At AIS, we believe in facilitating free remote access to excellent surgical contents (synchronous and on-demand) provided by the best international surgeons. This is the starting point to rewrite the rules of training and learning through the use of tools that combine technology and innovation. We believe in democratizing surgical and medical knowledge!
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Dr. Mark Whiteford is a minimally invasive colon and rectal surgeon with the Center for Advanced Surgery Division of The Oregon Clinic. He attended medical school at University of Maryland, completed his general surgery training at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, then his colon and rectal surgery residency at Washington University, St. Louis.
In 2008, he was awarded the ASCRS/ACPGBI Traveling Fellowship where he spent time at St. Mark’s Hospital and at Oxford. Currently, he is the Director of Colorectal Surgery as well as Rectal Cancer Program Director for the NAPRC Accredited Providence Cancer Institute at Providence Portland Medical Center. He holds the academic appointment of Affiliate Professor of Surgery at Oregon Health Sciences University.
He is a clinician-educator who has worked on numerous committees within ASCRS, SAGES, and NAPRC, has published over 50 peer-reviewed publications, a dozen book chapters, has been an invited lecturer in 13 countries around the world, and is an associate examiner for the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery. His main professional and scientific interests focus on advanced laparoscopic colon and rectal surgery, rectal cancer, transanal endoscopic surgery, transanal TME, surgical education, and physician wellness.