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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 1986

Richard B. Wait, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Amer Surg Assn
  • New England Surg Soc
  • Soc for Surg Alim Tract
  • Assn for Acad Surg
  • Soc of Univ Surg
  • Assoc of Prog Dir in Surg
  • Assn for Surg Ed
  • Am Soc of Breast Surgeons
  • Am Soc of Genl Surgeons
  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs

Additional Information

Gender

Male

General Surgery

740 Lagoon Dr

North Palm Beach, FL 33408

United States

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Breast Disease/Cancer

Endocrine (Gland)

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

Minimal Access Surgery

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

Hospital Appointments

University Hospital of Brooklyn

Brooklyn, NY,

Chairman

01/1992—01/1998

King's County Hospital Center

Brooklyn, NY,

Chief

01/1992—01/1998

Baystate Medical Center

Springfield, MA 0119, MA

Chairman

01/1998—04/2014

Academic Appointments

SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine

Brooklyn, NY

Chairman

01/1992—01/1998

Tufts University School of Medicine

Boston, MA

Professor

01/1998—Present