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About Us

Our People: Physicians: Surgery

	Name:	David B. Adams, MD
	Title(s):	Head, Section of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery ; Professor of Surgery
	MD Degree:	Medical College of Virginia (1977)
	Interests:	surgical management of chronic pancreatitis, laparoscopic GI surgery, general GI surgery
	Phone:	(843) 876-4266
	E-mail:	adamsdav@musc.edu	View curriculum vitae

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	Name:	Megan Baker Ruppel, MD
	Title(s):	Assistant Professor of Surgery
	MD Degree:	Wright State University of Medicine, Ohio (1999)
	Interests:	bariatric surgery, breast cancer, general and gastrointestinal surgery
	Phone:	(843) 876-4268
	E-mail:	bakermk@musc.edu

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	Name:	T. Karl Byrne, MD
	Title(s):	Professor of Surgery
	MD Degree:	Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland (1978)
	Interests:	bariatric surgery, trauma, critical care, advanced laparoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery
	Phone:	(843) 876-4268
	E-mail:	byrnetk@musc.edu

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	Name:	E. Ramsay Camp, MD
	Title(s):	Assistant Professor of Surgery
	MD Degree:	Medical University of South Carolina (1997)
	Interests:	Surgical oncology, GI oncology including pancreas and colorectal cancer, melanoma, sarcoma, and breast cancer
	Phone:	(843) 876-4420
	E-mail:	camp@musc.edu

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	Name:	David Cole, MD
	Title(s):	Director, Division of General Surgery ; Vice Chair, Department of Surgery ; McKoy Rose Professor of Surgery
	MD Degree:	Cornell University Medical College (1986)
	Interests:	breast cancer, gastrointestinal/hepatic malignancy, cancer immunology
	Phone:	(843) 792-4638
	E-mail:	coledj@musc.edu

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	Name:	Nestor F. Esnaola, MD, MPH, MBA
	Title(s):	Associate Professor of Surgery ; Head, Section of Surgical Oncology ; Chair, Cancer Program Committee, MUSC Hollings Cancer Center
	MD Degree:	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Maryland (1993)
	Board Certs.:	American Board of Surgery (2001)
	Interests:	Gastric cancer, pancreatic cancer, gallbladder/bile duct cancer, hepatic metastases, small bowel/colon/rectal cancer, intraabdominal sarcomas
	Phone:	(843) 876-4420
	E-mail:	esnaolan@musc.edu	View curriculum vitae

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	Name:	Kerry Hammond, MD
	Title(s):	Assistant Professor of Surgery
	MD Degree:	Wake Forest University School of Medicine ()
	Interests:	surgical treatment of diseases of the colon, rectum and anus
	Phone:	(843) 792-6999
	E-mail:	hammonkl@musc.edu

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	Name:	Katherine Morgan, MD
	Title(s):	Assistant Professor of Surgery
	MD Degree:	Emory University, Georgia (1998)
	Interests:	bariatric surgery, hepatobiliary & pancreatic surgery, GI & general surgery, advanced laparoscopy
	Phone:	(843) 876-4268
	E-mail:	morganka@musc.edu

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	Name:	Rana C. Pullatt, MD, MS, MRCS
	Title(s):	Assistant Professor
	MD Degree:	Madras Medical College, India (1997)
	Interests:	general, gastrointestinal and bariatric surgery
	Phone:	(843) 876-4266
	E-mail:	pullattr@musc.edu	View curriculum vitae

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	Name:	Carolyn Reed, MD
	Title(s):	Chief, Section of General Thoracic Surgery ; Deputy Director of Clinical Affairs, Hollings Cancer Center ; Professor of Surgery
	MD Degree:	University of Rochester School of Medicine, New York (1977)
	Interests:	lung cancer, esophagael cancer
	Phone:	(843) 792-3362
	E-mail:	reedce@musc.edu

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	Name:	Peter Shamamian, MD
	Title(s):	Chief of Surgery, Ralph H. Johnson VAMC ; Vice Chair of VA Affairs ; Professor of Surgery
	MD Degree:	Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (1989)
	Interests:	abdominal malignancies and diseases of the pancreas and biliary tract
	Phone:	(843) 876-4266
	E-mail:	shamamia@musc.edu

Page last updated 07/27/2009 .