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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 2002

Daniel James Vargo, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - Surgical Critical Care
  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Am Medical Association
  • Southwestern Surg Cong
  • Assn for Surg Ed
  • Assoc of Prog Dir in Surg
  • Am Assn for Surg of Traum
  • Southwestern Surg Cong

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

General Surgery

Contact Information

Biography

General abdominal surgery with a focus on complex abdominal wall surgery, prosthetic infection, and fistula management. Acute care surgery, both trauma and emergency general surgery

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Hernia Procedures

  • abdominal hernia
  • component separation
  • epigastric hernia
  • femoral hernia
  • inguinal hernia
  • laparoscopic hernia repair
  • umbilical hernia
  • ventral hernia

Trauma/Injury Procedures

  • abdominal injuries
  • abdominal wall reconstruction

Hospital Appointments

Univ Utah Hosp.

Salt Lake City, UT,

Attending

08/2000—Present

Academic Appointments

University of California, Davis, School of Medicine

Sacramento, CA

Clinical Instructor

07/1999—06/2000

University of Utah School of Medicine

Salt Lake City, UT

Associate Professor

08/2000—Present