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Bruce L. Gewertz is Surgeon-in-Chief, Chair of the Department of Surgery and Vice-President for Interventional Services at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles. Previously, he was on the faculty at the University of Chicago for 25 years, serving as the Dallas B. Phemister Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery from 1992 until 2006. He was educated at Pennsylvania State University and Jefferson Medical College in the combined BS-MD five year program. He trained in general and vascular surgery at the University of Michigan. Dr. Gewertz is the author of more than 200 original articles, book chapters and books. His principal clinical and research interests include mesenteric ischemia, cerebrovascular disease and aortic aneurysmal disease. Dr. Gewertz has received numerous awards for his basic investigations and teaching and was selected Outstanding Science Alumnus in 2003 and Alumni Fellow in 2009. A large number of invited and named lectureships throughout the years have addressed a broad range of topics in vascular disease and physiology as well as the challenges facing academic medicine. Dr. Gewertz enjoys fitness training, skiing and golf. In 1993, he served as script consultant and medical advisor for the film The Fugitive and was included in the film in a small part that inexplicably survived the editing process. Most viewers have agreed that recognition of his modest dramatic effort by friends and colleagues was wildly disproportionate to its length. He and his wife Diane most value time with their five children, grandchildren and energetic Wheaton terrier.