Dr. John Alverdy

Dr Alverdy is the Sarah and Harold Lincoln Thompson Professor of Surgery, Executive Vice-Chair of the department of surgery and associate director of the NIH funded Digestive Disease Research Center Core (DDRCC) at the University of Chicago. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. Dr Alverdy has been continuously RO1 funded by the NIH for over 20 years and has trained over 100 undergraduate students, graduate students, medical students and surgical research fellows in his laboratory. He studies the molecular pathogenesis of infection-related surgical complications such as sepsis, surgical site infections and anastomotic leak. He is past president of the Surgical Infection Society, past recipient of the Ravdin lectureship and Surgical Forum dedication from the American College of Surgery and recipient of the Flance-Karl Award from the American Surgical Association. He is co-founder and chief scientific officer of Covira Surgical which develops non-antibiotic polymer based anti-infective compounds to combat postoperative infection.  

Dr Alverdy attended medical school at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara and Loyola University and received his surgical training at the University of Chicago affiliated Michael Reese Hospital. He completed a surgical research fellowship at the University of California San Francisco under the mentorship of Dr George Sheldon and Donald Trunkey. Dr Alverdy has an active practice involving minimally invasive/robotic surgery of esophagus, stomach and pancreatobiliary tree.