Surgery Faculty
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The full-time surgical faculty is primarily responsible for the education of the resident staff. All full-time faculty members have joint appointments with the medical school's Department of Surgery and the William Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans Affairs Hospital (DVAH). They supervise resident clinical activity at both institutions. Clinical faculty from the private practice community compliments faculty-teaching efforts, particularly in the surgical specialties.
Education, at all levels, is the priority for all faculty members. Quality patient care is the center of the teaching effort at both hospitals. Ward rounds, group discussions, on-on-one faculty resident interaction and intraoperative exposure are the vehicles of the educational process.
Residents choose a faculty advisor each year. The faculty advisor assists the resident in developing performance objectives, designing the required yearly independent research activity and monitors the resident's progress through the training curriculum. Resident participation in either clinical or basic science research is required each year.
Faculty interest in clinical and basic science investigation is diverse and all members welcome resident participation. Opportunities exist for residents to develop their own particular research interests and design their own projects. The USC School of Medicine Basic Science Divisions, in addition to the clinical faculty, offer substantial resources and expertise to assist the resident in bringing their ideas to fruition. A list of current research activities is updated annually and provided to interested applicants during the interview process.
The Full-time Surgical Faculty – University of South Carolina School of Medicine
| Faculty | Surgical Training | Boarded (current) | Years on Faculty | Research Interests |
| R. Stephen Smith, MD Professor and Chairman |
Residency: University of Kansas | General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care |
1 |
Trauma, surgical critical care, ultrasound in surgery |
| Raymond P. Bynoe, MD Director Trauma Services |
USC/Palmetto Health Richland; General/University of Tennessee, Memphis | General Surgery | 28 | Trauma/critical care Stress ulcer prophylaxis Multi-institutional trials |
| Elliott Chen, MD | Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York; Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
General Surgery | 3 | Craniofacial surgery, pediatric plastic surgery, cleft care, facial trauma, adult reconstruction, and wound healing |
| Harold I. Friedman, MD, PhD Chief, Plastic Surgery |
University of Virginia | Plastic Surgery | 27 | Capsular contraction blood substitutes |
| Robert R.M. Gifford, MD | University of Minnesota | General Surgery | 16 | Vascular surgery |
| Benjamin McIntyre, MD | University of Cincinnati; University of Virginia; Wellington Regional Plastic, Burn and Maxillofacial Unit (New Zealand) | Plastic Surgery | 1 | Outcomes in microsurgery, Outcomes/survival in head and neck cancer |
| James E. Morrison, MD Director, Critical Care Fellowship |
University of California | General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care | 9 | Trauma/critical care, Intravenous fat emulsions, Syncope in Trauma |
| Fernando A. Navarro, MD | Boston University, Maine Medical Center, Carolinas Medical Center | General Surgery | 1 | Minimal access, robotics, surgical simulation, wound healing |
| James M. Nottingham, MD | USC/Palmetto Health Richland | General Surgery | 12 | Minimally invasive surgery, neural networks, outcome prediction |
| Dorn VA Faculty | Surgical Training | Boarded (current) | # Years on Faculty | Research Interests |
| J. Jeffery Brown, MD Asst. Program Director Chief Surgical Service DVAH |
Bowman Gray | General Surgery | 30 | Surgical infections, Hyperbaric medicine, Endocrine surgery |
| Theodore J. Bunt, MD | University of Michigan | General Surgery and General Vascular Surgery |
9 | Vascular Surgery Vascular Trauma |