Keith D. Lillemoe

Dr. Keith D. Lillemoe received his undergraduate education at the University of South Dakota and his MD from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1978. He served his surgical training at Hopkins and joined the faculty there in 1985, rising to the rank of Professor of Surgery in 1996. He served as Associate Program Director for the Hopkins Surgical Residency from 1993 to 2003 and Vice-Chairman of the department from 1997 to 2003. He was recognized with the Hopkins Department of Surgery Faculty Teaching Award on five occasions. In 2003, he was appointed the Jay L. Grosfeld Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In May 2011, Dr. Lillemoe was appointed to the position of Surgeon-in-Chief and Chief of the Department of Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the W. Gerald Austen Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Lillemoe has served as President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. He has served as President of the Society of Clinical Surgery, and of the Society of University Surgeons, and as the Recorder and President of the American Surgical Association. In 2018, he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine and the American College of Surgeons Academy of Master Surgeon Educators. He is a Senior Director of the American Board of Surgery. He is also the recipient of the Harvard Joseph B. Martin Dean's Award for Mentorship of Women and selected as an Honorary Member of the Association of Women Surgeons.

Dr. Lillemoe’s clinical research interests are in pancreatic cancer, IPMNs, and other benign pancreatic disorders and biliary tract injuries. His bibliography lists over 500 journal articles and 140 book chapters. He has served as a visiting professor over 120 times and has spoken nationally and internationally on over 500 occasions. He is the former Editor of one of the leading surgical texts Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice and is Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Surgery.