include the nation’s most prominent surgeons from the country's leading academic medical institutions, many of whom are Chairs of the Departments of Surgery at these institutions. Membership also includes leading surgeons from around the world, making it much more than an American association.

Dr. Fisher is the George L. Jordan, M.D. chair in General Surgery and director of the Elkins Pancreas Center at Baylor College of Medicine. He has been a member of Baylor faculty since 1998, and in that time, he has built one of the largest clinical programs for the surgical treatment of pancreatic disease in the Houston area. Dr. Fisher is internationally known for his clinical work as a pancreatic surgeon, basic science researcher, and clinical researcher in pancreatic cancer. He has collaborated on projects examining the role PDX-1 as an oncogene, gene therapy, oncolytic virotherapy, vaccination with virus-like particles, and adoptive immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer. Dr. Fisher is also actively collaborating with investigators in the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine on studies sequencing the genome of pancreatic cancer.