General Surgery
Dr. Vollmer is the Chief of the Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, and the Director of Pancreatic Surgery at Penn Medicine. He also serves as the founding Co-Director of the Penn Pancreatic Cyst Multidisciplinary Program.
His practice at Penn Medicine encompasses both malignant and benign conditions of the pancreas and biliary system with a strong emphasis in care of pancreatic cancer, cysts, and pancreatitis.
He specializes in Pancreaticobiliary and other complex gastrointestinal surgery with a research focus in clinical outcomes assessment in high-acuity surgery – especially pancreatic fistula. He has authored over 190 manuscripts, 40 book chapters, and 3 books focusing on pancreaticobiliary diseases. He is active in multiple national and international surgical societies where he has served in numerous leadership positions including President of the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA) in 2019. He also currently sits on the Executive Committee of the IHPBA as its Treasurer-elect and was its Scientific Program Chair for the 2016 World Congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
He is a reviewer for numerous surgical specialty journals and is on the Editorial Boards of Annals of Surgery, British Journal of Surgery, Annals of Surgical Oncology, Surgery, HPB, the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Langenbeck’s Archives of Surgery, and the Journal of Surgical Oncology. He is a member of the American Surgical Society, Society of Clinical Surgeons, and the Surgical Biology Club II. In 2008, he was honored to be the Josef Fischer Traveling Fellow in Academic Surgery for the Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) – an opportunity which allowed him to tour many of the top pancreatic surgical programs in Europe.
Education:
Dr. Vollmer’s collegiate education was at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He then received his MD degree from Jefferson Medical College in his hometown of Philadelphia. From there he received general surgical training at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital of the Washington University of St. Louis where he was elected into Alpha Omega Alpha. He studied gene therapy as a surgical oncology research fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the middle of his clinical training. After Chief Residency at Washington University, he matriculated to the internationally acclaimed Hepatobiliary and Solid Organ Transplantation Surgery Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He initiated his career as an attending surgeon at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School (2003 -2011).
Recognized by Best Doctors in America 2015 - 2018
A general surgeon is a medical professional who performs surgery on patients. General surgeons typically perform common surgeries and have attended college and medical school to learn the skills needed to perform them successfully. They also care for their patients before and after operations and can give an accurate prognosis after the surgery is complete and the patient has had time to heal.
Credentials
MDGender
MaleGraduation year
1994Years of experience
30Professional School
Jefferson Medical CollegeResidency
Barnes-Jewish Hospital - Washington University, St. Louis3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA
2153165151
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