Keith D. Lillemoe received his MD from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and served his entire surgical training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He joined the faculty at Hopkins and rose to the rank of Professor of Surgery. In 2003, he was appointed the Jay L.

Grosfeld Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In 2011, Dr. Lillemoe was appointed to the position of Surgeon-in-Chief and Chief of the Department of Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the W. Gerald Austen Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Lillemoe has previously served as President of the Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, the Society of Clinical Surgery, the Society of University Surgeons, the Halsted Society, and the American Surgical Association. Dr.Lillemoe has also been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the American College of Surgeons Academy of Master Surgeon Educators, was the recipient of the Society of University Surgeons Lifetime Achievement Award and named the Distinguished Alumnus from both the University of South Dakota Schoolof Medicine and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Dr. Lillemoe’s bibliography lists over 560 journal articles and 145 book chapters. He has served as a visiting professor over 125 times and has spoken nationally and internationally on over 530 occasions. He is the Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Surgery.