J. Wesley Alexander,
M.D.

Title
Professor of Surgery

Specialty

• Kidney and Pancreas
  Transplantation
• General Surgery

Medical School
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

Internship
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Residency
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Fellowships

• American Cancer Society (Local Chapter, Clinical, and Advanced Clinical)
• Immunology, University of Minnesota with Dr. Robert A. Good

Experience

• Professor of Surgery (1975-)
• Associate Professor of Surgery (1969-75)
• Assistant Professor of Surgery (1966-69)
• Instructor in Surgery (1962-64)
• University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH Director, Transplantation Division 1967-99) and Surgical Immunology Laboratory (1967-)
• University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH Acting Director, Paul I. Hoxworth Blood Center of the University of Cincinnati (1972-79)
• Director of Research, Shriners Burns Institute, Cincinnati, OH (1979-91)
• NIH Study Section, Surgery, Anesthesiology & Trauma (1983-87 and 1989-93
• Chairman Study Section 1990-93) Member, Board of Directors, South Eastern Organ Procurement Foundation (1980-90)
• President and Medical Director, Ohio Valley Life Center (1981-99)
• President, Ohio Valley Tissue and Skin Center (1987-99)
• Chairman, Donations Committee, United Network for Organ Sharing (1989-93)

Professional Memberships

• American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
• American Association of Immunologists
• American Burn Association
• American College of Surgeons
• American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
• American Society of Transplantation
• American Society of Transplant Surgeons
• American Surgical Association
• Association for Academic Surgery
• Cell Transplant Society
• Central Surgical Association
• Cincinnati Academy of Medicine
• Cincinnati Surgical Society
• Halsted Society
• Immunocompromised Host Society
• International Association for Surgical Metabolism and Nutrition
• International Society for Surgery
• Mont Reid Surgical Society
• Ohio State Medical Association
• Reticuloendothelial Society
• Shock Society
• Society for Mucosal Immunology
• Society for Parenteral Alimentation
• Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
• Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Society of University Surgeons Southern
• Surgical Association
• Surgical Biology Club
• Surgical Infection Society
• Transplantation Society