Wiley “Chip” Souba has served as Dean of Medicine and Vice-President for Health Affairs at two universities, Dartmouth and Ohio State. He has also served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Penn State, Chief of Surgical Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Surgery at University of Florida.
Souba is a summa cum laude graduate of Muskingum College and an AOA graduate of the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, where he also did his general surgery training. During his surgical residency, Souba completed a fellowship in surgical research at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and earned a Doctorate in Science in Nutritional Biochemistry at the Harvard School of Public Health. He subsequently did a fellowship in Surgical Oncology at the MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute in Houston, Texas. While in Boston, Souba earned his MBA with high honors at the Boston University College of Business.
Souba’s clinical interests are in surgical oncology. He has been regularly ranked as one of The Best Doctors in America by his peers and has been recognized for his clinical expertise by Boston Magazine. He was funded by the National Institute of Health for 20 years to study amino acid metabolism in catabolic diseases. He has published 320 articles in peer-reviewed journals, has served as Editorial Chair of American College of Surgeons Surgery, and is Co-editor of the Journal of Surgical Research.
He is married with two children and lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.
The Wiley Souba, MD Oral History (0.25 linear feet) contains the video of the oral history conducted May 10, 2017 by E. Christopher Ellison.
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