Dr. Sherry Wren

Sherry M. Wren, MD, FACS, FCS (ECSA), FISS, is a Professor of Surgery and Director of Global Surgery at the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University School of Medicine. She also serves as the Director of Clinical Surgery and Chief of General Surgery at the Palo Alto Veterans Health Care System. She is the current Secretary of the American College of Surgeons, Professor Extraordinary at the Centre for Global Surgery, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, former Honorary Professor at the Centre for Trauma at the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, and Adjunct Professor at Uniformed Health Services University in Bethesda, MD. 

Dr. Wren received her MD from Loyola Stritch School of Medicine. Her postgraduate training included a general surgery residency at Yale and the University of Pittsburgh; research fellowships in Transplant Immunology at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Pittsburgh, and a clinical fellowship in Hepatobiliary Surgery at Los Angeles the County/University of Southern California.

Dr. Wren is a member and in the leadership of numerous national and international organizations and has served on the boards of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons Foundation, and other surgical societies.   She is the Editor in Chief of the World Journal of Surgery and servers or has served on the editorial boards of JAMA Surgery, Surgical Endoscopy, Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques, and the Journal of East and Central African Journal of Surgery.

Her clinical and research interests, publications, and funded projects include Public Health and Global Surgery Research, Transplant Immunology, Surgical Systems and Technology, Surgical Robotics, Medical Education, Health Services Research, Trauma and Injury, and GI Cancers. Her clinical focus is primarily on gastrointestinal malignancy and surgical robotics.  Dr. Wren has also worked with Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières and was awarded the 2017 American College of Surgeons International Surgical Volunteerism Award.