Josef E. Fischer, MD, FACS
Associate Editor

Dr. Fischer attended Harvard Medical School, graduating magnum cum laude in 1961. He interrupted residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital twice, first serving as a research associate at the National Institutes of Health from 1963-1965 with Dr. Julius Axelrod and Dr. Irwin Kopin, and again to work with Dr. K. Frank Austen at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1968.

After serving as the east service chief resident in 1969, Dr. Fischer joined the faculty at Harvard in 1970, rising to associate professor in 1975 and serving as head of the Surgical Physiological Laboratory, and chief of the Hyperalimentation Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1978, Dr. Fischer assumed the position of Christian R. Holmes Professor and chairman of the department of surgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. In 1999, Dr. Fischer assumed the additional position of Associate Dean for Community Affairs.

Dr. Fischer's principal interests are gastrointestinal surgery, metabolism, especially as it relates to sepsis, nutritional support, liver disease, and cancer anorexia and cachexia. He has contributed to more than 750 publications and has edited eight books.

He has served on councils of most surgical organizations, was president of the Halsted Society, the Surgical Infection Society, and the Central Surgical Association. He served as chairman of the American Board of Surgery in 1998, and is currently on the Residency Review Committee for Surgery.

Dr. Fischer has served as Governor and First Vice President of the American College of Surgeons and is current Chairman of the Advisory Council for General Surgery. He re-ceived the Distinguished Service Award in 1997 and in 1996, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, of which he served as President in 1995. The University of Cincinnati awarded Dr. Fischer the Award for Excellence in 1997.

He holds an honorary Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Lund, Sweden, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.

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