Brown Surgical Associates physicians were honored to have Dr. Thomas F. Tracy, Jr. serve as the keynote speaker for the 2023 Frank DeLuca, MD Distinguished Lectureship in Surgical Sciences.
Dr. Tracy – the executive director of the American Pediatric Surgical Association and an adjunct professor of surgery and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University – gave a presentation on “The Past and Future of Biliary Atresia” and another on leadership and surgeon executives.
Brown Surgical Associates President William G. Cioffi, MD served as the program director of the conference, which highlighted some of the ongoing clinical research in the Department of Surgery at Rhode Island Hospital.
Dr. Tracy is the author of more than 130 scientific publications and serves on numerous editorial boards. He is a member of leading national and international organizations, including Alpha Omega Alpha, the Society of University Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, and the Halsted Surgical Society. He has served on the Board of Governors of the American Pediatric Surgical Association and the Foundation Board of the Society of University Surgeons; he has chaired the Advisory Council for Pediatric Surgery of the American College of Surgeons and its Advisory Councils board. He served on the Children’s Hospital Association’s task force for children’s surgical care to outline optimal resources for the surgical care of children in the United States. He has had a longstanding commitment to the New England Surgical Society, serving as its President from 2011 to 2012.
The annual lectureship is named in honor of the late Frank G. DeLuca, MD, a clinical professor of surgery, emeritus at Brown Medical School who served as Pediatric Surgeon-in-Chief at Rhode Island Hospital from 1967-1997.
Pediatric Surgery in Rhode Island and Southern New England was central to Frank DeLuca’s personal and professional life and his contributions to resident and medical student training will be remembered. In acknowledgment of Dr. DeLuca’s many contributions, Rhode Island Hospital developed the Frank G. DeLuca, MD Endowment for Pediatric Surgical Research and Education. This Endowment was designed to be a lasting tribute to Dr. DeLuca’s contributions in Pediatric Surgery, and to carry forward his goals of extending the research and educational mission of Hasbro Children’s Hospital and the Department of Surgery at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
