Bruce L. Gewertz

He holds the position of Surgeon-in-Chief, Chair of the Department of Surgery, Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs and Vice-president for Interventional Services at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles.

Following his graduation from medical school in 1972, Dr. Gewertz 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.

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.

Since moving to Cedars-Sinai in 2006, the department has more than doubled in size and increased its ranking in NIH funds from 100th in the country to approximately 20th.