William R. Jarnagin, MD holds the Enid A. Haupt Chair in surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and is Professor of Surgery at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He has served as chief of the Hepatopancreatobiliary Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering where he was also vice-chairman of the Department of Surgery.

Dr. Jarnagin has authored or co-authored 180 articles in peer-reviewed journals, over 60 chapters or invited reviews and has co-edited three textbooks. He is author of Blumgart’s Surgery of the Liver, Pancreas and Biliary Tract, 5th Edition. Dr. Jarnagin is a member of several surgical societies, including Society of University Surgeons and American College of Surgeons. He has served as a member of the American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association Executive Council on which he served as Program Chair and Treasurer.