Robert S. Rhodes, MD

Dr. Rhodes is currently an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. He was born and raised in Greater New York and attended Cornell University. Dr. Rhodes received an M.D. degree, cum laude, from SUNY-Upstate and completed a residency in Surgery at Case Western Reserve University. His medical training also includes a two-year research fellowship at Harvard Medical School. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery in both General Surgery and Vascular Surgery.

After two years of military duty, Dr. Rhodes returned to Cleveland on the Case Western Reserve University faculty and rose through the ranks to Professor. In 1988, he became the James D. Hardy Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

Dr. Rhodes is on several editorial boards and holds or has held leadership positions in many surgical organizations, including his current role as the Associate Executive Director and Director of Evaluation for the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Rhodes also has a longstanding interest in surgical education and in health care policy. He participated as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow in Health Care Financing and was a physician advisor to SANUS, the HMO subsidiary of New York Life. He also has been interested in the risks of transmission of bloodborne pathogens.