Background
Kauffman, Gordon Lee was born on March 30, 1946 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Gordon Lee Senior and Jeanne (Klunder) Kauffman.
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Gordon Lee Kauffman
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Gordon Lee Kauffman, American Surgeon, educator. Diplomate National Board Medical Examiners, American Board Surgery. Grantee Council Tobacco Research, 1969, VA, 1980-1985; Galens Foreign fellow, 1971, Medical Assistance Program Foreign fellow, 1971, Frederick Coller resident fellow, 1976, James IV fellow, 1991.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Wheaton College, 1968; Doctor of Medicine, University of Michigan, 1972.
Career
Resident in surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1972-1977;
research associate, VA Wadsworth, Los Angeles, 1977-1980;
staff surgeon, VA Wadsworth, Los Angeles, 1977-1985;
assistant professor surgery, University of California at Los Angeles School Medicine, 1979-1983;
associate professor, University of California at Los Angeles School Medicine, 1983-1985;
professor surgery and physiology, chief division general surgery, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, since 1985;
vice department chairman surgery, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, since 1994. Investigator Center for Ulcer Research and Education, Los Angeles, 1979-1981, key investigator, 1981-1985. Consultant City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, 1982-1985, Harbor General Hospital, Torrance, California, 1983-1985.
Member committee American Board Surgery. Member surgery and bioengineering study section National Institutes of Health, 1990-1994, member consensus development panel on helicobacterpylori, 1994.
Achievements
Membership
Member American College of Surgeons (secretary-treasurer central Pennsylvania chapter 1990-1996), Association Academy Surgery (chairman education committee 1985-1987), American Federation for Clinical Research, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Gastroenterol. Association (chairman abstract review committee 1986-1987, 95-96), Society University Surgeons (Chairman of Commission on publications), Society Surgery of Alimentary Tract (nominating committee 1990, publication committee 1991-1993, chairman 1994, recorder since 1994), Frederick A. Coller Surgical Society, Society Critical Care Medicine, Collegium International Chirurgiae Digestivae, Surgical Biology Club I, Society Clinical Surgery (membership committee 1992-1995, Chairman.1995-1996), Century, Central Surgical Society (councilman at large 1995-1996), American Surgical Association (membership advising committee 1993-1997).
Connections
Married Christie Lyn VanSweden, June 28, 1969. Children: Gordon Lee III, Christian Anthony.
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Nationality
American
Awards
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Grantee Council Tobacco Research, 1969, VA, 1980-1985. Galens Foreign fellow, 1971, Medical Assistance Program Foreign fellow, 1971, Frederick Coller resident fellow, 1976, James IV fellow, 1991.Grantee Council Tobacco Research, 1969, VA, 1980-1985. Galens Foreign fellow, 1971, Medical Assistance Program Foreign fellow, 1971, Frederick Coller resident fellow, 1976, James IV fellow, 1991.