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William R. Jarnagin, MD

Chief of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
New York, New York, United States

Dr. William R. Jarnagin, Chief HPB Surgery and Leslie H. Blumgart Chair in Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Professor of Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
Dr. William R. Jarnagin earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Dartmouth College in 1982, a Master’s degree in chemistry from Brandeis University in 1984 and an MD from Rush Medical College in 1988. He completed his training in general surgery at the University of California, San Francisco in 1996. From 1990-93, he completed a research fellowship at the Liver Center Laboratory at San Francisco General Hospital. From 1996-97, he served as the Hepatobiliary Fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). Since 1997, he has been an attending surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he has served as Chief of the Hepatopancreatobiliary Service since 2008 and was a Vice-Chairman of the Department of Surgery from 2006-2010. He holds the Leslie H. Blumgart, M.D. Chair in Surgical Oncology and is Professor of Surgery at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
Dr. Jarnagin’s research has focused on genomics, novel therapies and biomarkers of treatment response in patients with biliary tract cancer, intraoperative navigation systems, and improvements in intraoperative management during major liver and pancreas resection. He serves as the PI of two NIH-supported grants investigating treatment of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and intraoperative navigation for hepatic surgery. He has authored or co-authored over 500 articles in peer-reviewed journals, over 75 book chapters or invited reviews and has co-edited four textbooks. He serves as the senior editor of ‘Blumgart’s Surgery of the Liver, Biliary Tract and Pancreas.’ He has served as the HPB Section Editor for Annals of Surgical Oncology and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, HPB and the European Journal of Surgical Research. In addition to the IHPBA and AHPBA, he is a member of several surgical societies, including SUS and ASA. He was a member of the AHPBA Executive Council for over 10 years, serving as the Program Chair (2007-08), Treasurer (2009-11), President (2011-2012); he currently the Past-President of the IHPBA and the President-Elect of the IHPBA Foundation.

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