Orlando C. Kirton, chair and surgeon-in-chief in the department of surgery at Jefferson Abington Hospital, has been appointed president of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery. In addition to these roles, he also serves as professor of surgery at Thomas Jefferson University and has held positions in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps, the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He has received numerous teaching awards and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters, and abstracts on surgical critical care, trauma, and surgical education.
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Class of 1979