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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: William P. Schecter, M.D.
CURRENT TITLE: Professor of Clinical Surgery
DEPARTMENT: University of California, San Francisco
School of Medicine
EDUCATION:
1964-1968 Harpur College A.B. Political Science
State University of New York Magna Cum Laude
1968-1972 The Albany Medical College M.D. Medicine
1972-1973 San Francisco General Hospital Internship Rotating
1973-1975 Massachusetts General Hospital Resident Anesthesia
1976-1979 University of California, San Francisco Resident Surgery
1979-1980 San Francisco Hand Fellowship Fellow Hand Surgery
LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, ETC.:
1973 Medical License State of Massachusetts
1973 Diplomate National Board of National Examiners
1975 Fellow American College of Anesthesiology
1976 Medical License California #G032859
1978 Diplomate American Board of Anesthesiology
1980 Diplomate American Board of Surgery, Number 25772, Issued: 3/12/80
1987 Subspecialty Certification Critical Care Medicine, American Board of Surgery,
Number 153, Issued 4/9/87
1987 Fellow American College of Surgeons
1990 Recertification American Board of Surgery
1996 Subspecialty Recertification Critical Care Medicine, American Board of Surgery
1996 Recertification Added Qualifications in Surgical Critical Care
1998 Recertification American Board of Surgery
2004 Recertification American Board of Surgery, Issued, 8/9/04, Exp. 7/1/15
2004 Recertification Added Qualifications in Surgical Critical Care
Issued 8/11/04, Exp. 7/1/15
PRINCIPAL POSITIONS HELD:
1980-81 University of California, San Francisco Assistant Clinical
San Francisco General Hospital Professor of Surgery
1981-83 LBJ Tropical Medical Center Chief of Surgery
Pago Pago, American Samoa
1983-84 University of Natal, Department of Surgery Lecturer in Surgery
Faculty of Medicine, South Africa
1984-1990 University of California, San Francisco Assistant Clinical Professor
1992-1993 San Francisco General Hospital Acting Chief of Surgery
1990-1993 University of California, San Francisco Associate Clinical Professor
1993-Present University of California, San Francisco Professor of Clinical Surgery
1993-2008 University of California, San Francisco/S.F.G.H. Chief of Surgery
1993-2008 University of California, San Francisco Vice-Chair, S.F.G.H.
1/2004-7/2004 Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel Visiting Professorship
OTHER POSITIONS HELD CONCURRENTLY:
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1980-81 San Francisco General Hospital Attending Surgeon
1980-81 Emergency Services, San Francisco General Hospital Associate Director
1980-81 Hand Surgery Service, San Francisco General Hospital Associate Director
1981-83 LBJ Tropical Medical Center, Pago Pago, Am. Samoa Lecturer in Surgery
1983-84 King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban, Republic of So. Africa Consultant Surgeon
1984-90 Hand Clinic, San Francisco General Hospital Associate Director
1984 San Francisco General Hospital Attending Surgeon
1984-1990 Intensive Care Unit, San Francisco General Hospital Associate Director
1985-1990 Amputation Clinic, San Francisco General Hospital Co-Director
1995 California College of Podiatric Medicine Adjunct Professor
HONORS AND AWARDS
1972 Alpha Omega Alpha
1989 Young Investigator Travel Award. Senior Author: Crombleholme T, Schecter W, Wilson
W: Anal carcinoma: Changes in incidence, natural history and treatment: A 26 year
review of a UCSF-SFGH Experience. This paper was awarded the 1989-1990 American
Society for Clinical Oncology, May 23, 1989.
1990 Senior Author: Lorenz P, Wilson W, Leigh B, Schecter WP: Kaposi's Sarcoma of the
Rectum in AIDS Patients. This paper was awarded a certificate of Merit Honors for
Scientific Essay at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Surgical Congress, June
25, 1990.
1996 Certificate of Appreciation, Israel Trauma Society, June 26, 1996
1998 Chai Award for Public Service, Jack Berman Advocacy Center, American Jewish
Congress
1999 Nominee, 1999 Giving Something Back Award—Honoring Exemplary Non-Profit Board
Members. Given by the Management Center and the Charles Schwaab Foundation
2002 Distinguished Alumnus, The Albany Medical College
2002 Nova Award, American Hospital Association, awarded to Operation Access for Service to
the Uninsured.
2003 Distinguished Colleague of the Year, 2002, UCSF Department of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery, San Francisco, CA.
2003 Honoree, Operation Access, San Francisco, CA, September 18, 2003.
2006 AMA 2006 Pride in the Profession Award, American Medical Association, March 12, 2006
2006 Friends of Nursing at San Francisco General Hospital, May 10, 2006
2006 The Robert Lull, M.D. Award For Excellent In Consultation to the Medical Service,
San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA, July 11, 2006.
2007 Heroes & Hearts Award, San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, February 14, 2007.
2007 Honorary Membership, Israel Medical Association, for services during the Lebanon War,
2006. 18th Israeli Medical Association World Fellowship International Conference in
Jerusalem, April 11-15, 2007.
2007 Key Note Speaker: U.C.S.F. Medical School Graduation.
2007 Honorary Member, Israel Surgical Association, June 6-7, 2007.
2007 Nominee, UCSF Class of 2007 Faculty Teaching Award.
2007 Order of Merit, The Society for Medicine and Law in Israel, for service during the 2006
Lebanon War
2007 Alpha Omega Alpha – Visiting Professor, Theta of New York. Albany Medical College,
New York City, NY.
2007 Key Note Speaker. ―Think globally, act locally‖. UCSF-Mt. Zion, Global Health, May 7,
2008.
2008 Commencement Speaker. Loyola University Medical School Graduation, June 1, 2008.
2008 First Prize. Scientific Poster Competition, 2008 Clinical Congress, American College of
Surgeons, San Francisco. Einav S, Schecter W, Amtot I, Horn JK, Hirsch M, Reissman
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P, Spira RM. Case Managers in multiple casualty incidents.
KEYWORDS/AREAS OF INTEREST:
The surgery of poverty, trauma, soft tissue infections related to drug use and alcoholism, advanced
malignancy related to poor access to health care, the surgical treatment of HIV infected patients, and
medical management of chemical and biological warfare in mass casualty events.
SUMMARY OF CLINICAL ACTIVITIES:
Clinical: I attend the Trauma/General Surgery Clinic on Monday morning from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.
On Wednesday afternoons, I attend the Vascular Surgery clinic from 1:00-4:00 p.m. I have covered the
Vascular Clinic since September 1, 2005 when we lost our vascular surgeon. I will continue in this activity
until a new vascular surgeon is recruited. I attend as Service attending 6-8 weeks per year. This activity
involves making rounds from approximately 6:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. daily during the weeks when I am the
Service attending. I also make evening rounds on the entire service during this time. I also perform
emergency General Surgery and Trauma Surgery on my on-call days and on other days as necessary. In
addition, I have an elective surgery practice in the field of General Surgery.
Attending: I am actively involved interacting with the residents on a daily basis whether or not I am on
Service. As mentioned, I take Service call 6-8 weeks per year. I also take 2-4 nights/month of 24-hour
emergency call.
Summary of Clinical Activities: I am an active General and Trauma Surgeon in a full time clinical
practice.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Memberships
1975-80 American Society of Anesthesiologists
1980-06 Howard C. Naffziger Surgical Society
1982-06 Society of Critical Care Medicine
1985-06 Association for Academic Surgery
1985-06 San Francisco Surgical Society
1986-05 California Academy of Medicine
1987-05 American Society for Surgery of the Hand
1987-06 Fellow, American College of Surgeons
1988-95 Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians
1989-95 Fellow, American Society of Clinical Oncology
1989-06 Fellow, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
1989-06 Fellow, Southwestern Surgical Congress
2002-06 Charter Member, Claude H. Organ, Jr., Surgical Society
2003-06 Western Surgical Association
2004-06 American Surgical Association
Service to Professional Organizations:
1985-1986 American Board of Surgery, Associate Examiner
1988 American Board of Surgery Associate Examiner
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1993 American Board of Surgery Associate Examiner
1986-1992 Hand Surgery Section, Northern California Chapter, Co-Chairman
American College of Surgeons.
1992-Present Northern California District #1, Committee on Applicants Member
Committee on Applicants of the American College of Surgeons
1989 AIDS Task Force, San Francisco Medical Society Consultant
1992-1993 Program Director, San Francisco Surgical Society
1993-1994 Northern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons President-Elect
1994-1995 President, Northern California Chapter,
American College of Surgeons
1995-Present San Francisco Surgical Society Council Member
1997-2003 American College of Surgeons Governor
1999 Award Committee, American College of Critical Care Medicine Distinguished
Investigator
1999-2001 Howard C. Naffziger Surgical Society President
2000-2001 President, San Francisco Surgical Society
2000-2002 American Board of Surgery Associate Examiner
2000-2003 American College of Surgeons/ Liaison Committee
American Society of Anesthesiology
2002-2003 Pacific Coast Surgical Association Vice President
2004-Present Operation Access Advisory Council
2004-Present American Board of Surgery Director
2005-Present Committee on Peri-operative Care, ACS Chairman
2006-Present ACS representative to the AMA Physician Consortium for Representative
Performance Improvement's Anesthesiology Work Group
2006-Present ACS Liaison to the Program Committee and to the Governor's
Committee on Surgical Practices in Hospitals and Ambulatory
Settings
2006-Present Member, Board of Directors, UCSF Gold-Headed Cane Society Member
2007-Present Patient Safety and Quality Improvement (PSQI) Committee Member
American College of Surgeons
2007-Present ACS Representative to the Council on Council Member
Surgical and Peri-operative Safety Meeting,
2007-2012 American Board of Family Medicine Board Member
2007-Present Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, ACS Board Member
2007-Present Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, Committee Member
2007-Present Chairman of the Maintenance of Certification American Board of
Committee Surgery
11/28/07 The Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University Trauma Site Survey
07/01/08 American Board of Surgery Recertification Examination Chairman
Committee
SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS:
1996-present Archives of Surgery Ad-Hoc Reviewer
1997-present Journal of Trauma Ad-Hoc Reviewer
1999-2000 Grant Applications to the Israel Science Foundation Ad-Hoc Reviewer
1999-present Journal of the American College of Surgeons Ad-Hoc Reviewer
2006-present Journal of Disaster Medicine Ad-Hoc Reviewer
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
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International
3/1984 Invited Lecture. "The management of head injuries by general surgeons -- A Report from
American Samoa." Association of Surgeons of South Africa, Bophutatswana.
5/1984 Invited Lecture. "The role of operative stabilization in the management of flail chest."
Critical Care Congress, Durban, Republic of South Africa, May 1984.
6/1986 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Hill AC, Schecter WP. " Transbronchial biopsy vs.
open lung biopsy in the diagnosis of pulmonary infections in AIDS". 1st International
Symposium on AIDS, Paris.
12/1-2/1987 Invited Lecture. "AIDS and the surgeon". Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, England.
7/10-14/1988 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Ciresi K, Schecter W: "Pulmonary angiography remains
the gold standard for diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in the setting of high clinical
suspicion and equivocal radionuclide studies." Presented at 7th European Congress on
Diseases of the Chest, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
4/9-11/1989 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Haueissen B, Brunel W, Schecter WP, et al. "Post-
traumatic PIP joint stiffness: Successful treatment with intra-articular steroids. IV
International Congress. International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand, Tel
Aviv, Israel.
6/1989 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Gerberding JL, Littell C, Tarkington A, Brown A,
Schecter WP. Blood exposures among surgical personnel: Intraoperative risks and risk
reduction strategies. Presented at the V International Conference on AIDS. Montreal,
Canada.
8/28-30/1989 Safe and unsafe practices in the operating room and emergency room.
International Conference on Blood-Borne Infections in the Workplace. Stockholm,
Sweden.
10/1990 Invited Lecture. 61st Congreso Argentino de Cirugia. Delivered six lectures in Spanish
entitled, 1. El riesgo al cirujano de infeccion SIDA, 2) Neoplasias anorectales, 3)
tendencias actuales, 4) manejo del trauma hepatico, 4) heridas del colon y recto, 5)
heridas traumaticas de las extremidades: principios de tratamiento, e 6) insuficiencia
respiratoria aguda post-traumatica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
12/10-13/1990 Invited Lecture, Advanced Trauma Life Support Course, Medical Corps, Israel Defense
Force, Bayt Avarah, Haifa, Israel, During this course, I delivered three one hour lectures
on 1) Abdominal Trauma, 2) Pediatric Trauma and Trauma in Pregnancy and 3) Case
studies in trauma management. I also served as an instructor during simulated
resuscitation and treatment of battlefield casualties on all four days of the course
6/3-6/1991 Invited Lecture. Lab Instructor and Mock Casualty Instructor, Combat Trauma Life
support course, Medical Corps, Israel Defense Forces.
5/27-28/1991 Invited Lecture, Lab Instructor and Mock casualty instructor. Civilian Advanced Trauma
Life Support Course, Tel Hashomer Sheba Medical Center, Israel.
5/29/1991 Invited Keynote Lecturer: Tipul BeTrauma LeHaze-Moreh Lenebuchim (Treatment of
Chest Trauma - A guide to the Perplexed) - given in Hebrew, - Trauma care - A
continuum of responsibility (given in English). Panel Discussion: The role of emergency
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room thoracotomy in resuscitation. Trauma 91, 4th Annual meeting of the Israel Trauma
Society, Malon Hasharon, Herzilia Pituah, Israel.
11/18-21/1991 Invited Lecture, lab instructor and mock casualty instructor. Combat Trauma Life
Support, Israel Defense Forces, Israel, November 18-21, 1991.
1/10/1993 Invited Lecture. Haddassah University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Mt.
Scopus Campus.
11/18-19/1993 Invited Lecture. Lab instructor and mock casualty instructor. Combat Trauma\Support,
Israel Defense Forces, Israel, January 11-12, 18-19, 1993.
10/4-28/1993 Invited Lecture. Lab instructor and mock casualty instructor. Combat Trauma Life
Support, Israel Defense Forces, Israel.
11/9/1994 Invited Lecture. IV Congresso Brasileiro de Controle de Infeccao Hospitalar: AIDS and
the Surgeon, prevention of infection after trauma, Recife, Brazil.
11/7-8/1994 Invited Lecture, V Congresso de Cirugia do Triangulo Mineiro: AIDS and Surgery,
evaluation of blunt abdominal trauma, emergency room thoracotomy, prevention of
infections after trauma, organization of the trauma unit at San Francisco General Hospital,
Uberaba, Brazil.
12/23/1994 Invited Lecture. Controversies in shock management. Rambam Hospital, Haifa, Israel.
12/20/1994 Invited Lecture. Penetrating duodenal trauma. Department of Surgery, Assaf Harofe
Hospital, Tsrifin, Israel.
12/19/1994 Invited Lecture, Annual Meeting, Israeli Army Advanced Trauma Life Support Instructors:
Controversies in Trauma Management, Israel Defense Forces.
12/23-26/1994 Instructor. Combat Trauma Life Support. Israel Defense Forces.
5/23-25/1995 Instructor, Combat Trauma Life Support, Israel Defense Forces, Israel.
9/29/1995 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Campbell AR, Newman D, Vittinghoff E, Morabito D,
Shagoury C, Schecter W. Penetrating torso trauma: Quantification of resource
utilization. 55th Annual meeting, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Halifax,
Nova Scotia.
3/21-22/1996 Visiting Professorship, Distinguished Judge and Keynote Speaker, 1996. University of
Calgary, 14th Annual Surgeon’s Days, Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
1/24-25/1996 Invited Panelist: AIDS in Surgery. Pan Pacific Surgical Association, Honolulu, HI.
6/17-18/1996
6/24-25/1996 Instructor, Combat Trauma Life Support, Israel Defense Forces, Israel.
10/12/1996 Invited Lecture. Hemorrhagic Shock: Concepts on Controversies. Chang Gung Memorial
Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China..
10/13/1996 Invited Plenary Lecturer. AIDS and the Surgeon. Society of Emergency and Critical Care
Medicine, Taiwan, Republic of China.
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10/14/1996 Invited Lecture. Hemorrhagic Shock. Concepts and Controversies. Far Eastern
Memorial Hospital, Pan Chao, Taiwan, Republic of China.
11/18-21/1996 Instructor. Combat Trauma Life Support Course, Israel Defense Forces.
3/17/21/1997
3/24/27/1997 Instructor. Combat Trauma Life Support Course, Israel Defense Forces.
7/4/1997 Invited Lecture. Surgical intervention in HIV infected patients.
7/5/1997 Invited Lecture. Infection control precautions in the operating room.
Sixth Munich AIDS Days, Munich, Germany.
11/1997 Instructor. Combat Trauma Life Support Course, Israel Defense Forces.
518-20,1988 Invited Lecture. "AIDS and the surgeon". Third Swedish Surgical Congress, Orebro,
Sweden,
7/1998 Instructor, Combat Trauma Life Support Course, Israel Defense Forces.
4/15-24/1990 Visiting Professorship of Surgery. Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, While at
Hadassah, Dr. Schecter gave 2 Grand Rounds Lectures: 1. Abdominal Trauma, and 2.
AIDS and the Surgeon, attended daily Rounds, attended the Surgical Clinics, scrubbed on
operations and gave a one-hour student seminar for the medical students rotating through
the Surgery Service.
1/1999 Instructor, Combat Trauma Life Support Course, Israel Defense Forces, January 1999.
11/1999 Instructor, Combat Trauma Life Support Course, Israel Defense Forces.
7/1-6/2000 Instructor, Combat Trauma Life Support Course, Israel Defense Forces.
11/19/2000 Speaker. Trauma Forum, Meir Hospital, Kfar Saba, Israel, November 19, 2000.
11/20/2000 Speaker. Trauma Forum, Soroka Medical School, Beer Sheba,
11/20/2000 Invited Lecture: Baron De Larrey, Portal Triad Injuries; Retrohepatic Vena Caval Injuries;
Trauma Israel Trauma Society, Trauma 2000, Herzilia, Israel
11/21-22/2000 Pancreaticoduodenal Injuries, Trauma 2000, Israel Trauma Society, Herzilia, Israel.
8/19-24/2001 Instructor. Combat Trauma Life Support Course, Israel Defense Forces.
2/23-3/2/2002 Presidential Poster Presentation. Rogers SJ, Cello JP, Horn JK, Siperstein AE, Campbell
A, Mackersie E, Harris HW and Schecter WP. Randomized trial of laparoscopic
cholecystectomy plus laparoscopic common bile duct exploration (LC + LCBDE) vs.
ERCP-sphincterotomy plus laparoscopic cholecystectomy (ERCP/S + LC) for common
bile duct stone disease: follow-up of 85 patients. World Congress of Gastroenterology,
Bangkok, Thailand, presented.
5/2-4/2002 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Lee, SK. Schecter WP, Horn JK. Non-operative
management of splenic injuries predicts lower risk of infectious complications. Surgical
Infection Society, Madrid, Spain.
8/2002 Instructor. Combat Trauma Life Support Course, Israel Defense Forces.
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12/22-23/2002 Instructor. Combat Trauma Life Support Course, Israel Defense Forces.
6/11-1/2003 Invited Speaker. Pancreaticoduodenal Injuries, Gunshot Wounds to the Porta Hepatis,
Hypotensive Resuscitation, Withholding and Withdrawing Intensive Care, Medical
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Management of Biochemical Weapons. 8 International Trauma Congress, Durban,
South Africa.
1/1-6/30/2004 Visiting Professorship. Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel,
1/21/2004 Visiting Professorship, Soroka Medical Center, Beersheba, Israel.
1/6/2004 Attendee. Medical Conference, Israel National Police, Latrun, Israel.
1/20/2004 Instructor.. Trauma Forum, Carmel Hospital, Haifa, Israel.
2/25-26/2004 Instructor. Trauma Course, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
3/10-11/2004 Instructor. Trauma Course, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
3/31/2004 Visiting Professorship, Hadassah Har Hatsofim Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
5/16-20/2004 Course Director, Combat Trauma Life Support Course, Israel Defense Forces.
6/15-17/2004 Panel Moderator, International Conferences on Medical Consequences of Terrorism, Tel
Aviv, Israel.
6/15-17/2004 Panel Moderator. Avidan V, Hersch M, Reissman P, Schecter W, Alberton J. Terrorist
Suicide Bombing-Spectrum of Severe Injury. International Conferences on Medical
Consequences of Terrorism, Tel Aviv, Israel.
6/23/2004 Instructor. Trauma Forum, Kaplan Hospital, Rehovot,
7/14-17/2004 Visiting Professorship. The role of gloves in the prevention of blood-borne infections--A
surgeon's view. Delivered three lectures in Hebrew: 1) Management of Hepatobiliary
Trauma, 2) Approach to the Management of the Multiply-Injured patient, 3) Jean-
Dominique Delarrey, the Father of Modern Trauma Surgery. Also participated in multiple
small group teaching sessions. Technion University Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel.
9/9/2004 Invited Lecture. Civilian Hospital Response to Mass Casualty Events: The Israeli
Experience. NYU Downtown Medical Center, International Symposium on Response to
Terrorist Attacks, New York.
9/005 Visiting Professorship, University of Queensland, School of Medicine, Brisbane, Australia.
9/12/2005 Invited Lecture. A Passion for Medicine. Invited Lecture to First Year Class, University of
Queensland, School of Medicine, Brisbane, Australia.
9/15/2005 Invited Lecture. Mass Casualty Events due to Suicide Bombing in Israel: Historical
Context and Clinical Management. ES Meyers Lecturer, University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia.
9/15/2005 Invited Lecture. Management of the Polytrauma Patient: Beyond the Basics. Princess
Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
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9/14/2005 Invited Lecture. Management of the Polytrauma Patient: Beyond the Basics. Emergency
Department, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
9/16/2005 Invited Lecture. Introduction to Biochemical Weapons. Third Year Surgery Students,
Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane.
5/14-5/30/06 Visiting Professorship. Makarere University, Uganda. The following lectures were
delivered: 1) Management of the Trauma Patient: Beyond the Basics. 2) Management
of the Open Abdomen, 3) Perioperative Transmission of Blood-borne Infection:
Preventive Strategies. 4) Civilian Hospital Response to Mass Casualty Events: The
Israeli Experience. Negotiated an agreement between the Department of Surgery at
Makerere University and the Department of Surgery at UCSF.
7/18-8/16/06 Visiting Professorship. Treated war casualties in hospital, Safed Israel.
02/07/2007 Visiting Professor. The Surgical Response to Mass Casualty Events: The Israeli
Experience. University of British Columbia, Trauma Services, Vancouver General
Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.
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4/12/2007 Moderator. Panel on Stem Cell Research and New Technology. 18 Israel Medical
Association International Fellowship meeting, Jerusalem, Israel.
4/12/2007 Peer Review Poster Presentation. S. Einav, S. Shiff, S. Goldberg, M. Hersch, R. Spira, T.
Zalut, W. Schecter. Development of a computerized system for in-hospital tracking of
patient location during multiple casualty incidents. Advanced Technologies in Medicine.
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18 Israel Medical Association. World Fellowship International Conference, Jerusalem,
Israel.
6/6-7/2007 Visiting Professor. The open abdomen: A new surgical disease in the ICU. Bi-Annual
Meeting, Israel Surgical Association, Jerusalem, Israel.
6/30-7/5/07 Course Director. Combat Trauma Life Support Course, Israel Defense Forces, Israel.
7/9-10/2007 Visiting Professor. The Role of Laparoscopy in Trauma. Advanced Laparoscopy in 2007.
Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
10/7-10/07 Peer Review Presentation. Einav S, Schecter WP, Spira R, Goldberg S. Multi-system
trauma. Spira R, Goldberg S. Low-tech computerized in-hospital tracking of patient
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location during multiple casualty incidents (MCIS). 20 ESICM Annual Congress, October
10, 2007, Berlin, Germany.
4/1-2/08 Instructor. Combat Trauma Life Support, Course, Israel Defense Forces.
4/8-9/08 Instructor. Combat Trauma Life Support Course, Israel, Israel Defense Forces.
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9/16-18/2008 Invited Lecture. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome, 21 International Congress of the
Israel Society of Anesthesiologists, Tel Aviv, Israel.
11/5/08 Invited Speaker. Charlotte Baer Award Dinner for Dr. Sheldon Levin, UCSF.
11/18/08 Invited Lecture. Experiences in Israel during 2006 Lebanon War. Los Altos, CA.
12/8-19/08 CTLS Course, Israel Defense Forces, Israel.
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National
2/1981 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Schecter WP, Meyer A, Schecter WP, Giuliano A,
Newmeyer W, Kilgore ES: Necrotizing fasciitis of the upper extremity. American Society
for Surgery of the Hand, Las Vegas, Nevada.
4/14/1981 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Schecter WP, Meyer A, Newmeyer WL, Kilgore ES. "The
management of fingertip amputations" University Association for Emergency Medicine.
San Antonio, Texas, April 14, 1981.
9/27/1981 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Meyer A, Schecter WP, Schecter G, Giuliano A, Kilgore
ES: "Necrotizing fasciitis". American Association for Surgery of Trauma. Homestead,
Hot Springs, Virginia.
1/1985 Attendee. American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Las Vegas, Nevada, January,
1985.
11/13/1985 Participant. Management of Postoperative Pain. National telephone conference
sponsored by Norwich-Eaton Pharmaceuticals.
4/13/1986 Invited Lecture. Chest Trauma. "Myocardial and pulmonary contusion, and flail chest."
CuraCare, Seventh Annual Seminar, Modesto, California.
9/18/1986 Peer Review Presentation. Clark G, Schecter WP, Trunkey D: "Variables affecting
outcome in blunt chest trauma: Flail chest vs. pulmonary contusion". American Society
for Surgery of Trauma, 46th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii,
9/24/1986 Luncheon Panelist: "Cardio-pulmonary trauma". American College of Chest Physicians.
San Francisco, California.
10/23,1986 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Brunel W, Schecter W, Schecter G: Hand deformity and
sensory loss due to Hansen's Disease in American Samoa. Sixteenth Annual Meeting,
The American Association for Hand Surgery, Los Angeles, California.
10/24/1986 Schecter W. "Chest trauma": Mainstreams of critical care nursing, Western Critical Care
Institute, San Francisco, California.
11/5-8/1986 Attendee. The Association for Academic Surgery. Twentieth Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C.
11/5-8/1986 Attendee. The Association for Academic Surgery. Twentieth Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C.
6/1-5/1987 Observer. Transplant Service, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Observed
operative cases as well as ward rounds and outpatient clinics.
9/9-12/1987 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Schecter WP, Jeffrey RB, Markison RE, Barton RM,
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Laing F: "Sonography facilitates the early diagnosis of acute suppurative flexor
tenosynovitis." American Society for Surgery of the Hand, 42nd Annual Meeting, San
Antonio, TX,
5/26-29/1987 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Brunel W, Stoll J, Schecter W: "Routine ICU admission
for suspected myocardial contusion - Is it indicated?" Society for Critical Care Medicine.
6th Annual Symposium. Anaheim, California.
9/9-12/1987 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Hill AC, Schecter WP, Mori H, et al. "Central nervous
system protection during aortic cross-clamping using verapamil". 47th Annual Meeting,
American Society for Surgery of Trauma, Montreal, Canada.
2/17/1988 Invited Lecture. Surgical Grand Rounds, University of Washington, "AIDS and the
surgeon". Seattle, Washington.
2/17/1988 Invited Speaker to AIDS Testing Committee, University of Washington, "Surgical Care in
the Era of HIV Infection", Seattle, Washington,
3/4/1988 Trauma Conference Lecture: "Initial resuscitation of trauma patients". Group
Discussions: "Complex liver injury review", "Blood fractions and fluid use", and "CT, when
and why?" Redding, California,
4/26/1988 Society of Air Force Clinical Surgeons. "Surgical care in the era of HIV infection,"
Oakland, California,
9/14-17/1988 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Schecter WP, Markison RE, Barton RM, Hoffman WY:
"Hand surgery in the era of HIV infection." 43rd Annual Meeting, American Society for
Surgery of the Hand, Baltimore, Maryland,
10/6/1988 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Peper E, Hill A, Brunel W, May C, Katz J, Horn J, Luce J,
Schlobohm R, Markison RE, Schecter WP. "Is routine ICU admission required to "rule
out" myocardial contusion?" 54th Annual Scientific Assembly, American College of Chest
Physicians, Anaheim, California,
10/26/1988 Invited Lecture, "HIV transmission to surgeons: Risk assessment, infection control
precautions and standards of conduct." 1988 Clinical Congress, American College of
Surgeons, Chicago,
12/2/1988 Invited Lecture, "HIV transmission to surgeons", UCSF Course in Occupational HIV
Infection: "Risk assessment, infection control precautions and standards of conduct."
Hotel Le Meridien, San Francisco,
3/3/1989 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Flynn A, Thomas AN, Schecter WP. "Acute
tracheobronchial injury." Western Trauma Association, Snowbird, Utah,
3/18/1989 Invited Lecture: "HIV and the surgeon." Grand Rounds, University of Hawaii, Honolulu,
Hawaii, March 18, 1989.
3/24-25/1999 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Shen WT, Young DM, Schecter WP. ―The 1942
Cocoanut Grove Fire: Death Knell for Burn Treatment with Tannic Acid.‖ = American
Burn Association, March 24-25, 1999, Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
5/23/1989 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Crombleholme T, Schecter WP, Wilson W. "Anal
carcinoma: Change in incidence, natural history and treatment: A 26-year review of the
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UCSF-SFGH experience. American Society of Clinical Oncology, San Francisco,
6/6-7/1989 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Smedira NG, Evans BH, Grais LS, Cohen NH, Lo B,
Cooke M, Schecter WP, Luce JM. Withholding and withdrawing life support from the
critically ill. 18th Annual meeting, Society of Critical Care Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
6/16/1989 Invited Lecture. Anorectal malignancy: New aspects of surgical management.
Gastroenterology - Recent developments in theory and practice. San Francisco,
9/13-16/1989 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Smedira N, Markison R, Schecter WP: Proximity is
not an indication for mandatory arteriography in penetrating wounds of the upper
extremity. 44th Annual Meeting, American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Seattle,
Washington,
9/20-23/1989 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Lorenz P, Schecter WP: Conservative management
of massive liver injury in the pediatric trauma patient. National Conference on Pediatric
Trauma, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
10/5-7/1989 Attendee, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Chicago, IL.
10/23/1989 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Wilson W, Lorenz P, Leigh B, Schecter W: Squamous
cell carcinoma of the anus and AIDS. American College of Gastroenterology. New
Orleans.
11/1/1989 Invited Lecture. HIV and Surgery: Risk assessment, infection control precautions and
ethical behavior. Invited Lecture. American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery. Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
11/15/1989 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Flynn A, Cogging D, Austin R, Muehrcke D, Schecter W,
Hoffman J: Nonuniformity of blood flow to small regions of the canine left ventricle. 23rd
Annual Meeting of the Association for Academic Surgery, University of Louisville, School
of Medicine, Louisville, KY.
11/18-20/1990 Visiting Professorship of Surgery and Orthopedic Surgery, University of Missouri at
Columbia. Delivered lectures on Chest Trauma, Tendon Transfers for Peripheral Nerve
Injury of the Upper Extremity, Primary Care of Hand Injuries, HIV Infection in Surgery, and
Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections, Student Case Presentations
1/28/1990 Panelist: Ethical Issues Relating to Health Care Workers and HIV Infection, First Annual
Meeting, Institute for Jewish Medical Ethics, San Francisco, California.
2/5-10/1990 Visiting Professorship of Surgery, University of Hawaii, February 5-10, 1990. Delivered
lectures on Chest Trauma, Withholding and Withdrawing Support in the ICU, Surgical
Practice in the South Pacific, Abdominal Trauma, Anorectal Malignancy, and attended
Rounds and Surgical Operations
2/12/1990 Invited Lecture. AIDS and the Surgeon. Pan Pacific Surgical Association, Monday,
February 12, 1990, Waikaloa, Hawaii.
3/1990 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Smedira N, Stevens M, Schecter WP: Is proximity an
indication for mandatory angiography in penetrating extremity injuries? 20th Annual
Meeting, Western Trauma Association, Crested Butte, Colorado.
3/27/1990 Invited Lecture. Occupational blood-borne infection in health care workers caring for
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AIDS patients: Risk and Prevention. College of American Pathologists, 1990 Spring
meeting, San Francisco,
4/22-25/1990 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Lorenz P, Wilson W, Leigh B and Schecter W. Kaposi's
Sarcoma of the rectum in AIDS patients. 42nd Annual Meeting, The Southwestern
Surgical Congress. La Quinta, California,
9/6-8/1990 Attendee. American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Tucson, Arizona,
10/8/1990 Panelist, Plastic Surgery Motion Picture Session, 1990 Clinical Congress, American
College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA.
10/22-26/1990 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Flynn A, Verrier E, Thomas A, Schecter W. Traumatic
esophageal perforation. 56th Annual Scientific Assembly, American College of Chest
Physicians, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2/20/1991 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Burke EC, Orloff SL, Macho JR, Schecter WP. Outcome
of anorectal surgery in HIV-infected patients: An analysis of 77 operations. 62nd Annual
Session, Pacific Coast Surgical Association, The Inn at Spanish Bay, Pebble Beach,
California.
4/21-24/1991 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Macho J, Steinmetz B, Luce J, Schecter WP.
Management of far-advanced breast cancer. Southwestern Surgical Congress, Las
Vegas,
8/19-24/1991 Visiting Professorship .Triipler Army Medical Center, Performed surgery on
August 19, 21, 23, and 24. Gave four talks: Tuesday, August 20 - Withholding and
withdrawing intensive care and case presentations in General Surgery. Thursday,
August 22 - Chest Trauma, Saturday, August 24 - Surgical Care in the Era of HIV
Infection.
9/14/1991 Invited Commentary. Brooks SW, Young JC, Cmolik B, Schina N, Dianzumba S,
Townsend RN, and Diamond DL. The use of transesophageal echocardiography in the
evaluation of chest trauma. Presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American
Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Philadelphia, PA.
9/14/1991 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Lorenz P, Steinmetz B, Lieberman J, Schecte WP,
Macho JR. Emergency thoracotomy: Survival correlates with physiologic status. 51st
Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Philadelphia, PA,
September 14, 1991.
9/30/1991 Invited Lecture. Strategies for risk reduction of transmission of blood-borne pathogens in
the operating room, 31st ICAA Meeting (American Society of Microbiology), Chicago, IL,
10/4/1991 Invited Lecture. An American Hand Surgeon in Samoa and Africa: Lessons from surgery
in the Third World, Annual meeting, American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Orlando,
Florida,
10/30/1991 Invited Panelist. AIDS: What's the risk? Annual Meeting, American Society of
Anesthesiology.San Francisco, California.
11/6/1991 Panel Chairman. Management of chest trauma: Illustrative cases and clinical pearls.
Annual Meeting American College of Chest Physicians. San Francisco, California.
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12/14/1991 Panelist. The HIV infected health care worker, the National AIDS Education and Training
Center Workshop, San Francisco,
2/18/1992 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Hickey M, Schecter W, Jarnagin W, Eastey S.
Nutritional management of HIV-infected surgical patients. Annual Meeting, Pacific Coast
Surgical Association, Kauai.
3/2/1992 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Constant J, Chansmorn C, Schecter WP, Macho JR.
Injury to the infrahepatic vena cava: Predictors of mortality. Western Trauma
Association, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, March 2, 1992.
4/27/1992 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Flynn AE, Coggin DL, Schecter WP, Hoffman JIE. The
influence of blood pressure and heart rate on myocardial perfusion. Southwestern
Surgical Congress, Marriott's Camelback Inn, Scottsdale, Arizona, April 27, 1992.
4/27/1992 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Whitney TM, Macho JR, Russell TR, Bossart KJ, Heer
FW, Schecter WP. Appendicitis in Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Presented at
the Southwestern Surgical Congress, Marriott's Camelback Inn, Scottsdale, Arizona,
4/27/1992 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Jarnagin W, Hansen P, Burke E, Davis L, Macho J,
Hickey M, Schecter WP. The effect of surgery on helper T-cell levels in HIV infected
patients. Poster presentation at the Southwestern Surgical Congress, Marriott's
Camelback Inn, Scottsdale.
9/18/1992 Peer Review Oral Presentation, Macho JR, Schecter WP. Cardiac stapling in the
management of penetrating injuries of the heart: Rapid control of hemorrhage and
decreased risk of personal contamination. 52nd Annual Meeting, American Association
for the Surgery of Trauma, Louisville, KY.
10/16/1992 Invited Lecture. ICU support should be maximal until the patient is dead, and physicians
should not actively withdraw support--yes. "Critical Care: ICU Care Controversies".
Postgraduate Course, American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 78th Annual
Meeting, New Orleans.
2/17/1993 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Horn JK, Duke D, Schecter WP. Perioperative infection
after splenic injury: Splenectomy and repair carry similar risks. Presented at the 64th
Annual Session of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, Scottsdale, Arizona,
3/20/1993 Invited Lecture, AIDS and Cancer. Meet the Professor Series, Society of Surgical
Oncology National Meeting, Los Angeles, California,
5/25/1993 Invited Lecture. AIDS and the Surgeon. American Urological Association, San Antonio,
Texas, May 25, 1993.
10/11/1993 Invited Lecture. Serologic testing of surgical patients for viral pathogens. Board of
Governors, Panel Discussion on viral infections in the operating room, 1993 Clinical
Congress, American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, California,
10/13/1993 Participant. Perioperative analgesia for outpatient surgery. Panel Discussion for
Postgraduate Course, "Update: Ambulatory Surgery: Current Issues and Controversies",
1993 Clinical Congress, American College of Surgeons, San Francisco,
2/13-15/1994 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Gerberding JL, Rose DA, Ramiro NZ, Perlman JL,
Schecter WP. Intraoperative provider injuries and potential patient recontacts at San
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Francisco General Hospital. Conference on Prevention of Transmission of Blood-Borne
Pathogens in Surgery and Obstetrics. Sponsored by the American College of Surgeons
and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta, Georgia,
2/13-15/1994 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Rose DA, Ramiro N, Perlman J, Schecter WP,
Gerberding JL. Usage patterns and perforation rates for 6396 gloves from intraoperative
procedures at San Francisco General Hospital. Conference on Prevention of
Transmission of Blood-Borne Pathogens in Surgery and Obstetrics. Sponsored by the
American College of Surgeons and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Atlanta, Georgia.
2/13-15/1994 Invited Panelist. "Are universal precautions realistic?--Alternative strategies". Conference
on Prevention of Transmission of Blood-Borne Pathogens in Surgery and Obstetrics.
Sponsored by the American College of Surgeons and the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. Atlanta, Georgia,
10/1/1994 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Campbell A, Vittinghoff E, Morabito D, Payne M,
Shagoury C, Praetz P, Grey D, McAninch, J, Schecter W. Trauma centers in a managed
care environment. American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, San Diego, CA,
10/11/1994 Invited Lecture. Pleural decompression and blood chemistry testing: Oxygenation
assessment and hemorrhagic shock treatment can effectively be accomplished in
ambulances and helicopter transportation in patients with devastating injury?
Postgraduate course in care of the patient with devastating trauma-from injury to self-
sufficiency. American College of Surgeons, Chicago,
4/23-26/1995 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Hamon G, Hojman H, Schecter W and Horn J. Risk
of perioperative infection following splenic injury. Southwestern Surgical Congress, San
Antonio, Texas.
4/28/1995 Visiting Professorship. AIDS in Surgery, Healthcare Professionals, Institutions and the
Social Contract. Fourteenth Annual Joseph C. Finneran Visiting Professorship, St.
Vincent-Community Health Network, Indianapolis, Indiana.
4/29/1995 Invited Lecture. Withholding and Withdrawing Intensive Care - A Surgeon's Perspective.
Department of Surgery, Grand Rounds, University of Indiana, School of Medicine,
Indianapolis, Indiana.
6/2/1995 Invited Lecture. The Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition. 19th Annual Chapter Officers'
Seminar, American College of Surgeons, Chicago.
2/19-22/1996 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Duh Q, Siperstein A, Clark O, Schecter W, Horn J, Hunt
T, Way L. Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy: Lateral or Posterior Approach? Pacific Coast
Surgical Association, San Diego, CA.
6/1/1996 Invited Presentation on Operation Access. 20th Annual Chapter Officers Seminar,
American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois.
9/19-21/1996 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Hojman H, Horn JK, Schecter WP. Tube
duodenostomy is not necessary for the treatment of Grade 1 and 2 duodenal injuries.
American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Houston, Texas,
9/25/1996 Invited Presentation on Operation Access. Annual Board Meeting, Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, San Francisco, California.
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2/16/1997 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Albo RJ, Stanten A, Stanten S, Cooper R, Schecter
WP. Pedunculated gastric leiomyosarcoma: A plea for conservative resection. 68th
Annual Session of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association.
2/20-26/1997 Visiting Professorship, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. Lectures:
Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections; AIDS and the Surgeon; Gunshot Wounds to the
Portahepatis: A Clinicopathologic Conference; Management of Neck Trauma and Burn
Resuscitation. Teaching in the operating room: three days.
4/11-12/1997 Invited Attendee, National Meeting, Reach Out Program, Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, Coronado, CA.
9/19-21/1996 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Hojman H, Schecter W, Horn J. Tube Duodenostomy is
Not Necessary for Grade 1 and 2 Duodenal Injuries. American Association for the
Surgery of Trauma, Houston, TX.
9/24/1997 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Harris HW, Morabito DJ, Mackersie RC, Schecter WP.
Leukocytosis and free fluid are important indicators of isolated occult intestinal injury
following blunt trauma. 57th Annual Meeting, American Association for the Surgery of
Trauma, Waikaloa, Hawaii.
10/13/1997 Invited Lecture. Local anesthesia for ambulatory surgery. Postgraduate Course No. 1
Pre and Postoperative Care: Systems to Improve Quality and efficiency in ambulatory
surgery. 83rd Annual Clinical Congress, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL.
3/27-28/1998 Invited Attendee: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Reach Out Initiative Annual Meeting.
Brazleton, GA..
4/21/1998 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Rogers SJ, Davila AD, Cello JP, Schecter WP.
Pancreatic Trauma: Role of endoscopic retrograde pancreatography. Southwest Surgical
Congress, San Antonio, Texas,
9/23-25/1998 Attendee. American Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
10/26/1998 Invited Lecture: Local Anesthetics in Surgical Practice. Annual Meeting, American
College of Surgeons, Orlando, Florida.
2/14/1999 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Callahan TE, Schecter WP, Horn JK. Why does
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mortality from portal triad injuries remain so high? 70 Annual Meeting, Pacific Coast
Surgical Association, San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
3/11-14/1999 Invited Participant. National Meeting Reach Out: Physicians’ Initiative to Expand Care to
Underserved Americans. Supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Charleston, South Carolina.
3/24-25/1999 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Shen WT, Young DM, Schecter WP. ―The 1942
Cocoanut Grove Fire: Death Knell for Burn Treatment with Tannic Acid.‖ American Burn
Association, Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
3/1999 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Rogers SJ, Cello JP, Horn JK, Campbell A, Mackersie R,
Schecter WP, Siperstein, AE. Randomized controlled trial of laparoscopic
cholecystectomy plus laparoscopic common bile duct exploration (LC + LCBDE) vs.
ERCP-sphincterotomy plus laparoscopic cholecystectomy (ERCP/S+LC) for common bile
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duct stone disease. Gastro 1999;116:A1346, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract,
1999.
4/18/1999 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Callahan TE, Schecter WP, Campbell AR, Horn JK.
Stapled loop colostomy is the procedure of choice for fecal diversion in the absence of
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distal obstruction. 51 Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Surgical Congress,
Coronado, California.
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9/16-18/1999 Attendee. 59 Annual Meeting, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Boston,
Massachusetts.
10/12/1999 Moderator. Portal Triad Trauma. Correlative Clinic I, 1999 Clinical Congress, American
College of Surgeons, San Francisco, California.
2/22/2000 Peer Review Oral Presentation. O’Neill BB, Schecter WP, Harris HW, Gosnell JE, Koch
J, Lull RJ, Halvorsen RA. Cinematic nuclear scintigraphy reliably directs surgical
intervention in gastrointestinal bleeding. Pacific Coast Surgical Association, San
Francisco, California.
10/5-7/2000 Attendee. American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Seattle, Washington.
10/11-14/2000 Attendee. American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. San Antonio, Texas
10/23/2000 Moderator. Panel on Analgesia and Sedation in the Intensive Care Unit. Sponsored by
the Committee on the Operating Room Environment. Annual Congress, American
College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois.
2/17-20/2001 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Stern J, Schecter WP, Horn JK. Timing of debridement
in serious necrotizing soft tissue infections. Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Surgical
Association, Banff, Canada,
5/22-25/2000 Visiting Professorship, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.
5/23/2000 Invited Lectures. Endpoints of Resuscitation. Warfare in Medicine: A Historical
Perspective. Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.
5/25/2000 Invited Lectures. Portal Triad Trauma, Management of Neck Trauma, Telemedicine
Grand Rounds: HIV and Malignancy – Thoughts on Oncogenesis at the Turn of the
Millenium. Teaching in the operating room: two days. Tripler Army Medical Center,
Honolulu, Hawaii.
3/28/2001 Visiting Professorship, University of Hawaii. Invited Lecture. HIV and Malignancy:
Thoughts on Viral Oncogenesis, Honolulu, Hawaii.
10/7/2001 Invited Speaker: The Other America, Surgical Care of the Underserved: Is
Regionalization Rational? General or Subspecialty Surgery? Board of Governors,
American College of Surgeons, New Orleans, Louisiana.
10/8/2001 Moderator. Pain Management in Outpatient Surgery. Annual Clinical Congress,
American College of Surgeons, New Orleans, Louisiana.
10/10/2001 Invited Speaker. HIV and Surgery: A Moral Imperative and a Litigious Nightmare.
Annual Clinical Congress, American College of Surgeons.
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10/18/2001 Visiting Professorship, Department of Surgery, University of Miami. Delivered two
lectures: 1) Dominique de Larrey: The Father of Modern Trauma Surgery; 2) Surgical
Care of Portal Triad Injuries. Made Bedside Teaching Rounds in the ICU.
1/10-11/2002 Visiting Professorship, Department of Surgery, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1/10/2002 Invited Lecture, ―Dominique de Larrey, the Father of Modern Trauma Surgery,
Albuquerque Surgical Society.
1/11/2002 Invited Speaker. Grand Rounds: Medical Management of Victims of Biochemical
Weapons, Department of Surgery, University of New Mexico, Case presentations with
residents.
2/18/2002 Attendee. Pacific Coast Surgical Association. Las Vegas, Nevada.
4/18/2002 Sewell Lecturer in Trauma, Jean Dominique Delarrey, the Father of Modern Trauma
Surgery. Harris Methodist Hospital, Fortworth, Texas.
4/23-26/1995 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Hamon G, Hojman H, Schecter W and Horn J. Risk of
perioperative infection following splenic injury. Southwestern Surgical Congress, San
Antonio, Texas.
9/26-28, 2002 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Rogers SJ, Cello JP, Schecter WP. Endoscopic
retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in patients with pancreatic trauma.
American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Orlando, Florida, September 26-28,
2002.
10/9/2002 Invited Panelist. Treatment of victims of chemical weapons. Symposium on mass
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casualties and weapons of mass destruction. 88 Clinical Congress, American College
of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA.
10/24/2002 Invited Speaker. Withholding and withdrawing intensive care: A surgeon’s perspective.
Grand Rounds. Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts.
5/28-30/2003 Invited Participant: Alcohol and Other Drug Problems among Hospitalized Trauma
Patients: Controlling Complications, Mortality and Trauma Recidivism (sponsored by the
Centers for Disease Control), Arlington Virginia, May 28-30, 2003.
9/26-28/2002 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Rogers SJ, Cello JP, Schecter WP. Endoscopic
retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in patients with pancreatic trauma.
American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Orlando, Florida.
4/14/2003 Invited Panelist. American College of Surgeons Committee on Perioperative Care, New
York City.
9/29/2003 Invited Lecture. Upper extremity Steal Syndrome following vascular surgery access for
hemodialysis. American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Chicago, Illinois,
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10/20/2003 Invited Panelist. Volunteerism: How you/I do it – Panel on Volunteerism, 89 Clinical
Congress, American College of Surgeons, Chicago,
10/20/2003 Invited Panelist. HIV as an Occupational Risk for Surgeons—Panel on Blood-borne
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Infections, 89 Clinical Congress, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, October 20,
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2003.
4/15-16/2004 Attendee. American Surgical Association Meeting,
9/9/2004 Invited Speaker. Emergency Preparedness: Safeguarding the Public in a New Era.
Second Annual Symposium, NYU Downtown Hospital.
9/29/2004 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Spira R, Horn JK, Schecter WP. Improved
communication and patient flow: Lessons learned from two suicide bombings. AAST,
Maui, HI, September, 2004.
10/3/2004 Invited Speaker. Timpanogos Surgery Club. 1. Civilian Hospital Response to Mass
Casualty Events: The Israeli Experience; 2. Volunteerism., Sundance, Utah.
12/11/2004 Moderator, Panel on Selected Topics in Perioperative Pain Management, Annual
Clinical Congress, American College of Surgeons, New Orleans.
1/9-12/2005 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Hersch M, Avidan V, Schecter WP. Civilian Hospital
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Reponse to a Mass Casualty Event. The Role of the ICU. 34 Annual Meeting, Society of
Critical Care Medicine, Phoenix, AZ.
2/20/2005 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Schecter WP, Klassen C, O’Connor P, Ochitill H,
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Potts. Suicide: The unmet challenge of the trauma system. 76 Annual Meeting, Pacific
Coast Surgical Association, Dana Point, CA.
2/20/2005 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Ozgediz D, Roayane K, Debas H, Farmer D, Schecter
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W. Surgery in eveloping Countries: Essential training in Surgery. 76 Annual Meeting,
Pacific Coast Surgical Association, Dana Point, CA.
1/9-12/2005 Annual Meeting and Retreat, American Board of Surgery, Kauai, HI, January 9-
12, 2005.
4/10-12/2005 Oral Scientific Presentation. Avidan V, Hersch M, Schecter WP. Lung blast injury.
Southwestern Surgical Congress, San Antonio, Texas.
4/13/2005 Participant, Executive Committee, American Board of Surgery meeting, Miami, Florida.
4/14-16/2005 Attendee. American Surgical Association meeting. Palm Beach, Florida.
4/18/2005 Participant, Vice Chair, Committee on Perioperative Care. American College of Surgeons
Spring meeting, West Palm Beach, Florida.
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5/19-21/2005 Visiting Professorship. ―Civilian hospital response to a mass casualty event: The
Israeli experience. Rikkers Visiting Professorshipship. University of Nebraska,
Department of Surgery, Omaha, Nebraska.
5/19/-21/2005 Invited Lecture. ―Surgery and the social contract.‖ Rikkers Invited Lecture, University
of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska
10/17/2005 Invited Lecture. Enteroatmospheric fistula: The feared complication of the open
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abdomen. American College of Surgeons, 91 Clinical Congress, San Francisco, CA,
10/18/2005 Invited Lecture. Civilian hospital response to mass casualty events: The Israeli
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experience. American College of Surgeons, 91 Clinical Congress, San Francisco, CA.
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2/16-19/2006 Peer Review Oral Presentation. Einav S, Reissman P, Schecter WP. The role of the
surgeon in a terrorist mass casualty event: A survey of the Israeli experience. Pacific
Coast Surgical Association meeting, San Francisco, CA.
3/7-8/06 Attendee. National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) on Occupational
Blood-Borne Exposures. Durham, North Carolina.
4/18-4/22/06 Attendee. American Board of Surgery meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
4/20-22/06 126th Annual Meeting, American Surgical Association, Westin Copley Place • Boston, MA
4/24/06 Participant. Committee on Perioperative Spring Meeting, American College of Surgeons,
Care, Dallas, Texas.
10/09/06 Schecter W. Invited Panelist. Disaster Planning in the Modern Era of Terrorism: Multiple
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casualty trauma management: The Israeli Experience. 92 Annual Clinical Congress,
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American College of Surgeons, Chicago. 92 Annual Clinical Congress, 92nd Annual
Clinical Congress, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois.
10/10/06 Co-Moderator Panel: The Role of the Surgeon in International Disaster Assistance:
Special Opportunities and Special Challenges. 92nd Annual Clinical Congress, American
College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois.
10/11/06 Presiding Officer and Introducer: I.S. Ravdin Lecture in Basic Sciences, 92nd Annual
Clinical Congress, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois.
01/22-23/07 Invited Participant. American College of Surgeons Representative to Association for
Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. APIC 2007 Futures Summit
meeting, Washington, DC.
02/02-03/07 Council Member. ACS Representative to the Council on Surgical and Perioperative
Safety Meeting, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois.
2/18/07 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Jamshidi R, Schecter W. Biologic Dressings in the
Management of Enteric Fistulas in Open Abdomens: A Preliminary Report.
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Pacific Coast Surgical Association 78 Annual Meeting, The Fairmont Orchid, Kohala
Coast, Hawaii, February 18, 2007.
4/5/07 Invited Speaker. Civilian Hospital Response to Mass Casualty Events. Trauma
Symposium. Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital. Texas Health Research Institute, Fort
Worth, Texas.
7/12-15/07 Council on Surgical and Perioperative Safety, American College of Surgeons, Avon,
Colorado.
7/15/17/07 2007 Executive Symposium on Surgical Safety: Creating a Culture of Perioperative
Safety, Avon, Colorado.
11/7-9/07 Visiting Professor. Surgical Grand Rounds. Alpha Omega Alpha – Theta of New York.
Albany Medical College, New York City, NY.
2/14-18/08 Presenter. American Board of Surgery Report to the Pacific Coast Surgical Association
Meeting, San Diego ,California.
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10/14/08 Invited Panelist and Moderator.Enterocutaneous Fistula. Panel Discussion. American
College of Surgeons, San Francisco,CA.
10/14/08 Invited Lecture. Operation Access Town Hall Meeting on Volunteerism in Surgery.
American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA.
10/14/08 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Einav S, Schecter W, Amtot I, Horn JK, Hirsch M,
Reissman P, Spira RM. Case Managers in multiple casualty incidents. Scientific Poster
Competition, 2008 Clinical Congress, American College of Surgeons, San Francisco.
October 14, 2008.
10/16/08 Invited Lecture. Communication skills and professionalism: What is expected and how
do I document it? Panel on Step-by-Step Guide to Maintaining Certification. American
College of Surgeons, San Francisco, Ca.
10/17-18/08 Attendee as Director of Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Board, Orlando, Florida.
1/29/09 Invited Speaker. Physician’s Role in Disaster Response: Physician Role in Incident
Command. Surgical Grand Rounds, Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, CA.
2/13-16/09 Presenter. American Board of Surgery Report to the Pacific Coast Surgical Association
meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Regional and Other Invited Presentations
12/1980 Invited Lecture. Postgraduate Trauma Course: "Controversies in Trauma". Advanced
Trauma Life Support Instructor's Course, San Francisco, California, December, 1980.
6/1980 Participant in Workshop: "Care of the Trauma Victim". Doctor's Medical Center,
Modesto, California, June, 1980.
6/1980 Participant, Panel Discussion: "Problems in Hand Surgery". Northern California Chapter,
American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, California.
2/19-20/1981 Instructor, Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider's Course. San Francisco, California.
4/24/1981 Lecturer: "Surgical and Traumatic Emergencies." Course for Emergency Physicians,
San Francisco, California.
5/7-8/1991 Invited Lectures: a) Are physicians obligated to treat HIV-infected patients - A Jewish
perspective. b) HIV infection and surgery: Risks and responsibility. c) Surgical problems
in HIV-infected patients - Case presentations. The Jewish Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky.
10/23-24/1985 Instructor, Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider's Course. San Francisco, California.
5/4/1984 Presenter, Case Presentation: "Re-do opponensplasty in Hansen's Disease". American
College of Surgeons meeting, San Francisco, California.
6/19-20/1985 Instructor, Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider's Course. San Francisco, California.
1/16-17/1986 Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider's Course. San Francisco.
1/23/1986 Schecter WP. Medieval Monarchies and Modern Medicine: Back to the Future.
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Invited Lecture, University of California, San Francisco Retreat, Friday,
Santa Cruz, CA.
5/13/1986 Grand Rounds Lecture: "Third World Surgery", Seton Medical Center.
7/10/1986 Invited Lecture. Family Practice Board Review Course. "Breast masses: Screening,
diagnosis, and treatment". San Francisco, California.
2/2/1987 Invited Lecture: "Blunt chest trauma". Visiting Professorship, Grand Rounds, Highland
General Hospital, Oakland, California.
2/6/1987 Invited Lecture. Annual Review in Family Medicine: "Controversies and challenges in
primary care". Breast Cancer. University of California, School of Medicine, San
Francisco, California.
4/28/1987 Invited Lecture: "AIDS and the surgeon". East Bay Surgical Society, Athenian Nile Club,
Oakland, California.
5/2/1987 Panel Discussion: "Shock and Trauma". The Postgraduate Course in General Surgery,
San Francisco, California.
5/6/1987 Partiipant, Trauma Panel: Naffziger Surgical Society, Meridien Hotel, Surgery Course,
San Francisco.
10/18/1987 Invited Lecture. American Society for Surgery of the Hand. "Regional Review Courses in
Hand Surgery, Vascular Disorders of the Hand and Compartment Syndrome". San
Francisco, California.
12/8/1987 Invited Lecture: "AIDS and Surgery". Mount Diablo Hospital, Concord, California.
2/17/1988 Invited Lecture: "AIDS and Surgery". Highland Hospital, Oakland, California.
4/14-16/1988 Panel Discussion: "Evaluation of Abdominal Trauma." Postgraduate Course in General
Surgery. Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, California.
4/22-23/1988 Invited Lecture: AIDS and the Surgeon. "Comprehensive care of the AIDS patient: A
workshop." Hotel Nikko, San Francisco, California.
5/5-6/1988 Invited Lecture: "AIDS and the surgeon". Eighth Annual Meeting, Surgical Infection
Society, San Francisco, California.
6/1-17/1988 Invited Lecture: Colon Cancer Surveillance and Management and Diagnosis and
Management of Common Anorectal Problems. "Gastroenterology: Advances in
diagnosis and management." San Francisco, California.
7/5-7/1988 Invited Lecture. Family Practice Board Review Course: "Breast Masses: Screening,
diagnosis, and treatment", San Francisco, California.
8/30/1988 Invited Lecture. International Health Forum: "Surgical experiences in the Third World",
San Francisco.
9/16/1988 "Surgery in the era of HIV infection", Annual Meeting, Washington State Medical
Association, Yakima, Washington.
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11/30/1988 Invited Consultant: "AIDS and surgery", Bioethics, Committee, San Francisco Medical
Society, San Francisco, California.
1/10/1989 Invited Lecture: "Surgery in the era of HIV infection," St. Francis Memorial Hospital, San
Francisco, California.
1/20/1989 Invited Lecture: " 1) Resuscitation of the trauma victim, 2) Assessment of abdominal
trauma, 3) Adult respiratory distress syndrome, 4) AIDS and the trauma surgeon."
Mercy Medical Center Trauma Symposium, Mt. Shasta, California.
5/20/1989 Attendee. Regional meeting of the Northern California Chapter, American College of
Surgeons, San Francisco.
6/25/1989 Invited Lecture. AIDS and the Surgeon, Annual meeting, Missouri Chapter, ACS, Lake of
the Ozarks, Missouri.
6/28/1989 Invited Lecture. Occupational Risks of HIV Infection for Surgeons. Third Annual
Conference AIDS Update: Essential Issues in Primary Care, Alta Bates Hospital,
Berkeley, CA.
7/12/1989 Invited Lecture. Management of breast masses. UCSF Family Practice Board Review
Course.
7/1/1989 Invited Lecture. Appendicitis and Pylephlebitis. Infectious Disease Grand Rounds,
UCSF.
9/30/1989 Invited Lecture. Surgery in the era of HIV infection. Washington State Medical
Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.
12/1/1989 Invited Lecture. Trauma Surgery and HIV Infection. California Trauma Conference, San
Francisco.
1/12-13,1990 Invited Lecture. Mercy Medical Trauma Conference. 1) Thoracic Trauma Update, 2.
Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support in the ICU, and 3) Case Discussion Panelist.
Mount Shasta, California.
2/1/1990 Invited Lecture. Surgical Grand Rounds, HIV and Surgery, Kaiser Hospital, San
Francisco.
3/28/1990 Invited Lecture. Occupationally acquired HIV infection and Worker's Compensation. San
Francisco Department of Public Health, 101 Grove Street, San Francisco.
4/12/1990 Grand Rounds, Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco, AIDS and the Surgeon.
4/27/1990 Moderator: Panel on Thoracic Trauma, Naffziger Surgical Society Course in General
Surgery, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco.
6/27/1990 Invited Lecture: Occupational Risks of HIV Infection. AIDS Update for Primary Care:
New Hope in a New Era, Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, CA, Wednesday.
9/14/1990 Grand Rounds: Occupational Risk of HIV Infection. Department of Surgery, Presbyterian
Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, September 14, 1990.
9/15/1990 Invited Lecture: Surgical Management of Anorectal Malignancy. Continuing Medical
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Education Seminar, Gastroenterology: Advances in Diagnosis and Management, San
Francisco.
10/31/1990 Invited Lecture: AIDS and the Surgeon, Merrithew Memorial Hospital, Martinez,
California..
3/4/1991 Peer Review Presentation. Hansen J, Kerley SM, Schecter WP. The effect of HIV status
on upper extremity infections. UCSF Department of Surgery Resident Research Day.
3/4/1991 Invited Lecture: HIV infection and surgery: Risks and Responsibility. California Society
of Plastic Surgery, San Francisco.
3/8/1991 Invited Lectures: 1. AIDS and acute surgical conditions, 2) HIV infections and surgery:
Risks and responsibility, California Medical Association, Reno, Nevada.
4/25/1991 Invited Lecture: Emergency laparotomy in AIDS patients. UCSF Postgraduate Course in
General Surgery, San Francisco.
4/26/1991 Invited Lecture: Screening evaluation and management of breast cancer. Annual
meeting, League of Vocational Nurses, Foster City, CA.
5/1/1991 Invited Lecture: HIV infection and surgery. Fort Collins, Colorado.
5/11/1991 Invited Lecture: Withholding and withdrawing intensive care - A surgeon's perspective.
Panel Discussion: Ethics and surgery. Plenary Session, Annual Meeting, Northern
California Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, May 11, 1991.
5/15/1991 Invited Lecture. Are physicians obligated to treat HIV infected patients - Lecture and
discussion as part of ethics course given to 4th year medical students.
9/6/1991 Invited Speaker. Withholding and withdrawing intensive care - A surgeon's perspective.
Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz.
9/19/1991 Invited Lecture. Risks of occupationally-acquired HIV infection, San Mateo County
Medical Society, San Mateo, CA.
12/14/1991 Panelist. UCSF Orthopedic Grand Rounds, HIV and Surgery.
2/5/1992 Invited Lecture. Withholding and withdrawing support--A surgeon's perspective. South
Valley Hospital, Gilroy, California.
2/6/1992 Grand Rounds. Abdominal surgery in the HIV-infected patient. University of California,
Davis, East Bay Surgical Residency, Kaiser Hospital, Oakland, California..
4/4/1992 Invited Lecture. Emergency thoracotomy: Does it save lives? The Postgraduate Course
in General Surgery, San Francisco, California..
4/11/1992 Invited Lecture.. AIDS and Surgery. AIDS Symposium, The Buttes, Tempe, Arizona.
4/23-24/1992 Instructor. AIDS and Cancer. Cancer Management Course. Commission on Cancer of
the American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, California.
5/5/1992 Invited Lecture. AIDS and Surgery. St. Joseph's Hospital, Stockton, California.
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5/16/1992 Invited Lecture. Improving surgical care for the underinsured and medically indigent: A
proposal. Plenary session, Northern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons,
San Francisco.
9/29/1992 Invited Lecture. HIV infection and surgery. East Bay Surgical Society, Oakland,
California.
11/6/1992 Invited Lecture.. Withholding and withdrawing support in the Intensive Care Unit. Military
and Pacific Coast Regional Meeting, American College of Physicians, San Francisco.
3/18/1993 Invited Lecture. AIDS and Cancer. Mt. Zion Hospital, San Francisco, CA.
3/19/1993 Invited Lecture. AIDS and Cancer. St. Francis Memorial Hospital, San Francisco, CA.
4/26/1993 Invited Lecture. AIDS and Surgery. San Mateo County Hospital.
5/15/1993 Invited Lecture. Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition: An Update on Provision of
Surgical Care for the Indigent. Northern California Chapter, American College of
Surgeons, San Francisco.
6/28/1993 Instructor. Physicians Obligated to Treat HIV Infected Patients? Syllabus for Medicine
112, "Responsibilities of Medical Practice." University of California, San Francisco.
9/15/1993 Instructor. "Responsibilities of the Physician". 1993 Orientation Program for UCSF First
Year Medical Students. San Francisco, California.
9/18/1993 Grand Rounds, Department of Anesthesia, San Francisco, California.
10/7/1993 Invited Lecture. AIDS and Surgery. HIV Clinic, San Francisco General Hospital.
11/19/1993 Attendee. California Burn Association meeting, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San
Jose, CA.
1/22/1994 Moderator, Case Presentations in Ethics. California Trauma Conference, San Francisco.
3/20/1994 Representative. Northern California Chapter, California Tri Chapter Meeting, American
College of Surgeons, Anaheim, California.
3/24/1994 Invited Lecture. Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support in Geriatric Surgical Patients.
Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco.
3/24/1994 Invited Lecture. In the Line of Fire. The Epidemic of Violence in America, co-sponsored
by the UCSF Center for Pre-Hospital Research and Training and the Democratic
Women's Forum, UCSF.
4/23/1994 Moderator, Trauma Panel. Naffziger Society Surgical Course, San Francisco.
4/22/1995 Invited Lecture. Blood-borne infections: The impact on surgical practice. University of
California, Irvine Symposium on the Surgeon and Blood-Borne Viral Pathogens in the
Operating Room. San Francisco.
4/22/1995 Moderator, Trauma Forum. Postgraduate Course in General Surgery, San Francisco,
California.
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5/16/1995 Violence in America - A Trauma Surgeon's Perspective. Tools for Hospital Trustees, San
Francisco.
10/16/1995 Instructor. APLS: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Course: American Academy of
Pediatrics. American College of Emergency Physicians. Stanford, CA.
11/30/1995 Honorary Co-Chairman, Annual Awards Dinner. Jack Berman Advocacy Center,
American Jewish Congress, Northern Pacific Region, St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco.
1/17/1996 Invited Lecture. Risk of perioperative HIV transmission. San Francisco Surgical Society,
San Francisco.
2/19/1996 Invited Discussant of Wisner D, Lo B. The feasibility of organ salvage from non-heart
beating trauma donors. Pacific Coast Surgical Association, San Diego.
4/26/1996 Invited Lecture. Complex Duodenal Injuries: Options for Management. UCSF
Postgraduate Surgery Course, San Francisco.
11/14/1996 Invited Lecture.. Gunshot wounds to the portahepatis. Clinical Pathological Conference.
UC Davis /East Bay Surgical Program Grand Rounds, Kaiser Foundation Hospital,
Oakland.
12/3/1996 Invited Lecture. Occupational transition of HIV infection. St. Joseph’s/Providence
Medical Center, Burbank, CA.
4/26/1997 Trauma Rounds, Naffziger Society Postgraduate Course in General Surgery, San
Francisco, CA.
5/10/1987 Death by Denial: The Ethics and Economics of Denial of Care. Northern California
Chapter, American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA..
1/27/1998 Invited Attendee: San Francisco Mayor’s Summit on HIV-AIDS. San Francisco, CA,
1/29/1988 Invited Lecture. Withholding and Withdrawing Support: A Surgeon’s Perspective. St.
Francis Hospital, San Francisco.
5/7/1998 Invited Lecture. Abdominal Trauma: Beyond the Basics. St. Luke’s Hospital, San
Francisco.
5/16/1998 Invited Attendee: Northern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons Annual
meeting, San Francisco.
11/18/1998 Morbidity and Mortality Conference. UCSF Grand Rounds, November 18, 1998.
4/13-15/2000 Schecter WP. Postgraduate General Surgery Course, UCSF, San Francisco, CA.
9/20/2000 Invited Lecture. Warfare in Medicine: A Historical Perspective. San Francisco Surgical
Society.
9/26/2000 Invited Lecture. HIV and Malignancy: Thoughts on Viral Oncogenesis at the Turn of the
Century. East Bay Surgical Society, Oakland, CA.
2/14/2001 Schecter WP. Warfare and Medicine: A Historical Perspective. Bay Area History of
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Medicine Club, San Francisco, CA.
11/7/2001 Invited Lecture. Jean Dominique de Larrey: Napoleon’s Surgeon. Trauma Continuing
Education Program for Nurses and Paramedics, Napa, California.
4/13/2002 Schecter WP. Design of Mass Casualty Disaster Plans for Civilian Hospitals.
Postgraduate General Surgery Course, UCSF, San Francisco, CA.
5/12-13/2003 Invited Lecture. California Trauma Course, Pasadena, California.
5/14/2003 Moderator and Lecturer on Trauma Panel, Hypotensive Resuscitation? University of
California, San Francisco Course on Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, California.
5/17/2003 Attendee. Northern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons Spring Meeting,
San Francisco, California.
5/22/2003 Invited Lecture. Baron Jean Dominique de Larrey. Trauma, Tots and Trends
Conference, Sacramento.
11/7-8/2003 Course Director, Advanced Trauma Life Support, San Francisco, California.
3/19/2005 Attendee. Postgraduate Course in General Surgery, Naffziger Society. San Francisco,
California.
4/7/2005 Invited Participant. Health Leadership Briefing, UCSF Lone Mountain Conference Center,
San Francisco.
4/29/2005 Invited Lecture. Civilian Hospital Response in Mass Casualty Events: The Israeli
Experience. Selected Topics in Intensive Respiratory Care. Respiratory Care Services,
Department of Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco at San Francisco
General Hospital, San Francisco, California.
5/12/2005 Invited Lecture.. Surgery and the Social Contract. Los Angeles Surgical Society.
5/12/2005 Attendee.. Trauma Symposium. High Risk Emergency Medicine Course, San
Francisco.
2/14/2006 Panel Presentation. Who’s Who in Cancer CARE, San Francisco, CA.
2/27/06 Instructor. Digestive System. Teaching in Integration and Consolidation. University of
California, San Francisco.
3/28/2006 Invited Lecture. Mass casualty events due to suicide bombing in Israel: Historical context
and clinical management. Contra Costa Jewish Community Center, Walnut Creek, CA.
5/6/06 Attendee. Northern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons meeting,
5/29/2006 Presentation. UCSF Department of Surgery Grand Rounds: Schecter WP, Fisher J,
Berguer R. Peri-operative Blood Borne Infections: Prevention Strategies.
6/10/2006 Moderator. Trauma and Surgical Emergencies. Critical Care Medicine & Trauma, San
Francisco, CA.
6/29/2006 Invited Speaker: Civilian Response to Mass Casualty Events: The Israeli Experience.
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Casualty and Disaster Preparedness Miniseries. John Muir Medical Center,Walnut
Creek, CA.
6/29/2006 Invited Lecture. Terrorist Mass Casualty Events in Israel: Historical Context and Clinical
Management. Richard J. Bartlett Memorial Lecture. St. Francis Memorial Hospital, San
Francisco, CA.
9/7/2006 Visiting Professor. ―The Open Abdomen‖ Department of Surgery. University of California,
Los Angeles. Morbidity and Mortality Conference and Rounds with Residents.
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9/19/2006 Panel Member. Trauma Surgery. The 12 Annual San Antonio Trauma Symposium.
The Trauma Institute of San Antonio, Texas.
10/4/2006 Invited Speaker. Recollections of the 2006 Lebanon War. Jewish Community Federation
of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties Israel Center.
10/5/2006 Invited Speaker: Operation Access – How we started the program. Operation Access
Event, Orange County, CA.
10/17/2006 Invited Lecture. Israeli Medical Response to the Lebanon War. St. Mary’s Hospital, San
Francisco, CA.
10/20/2006 Panelist. Guns or Butter: Just Allocation of Medical Measures. Medical Student Panel
Presentations, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA.
10/29/06 Invited Speaker. Recollections of the 2006 Lebanon War. Russian Jewish Federation,
Saratoga, California.
11/7/2006 Invited Speaker: Israeli Medical Response to the 2006 Lebanon War. Jewish Student
Association, University of California, San Francisco.
11/10/2006 Invited Speaker. Israeli Medical Response to the 2006 Lebanon War. California Pacific
Medical Center, Davies Campus, San Francisco, CA.
11/14/2006 Invited Lecture. End of Life Care. Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System CME
Program. Salinas, CA.
11/30/2006 Invited Lecture. Civilian Hospital Response to Mass Casualty Events. Visiting Professor,
Department of Surgery, Pasadena, CA.
2/22/2007 Invited Lecture. San Francisco Paramedics Association. San Francisco, CA.
03/08-9/2007 Visiting Professor. "Medieval Surgical Philosophy" and Surgical Response to Terrorism",
UCSF Department of Surgery East Bay Grand Rounds.
3/9/2007 Visiting Professor. ―Surgical Response to Terrorism‖. The East Bay Foundation for
Graduate Medical Education and the American College of Surgeons. Surgical Frontiers in
Tahoe, South Lake Tahoe, CA.
3/09/2007 Invited Lecture. Rationality and Revealed Religion: Lessons from the Life and Thought
of Moses Maimonides. Sacramento Surgical Society, South Lake Tahoe, CA.
3/9-11/2007 Patient Safety & Quality Improvement Committee meeting, American College of
Surgeons, Chicago, IL.
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3/14/2007 Invited Speaker. ―Terrorist Suicide Bombings in Israel: The Tragic History and the Heroic
Medical Response‖ Concordia Club, San Francisco, CA.
4/14/2007 Peer Review Poster Presentation. Ozgediz D, Schecter WP. Surgery and Global
Health:A Mandate for Service, Training, and Research. Unite for Sight Global
Health Conference, Stanford, CA.
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4/20/2007 Invited Speaker. 2 Annual San Francisco Orthopaedic Trauma Course, San Francisco,
CA.
5/9/2007 Invited Speaker. Battlefield Injuries in the Iraq War. Health Effects of the Iraq War. A
symposium at the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
5/16/07 Visiting Professor. Civilian Hospital Response to Mass Casualty Events. Santa Barbara
Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA.
5/25/2007 Panel Discussant. Trauma Panel – Evaluation and Resuscitation. SFGH Emergency
Services. San Francisco, CA
08/28/07 Visiting Professor. ―A Passion for Medicine‖. Grand Rounds. University of California,
Davis, Sacramento, CA.
08/28/07 Invited Speaker. ―Recollections of the Lebanon War: Summer 2006‖. Sacramento
Surgical Society, Sacramento, CA.
9/16/2007 Invited Speaker. ―Recollections of the Lebanon War: Summer 2006‖, Hadassah Medical
Organization, Carmel, California.
10/03/07 Invited Speaker. ―Response to injury caused by conventional or non-conventional
weapons: Are we ready? Fromm Institute Medical Lecture Series, University of San
Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
10/10/07 Presiding Officer.. S. Ravdin Lecture in Basic Scienceof the American College of
Surgeon's 93rd Annual Clinical Congress, October 7-11, 2007, New Orleans, LA.
11/14/07 Invited Speaker. ―Recollections of the Lebanon War: Summer 2006‖, Concordia Club,
San Francisco, CA.
1/13/08 Invited Speaker. Recollections of the Lebanon War July/August 2006. Congregation Bet
Haverim, Davis, CA.
2/1/08 Visiting Professor. Withholding and withdrawing support: A surgeon’s perspective. End
of Life Care. Medical Education Speakers Network, Dameron Hospital, Stockton, CA.
2/11-12/07 Visiting Professor. Civilian Response to a Mass Casualty Event: Basic Principles.
Enteroatmospheric fistulas in the Open Abdomen. St. Joseph’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ.
3/13/08 Invited Speaker. Open abdomen and enteroatmospheric fistulas. Los Angeles Surgical
Society, Los Angeles, CA.
3/29/08 Invited Speaker. Leon Goldman: The Coach. UCSF Naffziger Dinner, March 28, 2008.
06/07/08 Invited Lecturer. Abdominal Trauma. UCSF Critical Care Medicine and Trauma, San
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Francisco, CA.
1/07/09 Invited Speaker. Surgery and Global Health. UCSF Surgery Interest Group, San
Francisco, CA
2/04/09 Clinical Pathological Conference, Chronic Small Bowel Obstruction, UCSF Surgical Grand
Rounds, San Francisco, CA.
CME COURSES ATTENDED
1988 Pacific Coast Surgical Association Meeting, Oregon
1988 The Postgraduate Course in General Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
1988 Occupational HIV Infection: Risks , San Francisco, CA
1989 Occupational HIV Infection: Risks and Risk Reduction, San Francisco, CA
1989 California Trauma Conference, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
1990 Gastroenterology: Advances in Diagnosis, UCSF Postgraduate Program, Sasn
Francisco, CA
1990 Postgraduate Course in General Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, ca
1990 AIDS Update for Primary Care: New Hope in a New Era. Alta Bates, Herrick Hospital,
Berkeley, CA
1990 Laparoscopic Laser Cholecystectomy Workshop, California Medical Association, San
Francisco, CA, 10/6-7/1990
1991 Northern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA
1991 Western Trauma Association Meeting, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
1992 Cancer Management Course, American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA
1992 Continuing Medical Education Certificate January - December 1992, Mercy Medical
Center, Redding, CA
1992 13th Annual Trauma Update, Mercy Medical Center , Redding, CA
1992 Laparoscopic Hernia Course, Presbyterian Hospital, San Francisco, CA, May 30, 1992
1992 Advanced Laparoendoscopic Surgery Training Seminar, Annenberg Center at
Eisenhower, Rancho Mirage, CA
1992 Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, Palm Springs, CA
1993 Postgraduate Course in General Surgery, UCSF, Ssan Francisco, CA
1993 Northern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA
1993 Postgraduate Course in General Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
1993 46th Annual Cancer Symposium of hte Socieyt of Surgical Oncology, Texas
1994 How to Develop and Administer a Budget, San Francisco, CA
1994 Fifth Annual California Trauma Course, San Francisco, CA
1994 Postgraduate Course in General Surgery, UCSF, Sna Francisco, CA
1994 Northern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA
1994 Postgraduate Course in General Surgery, Sasn Francisco, CA
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1994 Geriatric Grand Rounds, UCSF/Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco, CA
1994 U.S. Army Institute for Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, Burn Course,
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX
1995 Northern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA
1996 Postgraduate General Surgery Course, San Francisco, CA
1996 Medtronic Training Program relating to the Theory and Practice of Vortex Blood Pumping
and its Clinical Applications, San Francisco, CA
1996 Lasers in Cutaneous and Cosmetic Surgery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Postgraduate Ultrasound Course. The Southwestern Surgical Congress, Scottsdale, AZ
1997 Postgraduate General Surgery Course, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
1997 Northern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA
1997 American Association for the Surgery of Trauma 57th Annual Meeting, San Diego
1997 Lymphatic Mapping Course, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
1998 Division of Gastroenterology Grand Rounds, San Francisco, CA
1998 Abdominal Trauma: Beyond the Basics, Speaker Grand Rounds, St. Luke's Hospital,
San Francisco, CA
1999 27th Annual Spring Meeting, American College of Surgeons, New York, NY
1999 Northern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA
1999 Ultrasound for Surgeons and Ultrasound in Trauma and Acute Setting, ACS 27th Annual
Meeting, New York, NY
2000 60th Annual Meeting, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, San Antonio,
Texas
2000 Postgraduate General Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
2000 Postgraduate Course in General Surgery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Pacific Coast Surgical Association, 17th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
2000 American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, San Antonio, Texas
2000 American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Seattle, Washington
2001 Pacific Coast Surgical Association, 72nd Annual Meeting, Banff, Canada
2001 Northern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA
2001 Medical Management of Chemical and Biological Casualties Course (6H-26), Fort
Detrick, MD
2002 Pacific Coast Surgical Association Meeting, 73rd Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, N V
2002 31st Annual Congress, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Illinois
2002 Northen California Chapter, American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA
2002 Postgraduate General Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
2002 Fundamental Critical Care Support Course, Society of Critical Care Medicine, San Diego,
California
2002 SESAP11 Audio Companion, American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA
2003 New Fontiers in Trauma and Critical Care, 10th Annual Trauma/Critical Care
Symposium, Pasadena, CA
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2003 Postgraduate Course in General Surgery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Pacific Coast Surgical Association Meeting, Monterey, CA
2003 Human Subject Protection: Basics Course, San Francisco, CA
2003 Western Sugical Association Meeting, American College of Surgeons, Tucson, AZ
2003 Laparoscopic Colectomy: Why are we waiting? Society of American Gastrointestinal
Endoscopic Surgeons Course, Chicago, IL
2003 American Society for Surgery of the Hand, 58th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
2003 International Trauma Congress, Trauma Society of South Africa, Durban, South Africa
2003 Trauma and Critical Care Symposium, Pasadena, CA
2003 Annual Meeting, Northern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons, San
Francisco, CA
2003 High-Risk Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, CA
2004 American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Maui, HI
2004 American Surgical Association Meeting, Florida
2005 Postgraduate Course in General Surgery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Pacific Coast Surgical Association meeting, Dana Point, CA
2005 Society of Critical Care Medicine, 34th Critical Care Congress, Phoenix, AZ
2005 Review of Article "Surgical Outcomes of HIV+ Patients in the Era of Highly Active Ani-
Retroviral Therapy, San Francisco, CA
2005 The Changing Practice of Anesthesia, San Francsico, CA
2006 High-Risk Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, CA
2006 Pacific Coast Surgical Association 77th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
2007 American Surgical Association 127th Annual Meeting sponsored by the American
College of Surgeons, Colorado Springs, Colorado
2007 Pacific Coast Surgical Association Meeting, Kohala Coast, Hawaii
2007 California Chapter, ACS Annual Educational Meeting, San Francisco, CA
2007 Department of Surgery Grand Rounds, San Francisco, CA
2007 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, New Orleans, LA
2007 American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Las Vegas, Nevada
2007 American Society of Anesthesiologists, San Francisco, CA
2007 Western Surgical Association, Colorado Springs, CO
2007 Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Meeting, San Francisco, CA
2008 Pacific Coast Surgical Association Meeting, Coronado, CA.
2008 Enteroatmospheric Fistula in the Open Abdomen, St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
2008 Civilian Response to Mass Casualty Events, St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
2008 American Surgical Association Meeting, New York, NY
2008 Worker Safety in Perioperative Services. Joint Commission Resources, Chicago, IL
2008 Perioperative Care Symposium., Chicago, IL
2008 Joint Sponsorship Program, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL
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2008 Abdominal Trauma, UCSF Critical Care Medicine and Trauma, San Francisco, CA
2008 UCSF Department of Surgery Grand Rounds. July 2007 - June 2008, San Francisco, CA
2008 Critical Care Medicine and Trauma, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, California
2008 The Postgraduate Course in General Surgery, University of California, San Francisco,
March 27-29.
2008 Highly Reliable Surgical Team Training. UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
2009 Pacific Coast Surgical Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA
UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC SERVICE
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
School of Medicine
1984-present Surgery Internship Application Committee Member
1985-86 Search Committee, Chief of Neurosurgery Member
1985-86 Search Committee, Chief of Surgery Member
1988-present UCSF AIDS Task Force Member
1990-91 Search Committee, Chief of Orthopedic Member
Surgery, SFGH
1990-93 Dean's Advisory Committee to AIDS Member
Clinical Research
1992-96 Class of 1996 Screening Committee Member
1992-93 UCSF Ad hoc Promotion Committee Member
1993-97 HRSA/AIDS Education and Training Consultant
Centers
1993-97 HRSA/AIDS Education and Training Surgery Consultant
Centers, National H IV Telephone
Consultation Service (Warmline)
1994-95 ,Ad hoc Committee on Resident Chairperson
Assistant's Training Program
1995-96 Department of Surgery Residency Review
Committee
1996 Dean's Task Force on AIDS Member
1996 UCSF, Department of Public Health Member
Retreat
1997-98 Search Committee, Chief of OB-Gyn, Chairperson
SFGH
1998 Selection Committee for the 1998 Kaiser Member
Award for Excellence in Teaching
1998-99 Search Committee, Chief of Anesthesia, Member
SFGH
2000 Search Committee, Chief of Thoracic Chairperson
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Surgery at SFGH
2000 Advanced Clinical Studies Committee Member
2001 Search Committee, Chief of Pathology Chairperson
Service at SFGH
2001-02 Search Committee, Chief of Vascular Chairperson
Surgery
2002-03 Search Committee, Director of Surgical Chairperson
Laboratory at SFGH
2004-05 Search Committee, Assistant Professor of Chairperson
Surgery/Critical Care at SFGH
2005-present Search Committee, Chief of Radiology at Member
SFGH
9/1/07-8/31/10 School of Medicine Faculty Council Council Member
2009-Now School of Medicine Faculty Council Vice-Chair
07/31/07-Now Search Committee, Assistant Professor, Member
Plastic Surgery
2006-Now Oversight Committee of the Global Health Member
Scholars Program (GHCSP)
2008-2009 Kaiser Awards Committee, UCSF Chair
2008 Search Committee, Urology - Trauma Member
Reconstructive Position/Assistant
Professor
2008 Service and Promotions Committee Member
HOSPITAL SERVICE:
1980-81 Tumor Board Member
1980-81 Cancer Committee Member
1980-81 Utilization Review Committee Member
1980-81 Cancer Committee Member
1980-81 Utilization Review Committed Member
1980-81 Tumor Board Member
1984-present Cancer Committee Member
1984-present Tumor Board Member
1985-present Critical Care Committee Member
1985-present Ethics Committee Member
1986-81 Committee to Formulate Indications for Member
Organ Donation
1986-81 Operating Room Committee Member
1986 Antibiotic Advisory Committee Member
1986 Credentials Committee Member
1986 Credentials Committee Member
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1987 Committee to Develop Policies for HIV Member
Infection Control in the Operating Room
2006 Committee to discuss Collaboration Chair
between Surgery and Medicine in Patient
Care and an attachment regarding the
hospitalist role in care of surgical service.
2006 Committee to Consider Establishment of a Chair
Sepsis Team
PUBLIC SERVICE:
1980 Public Service documentary. "Send Us Your Poor" T.V.
1981 Appeared in Teaching Film Demonstrating Splenorrhaphy
1981-85 Investigative Committee chaired by Senator Invited testimony on the effects of assault
Diane Feinstein weapon
1992 San Francisco General Hospital Member, Board of Directors, Trauma
Foundation
1993-1997 UCSF Department of Family and Surgery Consultant HRSA/AIDS Education
Community Medicine and Training Centers, National HIV
Telephone Consultation Service (Warmline)
1994-present Operation Access President, Board of Directors
1998-present San Francisco General Hospital Member, Board of Directors
Foundation
TEACHING and MENTORING
FORMAL SCHEDULED CLASSES FOR UCSF STUDENTS:
Qtr Academic Year Course Number and Title Teaching Contribution Units Class Size
1979-81 110, Surgery 0 0
1979-81 Intensive Care Unit 0 0
1979-81 Introduction to Clinical Medicine 0 0
1979-81 Trauma 0 0
1979-81 Emergency 0 4
1979-81 Emergency 0 0
1979-81 Surgery 0 0
1984- 131A-B, Medicine 0 0
1984- Medicine 140.01 0 0
1984- 140.06, Medicine 0 0
1984- 110, Surgery 0 0
1984- 111, Surgery 0 0
1984- 111, Surgery 0 0
POSTGRADUATE AND OTHER COURSES
1984 General Surgical Staff Conference, San Conferences, case presentations, lectures,
Francisco General Hospital death and complications discussions.
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1984 General Surgical Staff Conference , San Ward Rounds, pre and post-op
Francisco General Hospital management.
1984 Clinical Surgery, San Francisco General
Hospital
INFORMAL TEACHING:
1984-present Surgical Attending (Discuss with residents on cases. Teach residents in operating room
and patient rounds.)
1984-present Outpatient Clinic (Discuss cases and teach surgical techniques to students and
residents, come and go.)
TEACHING AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS:
1989 Outstanding Leadership in Clinical Nomination
Preceptorship,
1990 UCSF Surgical Residents Excellence in Award
Teaching Award
1991 Henry J. Kaiser, Excellence in Teaching Award
Award
1992 Henry J. Kaiser Excellence in Teaching Nomination
Award
1995 John V. Carbone Award for Excellence in Award
Clinical I
1999 UCSF Surgical Residents Recognition for Award
Excellence
2000 Henry J. Kaiser Award for Teaching Award
Excellence
2001 UCSF Surgical Residents Recognition for Award
Excellence
2001 Clinical Faculty Teaching Award Nomination
2005 Excellence in Direct Teaching Award Award
2006 Henry J. Kaiser Excellence in Teaching Award
Award
SUMMARY OF TEACHING HOURS:
2004-05 2000 total hours of teaching (including preparation).
Formal class or course teaching hours: 2000 hours.
Informal teaching hours: 0 hours.
2005-06 2000 total hours of teaching (including preparation).
Formal class or course teaching hours: 2000 hours.
Informal teaching hours: 0 hours.
2006-07 2000 total hours of teaching (including preparation).
Formal class or course teaching hours: 2000 hours.
Informal teaching hours: 0 hours.
TEACHING NARRATIVE
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Additional Academic Activities since January 1, 2004
I was on Sabbatical for 6 months serving as a Visiting Professor of Surgery at the Sha’arei Zedek Medical
Center in Jerusalem, a campus of the Ben Gurion University. I gave a 15 week course to the hospital staff
in Trauma Care. In addition I helped organize and conduct two 2 day Trauma Courses for the Physician
Staff. I have given the following lectures since January 1, 2004:
Introduction to Trauma Care
Initial Approach to the Injured Patient
Airway Management
Shock
Management of Chest Trauma
Management of Abdominal Trauma
Management of Head Trauma
I am also studying the Management of Mass Casualty Events. Unfortunately, we have had two suicide bus
bombings since I arrived in Jerusalem and I played a major role in the management of the mass casualty
event on both occasions. This experience has resulted in the submission of two abstracts dealing with
various aspects of organization for mass casualty events. One was submitted to an International Congress
on the Medical Aspects of Terrorism and the second was submitted to the American Association for the
Surgery of Trauma. I have not yet heard whether the abstracts were accepted for presentation. We are
planning a review of the spectrum of injury resulting from Terrorist Bombing incidents to help better plan
for the management of these patients.
CME COURSES TAUGHT
Advanced Trauma Life Support Instructor and Provider Course Director and Instructor:
Sponsored by the American College of Surgeons
2001 Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider Instructor
Course, American College of Surgeons
2001 Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider Course Director/Instructor
Course, American College of Surgeons
2002 Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider Course Director/Instructor
Course, American College of Surgeons
2002 Fundamental Critical Care Course Director, Course Director/Instructor
Society of Critical Care Medicine
2002 Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider Instructor
Course, American College of Surgeons
2003 Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider Course Director/Instructor
Course, American College of Surgeons
2003 Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider Course Director/Instructor
Course, American College of Surgeons
2005 Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider Course Director/Instructor
Course, American College of Surgeons
2005 Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider Course Director/Instructor
Course, American College of Surgeons
2006 Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider Course Director/Instructor
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Course, American College of Surgeons
2006 Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider Course Director/Instructor
Course, American College of Surgeons
2007 Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider Course Director/Instructor
Course, American College of Surgeons
2008 Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider Course Director/Instructor
Course, American College of Surgeons
UCSF SURGICAL GRAND ROUNDS:
Management of peripheral nerve injuries, April, 1980.
Soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities, November 15, 1980.
Chest trauma: A review of the San Francisco General Hospital Experience, April, 1985
Surgical management of peptic ulcer disease, November, 1986
Clinical Pathologic Conference - Gastrointestinal lymphoma
Pulmonary thromboembolism, November, 1987
Anorectal malignancy: A review of the San Francisco General Hospital Experience April, 1985
Surgical management of peptic ulcer disease, November 1986
Clinical Pathologic Conference - Gastrointestinal lymphoma
Pulmonary thromboembolism, November, 1987
Anorectal malignancy: A review, 1990
Journal Club: Withholding and withdrawing intensive care, 3/20/90
Abdominal trauma: The surgeon and the gastroenterologist, 3/21/90
Are physicians obligated to treat HIV infected patients - A Jewish perspective, UCSF Ethics Grand
Rounds, May 15, 1990.
Family Practice Grand Rounds: Schecter W., Breast Cancer: Current management. November 14,
1990.
UCSF Gastroenterology Grand Rounds: GI Surgery in the Era of HIV infection, January 8, 1991.
UCSF Surgical Grand Rounds: AIDS and Surgery, April 22, 1992.
AIDS and the Surgeon: UCSF Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Grand Rounds, September 22, 1992.
UCSF Gastroenterology Division Grand Rounds: The Acute Surgical Abdomen: Evaluation and
management, July 22, 1998.
UCSF Surgical Morbidity and Mortality Conference, Moderator, August 19, 1998.
UCSF Surgical Grand Rounds: HIV and Malignancy: Thoughts on Viral Oncogenesis at the Turn of the
Century, September 27, 2000.
UCSF Surgical Grand Rounds: Intestinal Failure after a Gunshot Wound to the Superior Mesenteric Vein:
Principles of Management, September 3, 2003.
Invited Lecture, UCSF Medical Student Forum on Social Activism and Clinical Medicine, October 29,
2003.
Mass Casualty Events, UCSF Grand Rounds, March 2005.
Perioperative Transmission of Blood Borne Infections, UCSF Grand Rounds, April 2006.
Morbidity and Mortality Conference, April 26, 2006.
Current Options for Emergency Management, March 24, 2007.
Clinical Pathological Conference, Chronic Small Bowel Obstruction, UCSF Surgical Grand Rounds,
February 4, 2009.
SUMMARY OF TEACHING HOURS
Hours of teaching previous year = 2000
Hours of teaching = 2000
Anticipated teaching = 2000
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TEACHING NARRATIVE:
Summary of Service Activities:
Dr. Schecter spent a Sabbatical between January 1 and June 30, 2004 at the Shaare Zedek Medical
Center in Jerusalem, Israel, studying civilian hospital response to mass casualty events.
Dr. Schecter has served as President of the San Francisco Surgical Society, President of the Northern
California Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Governor of the American College of Surgeons,
President of the Board of Directors of Operation Access (a non-profit corporation providing
uncompensated surgical services to the uninsured) and Vice-President of the Pacific Coast Surgical
Association. In April 2004, he was elected as a Director of the American Board of Surgery. He currently
serves as Co-Chair of the San Francisco General Hospital Disaster Committee.
Dr. Schecter’s clinical interests involve the surgery of poverty: trauma, soft tissue infections related to
drug use and alcoholism, advanced malignancy related to poor access to health care and the surgical
treatment of HIV infected patients.
RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES:
RESEARCH PROGRAM:
My clinical research efforts are in four general areas:
1. The investigation of clinical surgical problems related to injury and infection
2. The investigation of clinical surgical problems related to HIV infection
3. The investigation of the prevalence of exposure to blood-borne infections during surgery and the
best methods to reduce the risk of exposure
4. Ethical issues in surgical practice relating to the treatment of HIV-infected patients and end of life
decisions, particularly related to intensive care
5. Civilian hospital response to mass casualty events.
I have also been intimately involved in a project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled,
―Operation Access.‖ Operation Access is a 501C-3 Non-Profit Corporation that serves as a coalition of
physicians, nurses and hospitals which provides uncompensated, low-risk outpatient surgery to uninsured
patients. This program began as a pilot project at the Kaiser, San Francisco Hospital which led to a
publication of our early experience in the Archives of Surgery in 1995. Since that time, UCSF/Mt. Zion
Hospital and San Francisco General Hospital joined the coalition in San Francisco and we have expanded
our operations to Contra Costa, Alameda, San Mateo and Marin Counties. The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation grant ended and we are now a self-sustaining, independently funded organization. This
organization has been sponsored by the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, the
San Francisco Medical Society, the Alameda County Medical Society, and the Northern California Chapter
of the American College of Surgeons. Operation Access has been replicated in Delaware and
Sacramento and parts of our program have been used in San Diego. I plan to devote a significant portion
of my research time to this continuing project to increase access of uninsured patients to surgical care.
In the past two years, I have worked to establish the West Coast branch of MedShare International, a
501C-3 Non-Profit Corporation which acquires, stores and ships medical equipment to hospitals in
developing countries. We opened up a 10,000 sq. ft. warehouse in San Leandro in the fall of 2008 and
made our first container shipment of equipment to a hospital in Ecuador in January 2009. We anticipate
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several more container shipments from our warehouse in this calendar year. I serve on the Advisory
Council for the Western Region of MedShare International.
PEER REVIEW PUBLICATIONS:
1. Effeney DJ, Lim RC, Schecter WP. Transmetatarsal amputation. Arch Surg,
Nov/1977;112(11):1366-70.
2. Schecter WP, Wilson RS. Management of upper airway obstruction in the intensive care unit. Crit
Care Med, Aug/1981;9(8):577-9.
3. Schecter W, Meyer A, Schecter G, Giuliano A, Newmeyer W, Kilgore E. Necrotizing fasciitis of the
upper extremity. J Hand Surg [Am], Jan/1982;7(1):15-20.
4. Schecter WP, Wong D, Kilgore ES, Newmeyer WL, Howes EL, Clark G. Peripartum
pseudomalignant myositis ossificans of the finger. J Hand Surg [Am], Jan/1982;7(1):43-6.
5. Mills J, Slutkin G, Klein D, Schecter W. Ceftizoxime compared with cefamandole for treatment of
soft tissue infections. J Antimicrob Chemother, Nov/1982;10 Suppl C:273-9.
6. Schecter W, Rintel T, Slutkin G, Schecter G, Tuato'o V. Tropical pyomyositis of the iliacus muscle
in American Samoa. Am J Trop Med Hyg, Jul/1983;32(4):809-11.
7. Schecter WP, Peper E, Tuatoo V. Can general surgery improve the outcome of the head-injury
victim in rural America? A review of the experience in American Samoa. Arch Surg,
Oct/1985;120(10):1163-6.
8. Jeffrey RB, Laing FC, Schecter WP, Markison RE, Barton RM:. Acute suppurative tenosynovitis of
the hand. Diagnosis with ultrasound. Radiol, 1987;162:741-742.
9. Gosain A, Markison RE, Schecter WP. Temporary colostomy for trauma. A new method to
simplify colostomy closure. Dis Colon Rectum, Mar/1987;30(3):220-2.
10. Brunel W, Stoll J, May K, Markison RE, Schecter WP. Routine intensiver care unit admission is
not indicated for suspected myocardial contusion. J Intens Care Med, 1988;3:253-7.
11. Brunel W, Schecter WP, Schecter G. Hand deformity and sensory loss due to Hansen's disease
in American Samoa. J Hand Surg [Am], Mar/1988;13(2):279-83.
12. Clark GC, Schecter WP, Trunkey DD. Variables affecting outcome in blunt chest trauma: flail
chest vs. pulmonary contusion. J Trauma, Mar/1988;28(3):298-304.
13. Hill AC, Schecter WP, Mori H, Stevens MB, Husseni W, Lim RC, Hoffman JI. The effect of
verapamil on cerebral cortical and spinal cord blood flow during proximal descending thoracic
aortic occlusion. J Trauma, Aug/1988;28(8):1214-9.
14. Schecter WP, Markison RE, Jeffrey RB, Barton RM, Laing F. Use of sonography in the early
detection of suppurative flexor tenosynovitis. J Hand Surg (Am), 1989;14((2 Pt 1):307-10.
15. Schecter WP, Markison RE, Jeffrey RB, Barton RM, Laing F. Sonography facilitates the early
diagnosis of acute suppurative flexor tenosynovitis. J Hand Surgery, 1989;14A:1214-1219.
16. Smedira NG, Evans BH, Grais LS, Cohen NH, Lo B, Cooke M, Schecter WP, Fink C, Epstein-
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Jaffe E, May C. Withholding and withdrawal of life support from the critically ill. N Engl J Med,
Feb/1/1990;322(5):309-15.
17. Cobb JP, Schecter WP, Russell T. Giant malignant tumors of the anus. A strategy for
management. Dis Colon Rectum, Feb/1990;33(2):135-7; discussion 137-8.
18. Gerberding JL, Littell C, Tarkington A, Brown A, Schecter WP. Risk of exposure of surgical
personnel to patients' blood during surgery at San Francisco General Hospital. N Engl J Med,
Jun/21/1990;322(25):1788-93.
19. Lorenz HP, Wilson W, Leigh B, Schecter WP. Kaposi's sarcoma of the rectum in patients with the
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Am J Surg, Dec/1990;160(6):681-2; discussion 682-3.
20. Lorenz HP, Wilson W, Leigh B, Crombleholme T, Schecter W. Squamous cell carcinoma of the
anus and HIV infection. Dis Colon Rectum, Apr/1991;34(4):336-8.
21. Burke EC, Orloff SL, Freise CE, Macho JR, Schecter WP. Wound healing after anorectal surgery
in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients. Arch Surg, Oct/1991;126(10):1267-70;
discussion 1270-1.
22. Schecter WP. Surgical care of the HIV-infected patient: a moral imperative. Camb Q Healthc
Ethics, 1992;1(3):223-8.
23. Schecter WP. Surgical care of the HIV-infected patient: A moral imperative. Cambridge Quarterly
of Healthcare Ethics, 1992;1:223-228.
24. Lorenz HP, Steinmetz B, Lieberman J, Schecter WP, Macho JR. Emergency thoracotomy:
survival correlates with physiologic status. J Trauma, Jun, 1992;32((6)):780-5; discussion 785-8..
25. Macho JR, Markison RE, Schecter WP. Cardiac stapling in the management of penetrating
injuries of the heart: rapid control of hemorrhage and decreased risk of personal contamination. J
Trauma, May/1993;34(5):711-5; discussion 715-6.
26. Duke BJ, Modin GW, Schecter WP, Horn JK. Transfusion significantly increases the risk for
infection after splenic injury. Arch Surg, Oct/1993;128(10):1125-30; discussion 1131-2.
27. Braveman P, Schaaf VM, Egerter S, Bennett T, Schecter W. Insurance-related differences in the
risk of ruptured appendix. N Engl J Med, Aug/18/1994;331(7):444-9.
28. Whitney TM, Brunel W, Russell TR, Bossart KJ, Schecter WP. Emergent abdominal surgery in
AIDS: experience in San Francisco. Am J Surg, Sep/1994;168(3):239-43.
29. Campbell A, Vittinghoff E, Morabito D, Payne M, Shagoury C, Praetz P, Grey D, McAninch J,
Schecter W. Trauma centers in a managed care environment J Trauma, 1995;39(2):246-253.
30. Schecter WP, Grey D, Burik J, Caldwell C, Elder D, Neumann P, Hofmann P. Volunteer low-risk
outpatient surgery for uninsured patients in San Francisco. The Ambulatory Surgery Access
Coalition. Arch Surg, Jul/1995;130(7):778-80; discussion 781.
31. Duh QY, Siperstein AE, Clark OH, Schecter WP, Horn JK, Harrison MR, Hunt TK, Way LW.
Laparoscopic adrenalectomy. Comparison of the lateral and posterior approaches. Arch Surg,
Aug/1996;131(8):870-5; discussion 875-6.
32. Strear CM, Jarnagin WR, Schecter WP, Mackersie RC, Hickey MS. Gastric rupture and tension
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pneumoperitoneum complicating cardiopulmonary resuscitation J Trauma, 1998;44:930-932.
33. Callahan TE, Schecter WP, Horn JK. Necrotizing soft tissue infection masquerading as cutaneous
abcess following illicit drug injection. Arch Surg, Aug/1998;133(8):812-7; discussion 817-9.
34. Harris HW, Morabito DJ, Mackersie RC, Halvorsen RA, Schecter WP. Leukocytosis and free fluid
are important indicators of isolated intestinal injury after blunt trauma. J Trauma,
Apr/1999;46(4):656-9.
35. Shen WT, Lim RC, Siperstein AE, Clark OH, Schecter WP, Hunt TK, Horn JK, Duh QY.
Laparoscopic vs open adrenalectomy for the treatment of primary hyperaldosteronism. Arch Surg,
Jun/1999;134(6):628-31; discussion 631-2.
36. O'Neill BB, Gosnell JE, Lull RJ, Schecter WP, Koch J, Halvorsen RA, Harris HW. Cinematic
nuclear scintigraphy reliably directs surgical intervention for patients with gastrointestinal bleeding.
Arch Surg, Sep/2000;135(9):1076-81; discussion 1081-2.
37. Siobal M, Kallet RH, Kraemer R, Jonson E, Lemons D, Young D, Campbell AR, Schecter W,
Tang J. Tracheo-innominate artery fistula caused by the endotracheal tube tip: A case report and
investigation of a fatal complication of prolonged intubation. Respir Care , 2001;46:1012-8.
38. Miller G, Schecter WP, Harris HW. Gallbladder ascariasis in a patient with severe pancreatitis.
Surgery, Apr/2003;133(4):445-6.
39. Harris H, Barcia A, Schell M, Thoeni R, Schecter W. Necrotizing pancreatitis: a surgical approach
independent of documented infection. HPB (Oxford), 2004;6(3):161-8.
40. Young DM, Harris HW, Charlebois ED, Chambers H, Campbell A, Perdreau-Remington F, Lee C,
Mankani M, Mackersie R, Schecter WP. An epidemic of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus soft tissue infections among medically underserved patients. Arch Surg,
Sep/2004;139(9):947-51; discussion 951-3.
41. Schecter WP, Fry DE,. The surgeon and acts of civilian terrorism: chemical agents. J Am Coll
Surg, Jan/2005;200(1):128-35.
42. Schecter WP. Nuclear, biological and chemical weapons: what the surgeon needs to know. Scand
J Surg, 2005;94(4):293-9.
43. Fry DE, Schecter WP, Parker JS, Quebbeman EJ,. The surgeon and acts of civilian terrorism:
biologic agents. J Am Coll Surg, Feb/2005;200(2):291-302.
44. Ozgediz D, Roayaie K, Debas H, Schecter W, Farmer D. Surgery in developing countries:
essential training in residency. Arch Surg, Aug/2005;140(8):795-800.
45. Schecter WP, Klassen C, O'Connor P, Potts M, Ochitill H. Suicide: the unmet challenge of the
trauma system. Arch Surg, Sep/2005;140(9):902-4.
46. Schecter WP, Farmer D, Horn JK, Pietrocola DM, Wallace A. Special considerations in
perioperative pain management: audiovisual distraction, geriatrics, pediatrics, and pregnancy. J
Am Coll Surg, Oct/2005;201(4):612-8.
47. Yeh MW, Horn JK, Schecter WP, Chuter TA, Lane JS. Endovascular repair of an actively
hemorrhaging gunshot injury to the abdominal aorta. J Vasc Surg, Nov/2005;42(5):1007-9.
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48. Avidan V, Hersch M, Armon Y, Spira R, Aharoni D, Reissman P, Schecter WP. Blast lung injury:
clinical manifestations, treatment, and outcome. Am J Surg, Dec/2005;190(6):927-31.
49. Cohen MJ, Schecter WP. Perioperative pain control: a strategy for management. Surg Clin North
Am, Dec/2005;85(6):1243-57, xi.
50. Fry DE, Schecter WP, Hartshorne MF. The surgeon and acts of civilian terrorism: radiation
exposure and injury. J Am Coll Surg, Jan/2006;202(1):146-54.
51. Carmon M, Olsha O, Schecter WP, Raveh D, Reinus C, Hershko DD, Beller U, Golomb E. The
"Sentinel Chain": a new concept for prediction of axillary node status in breast cancer patients.
Breast Cancer Res Treat, Jun/2006;97(3):323-8.
52. Einav S, Spira RM, Hersch M, Reissman P, Schecter W. Surgeon and hospital leadership during
terrorist-related multiple-casualty events: a coup d'état. Arch Surg, Aug/2006;141(8):815-22.
53. Schecter WP, Ivatury RR, Rotondo MF, Hirshberg A. Open abdomen after trauma and abdominal
sepsis: a strategy for management. J Am Coll Surg, Sep/2006;203(3):390-6.
54. Einav S, Schecter WP. Disaster management: Who’s in charge? Sounding Board. American
Journal of Disaster Medicine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November/December 2006.
55. Chang TT, Schecter WP. Injury in the elderly and end-of-life decisions. Surg Clin North Am,
Feb/2007;87(1):229-45, viii.
56. Schecter SC, McAninch JW, Schecter WP. Subcutaneous unilateral testicle implantation following
contralateral orchiectomy and radical debridement for Fournier's Gangrene: 24-year follow-up. J
Trauma, Mar/14/2007.
57. Avidan V, Hersch M, Spira RM, Einav S, Goldberg S, Schecter W. Civilian hospital response to a
mass casualty event: the role of the intensive care unit. J Trauma, May/2007;62(5):1234-9.
58. Jamshidi R, Schecter WP. Biological dressings for the management of enteric fistulas in the open
abdomen: a preliminary report. Arch Surg, Aug/2007;142(8):793-6.
59. Schecter WP. A Passion for Medicine: A commencement address to the Class of 2007. J Surg
Education;March/April 2008 issue volume 65(2):166-73.
60. Guzman P, Schecter WP. Global Health Opportunities in Surgery: A Guide for Medical Students
and Faculty Journal of Surgical Education September/October 2008 issue, volume 65(5).
61. Rogers SJ, Cello JP, Horn, JK, Siperstein AE, Schecter WP, Campbell AR, Mackersie RC, Rodas
A, Kreuwel HTC, Harris HW. Prospective randomized trial of laparoscopic cholecystectomy p0lus
laparoscopic common bile duct exploration (LC + LCBDE) versus endoscopic retrograde
cholangiopancreatography sphincterotomy plus laparoscopic cholecystectomy (ERCP/S + LC) for
common bile duct stone disease. Accepted for publication.
NON-PEER REVIEW PUBLICATIONS:
CHAPTERS:
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1. Clark JL, Schecter WP, Hardimann J: Anesthesia for the burn patient. Anesthesia for the burn
patient. Editor(s): Lebowitz P. Clinical Anesthesia Procedures of the Massachusetts General
Hospital: Little, Brown and Co., Boston. 1978.
2. Clark JL, Schecter WP, Hardimann J. Anesthesia for the burn patient, 2nd Ed. Editor(s): Liebowitz
P. Clinical Anesthesia Procedures of the Massachusetts General Hospital.: Little, Brown and Col.,
Boston. 1982.
3. Hill AC, Schecter WP, Trunkey DD. Trauma: Secondary triage in the ICU. Editor(s): Civetta,
Taylor and Kirby. Critical Care: 537-542, 1986.
4. Cobb LM, Schecter WP. Surgical aspects of refugee health care. Editor(s): Saddler and Jones.
Medical Care of Refugees: Oxford University Press, New York. 155-179., 1987.
5. Hill AC, Schecter WP, Trunkey DD. Indications for exploratory laparotomy. Editor(s): Mattox KL,
Moore EE, Feliciano DV. Trauma: Appleton and Lange, San Mateo. 401-16., 1988.
6. Hill AC, Schecter WP, Trunkey DD. Reoperation in abdominal trauma. Editor(s): Tompkins RK.
Reoperative Surgery: J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. 253-80, 1988.
7. Smedira N, Schecter WP. AIDS and the Trauma Care Provider. Editor(s): Maull KI. Advances in
Surgery 4: 67-88, 1989.
8. Schecter WP. Surgery of AIDS-related conditions: A San Francisco Perspective. Editor(s): Sim
AJW, Jeffries DJ. AIDS and Surgery: Oxford, Blackwell-Scientific Publications, Ltd., 38-42, 1990.
9. Wilson W, Schecter WP. Hypothermia and frostbite. Editor(s): Bongard F, Wilson SE, Perry MO.
Vascular Injuries in Surgical Practice: Appleton-Lange, Norwalk. 253-60, 1991.
10. Schecter WP. Precautions in the operating room for HIV-infected patients and patients with
hepatitis. Editor(s): Howard RJ. Infectious Risks in Surgery: Appleton & Lange, Norwalk. 97-109,
1991.
11. Allen-Mersch TG, Gottesman LG, Miles AJG, Wilson JW, Northover JMA, Schecter WP, Stotter
A. The management of anorectal disease in HIV-positive patients: A Symposium. Editor(s):
Nicholls RJ, McCortensen NJ, Northover JMA. Topics in Colorectal Disease: Berlin, Springer-
Verlag, New York. 145-156, 1991.
12. Schecter WP. Rectal injury. Editor(s): Trunkey DD, Lewis FR. Current Therapy of Trauma: B.C.
Decker, Philadelphia. 258-9, 1991.
13. Schecter WP. Lower extremity/soft tissue injury. Editor(s): Trunkey DD, Lewis FR. Current
Therapy of Trauma: B.C. Decker, Philadelphia. 291-4, 1991.
14. Schecter WP. Examination of the anus and rectum in the HIV infected patient. Editor(s): Allen-
Mersh and Gottesman L. Anorectal Disease in AIDS: Edward Arnold, London. 75-86, 1991.
15. Schecter WP. Rectal injury. Editor(s): Trunkey DD, Lewis FR. Current Therapy of Trauma: B.C.
Decker, Philadelphia. 258-9, 1991.
16. Macho JR, Schecter WP. General surgery in the patient with AIDS. Editor(s): Braverman MH,
Tawes RL. Surgical Technology International II: International Developments in Surgery and
Surgical Research:, Hong Kong. 219-224, 1993.
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17. Macho JR, Schecter WP. Care of patients with environmental injuries. Editor(s): Bongard FS, Sue
DY. Current Critical Care, Diagnosis and Treatment: Appleton and Lange, Connecticut. 716-730,
1994.
18. Jarnagin WR, Schecter WP. Anorectal diseases in the HIV-infected patients. Editor(s): Wilson SE,
Williams RA. Surgical Problems in the AIDS Patient: Igaku-Shoin, New York. 1994.
19. Schecter WP. Ethical Considerations. Editor(s): Moylan JA. Surgical Critical Care: Mosby-
Yearbook, Inc., St. Louis. 31-40, 1994.
20. Schecter WP. Surgery in HIV infected Patients, 2nd Ed. Editor(s): Cohen PT, Sande MA,
Volberding PA. The AIDS Knowledge Base: Little, Brown & Company, Boston. 4.121-4.12, 1994.
21. Schecter WP. Anus and rectum. Editor(s): Macho J and Cable G. Everyone's Guide to Outpatient
Surgery: Andrews and McMeel, Kansas City. 85-92, 1994.
22. Schecter WP, Albo RJ. Removal of rectal foreign bodies, Third Ed. Editor(s): Nihus LM, Baker RJ,
Fischer JE. Mastery of Surgery: Little, Brown and Company, Boston. 1555-59, 1997.
23. Schecter WP. Surgery in HIV-infected patients, Third Ed. Editor(s): Cohen PT, Sande MA,
Volberding PA. The AIDS Knowledge Base: Lippincott-Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia. 363-
367, 1999.
24. Harris HW, Schecter WP. Emergency abdominal surgery. Editor(s): Flum DR, Wallack MK. The
Role of Surgery in AIDS: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia. 35-52, 1999.
25. Schecter WP. Peritoneum and acute abdomen. Editor(s): Norton JA, Bollinger RR, Chang AE,
Lowry SF, Mulvihill SJ, Pass HI, Thompson RW. Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence:
Springer-Verlag, Inc., New York. 1-8, 2000.
26. Harris HW, Schecter PW. HIV and the management of soft tissue infections. Editor(s): Jager H.
AIDS und HIV-Infektionen: Ecomed Landsberg, 1-8, 2000.
27. Gosnell JE, Harris HW, Jan J, Schecter WP. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection. Editor(s):
Bland KI. The Practice of General Surgery: W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia. 38-47, 2002.
28. Macho Jr, Schecter WP. Care of patients with environmental injuries. Editor(s): Bongard FS, Sue
DY. Current Critical Care: Diagnosis and Treatment: Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, New
York. 838-882, 2002.
29. Fox JM, Schecter W, Stollman N. Diverticular Disease in Wexner SD, Stollman N (eds).
Diseases of the Colon. Informa Healthcare USA Inc., New York, 2007, pp 399-435.
30. Dicker R, Schecter WP. Civilian Hospital Response to Mass Casualty Events: In: Asensio JA
and Trunkey DD. Current Therapy in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care. Mosby/Elsevier,
Philadelphia, PA, pp. 67-73, 2008.
31. Jamshidi R, Schecter WP. Peritonitis. Editor: Chin RL. Emergency Management of Infectious
Diseases. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, pp. 53-58., 2008.
32. Dagi TF, Schecter WP. Preparation of the Operating Room. Basic Surgical and Perioperative
Considerations. In: ACS Surgery: Principles and Practice. 2008 BC Decker, Inc., Philadelphia.
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OTHER NON-PEER REVIEW ARTICLE
1. Langdale L, Schecter WP. Critical care complications in the trauma patient. Crit Care Clin. 1986
Oct;2(4):839-52.
2. Smedira N, Schecter WP: Blunt abdominal trauma. Emerg Med Clin North Am 1989;7:63.
3. Schecter WP: HIV Transmission to Surgeons: Assessment of risk, infection control precautions,
and standards of conduct. Occupational Medicine - State of the Art Reviews: Occupational HIV
infection: Risks and Risk Reduction. 1989:4:65-69.
4. Schecter WP: AIDS: Risks to the Surgeon. Audio Digest Orthopedics, 1989; 12:14:50-28:50.
5. Chadwick SJD, Schecter WP, Sim AJM: Effects of HIV Infection on General Surgery. Hospital
Update. 1989;15:518-529.
6. Schecter WP: Surgery of AIDS-related conditions: A San Francisco perspective. In: Sim AJW,
Jeffries DJ (eds). AIDS and Surgery, Oxford, Blackwell-Scientific Publications, Ltd. 1990;38-42.
7. Schecter WP: HIV infection and hand surgery. American Society for Surgery of the Hand,
Correspondence Newsletter, November 29, 1989.
8. Schecter WP: Commentary on Rectal Injuries: Do adjunctive procedures affect outcome in
patients treated with colostomy and drainage. Colon and Rectal Surgery Outlook 1989; 2:5-6.
9. Allen-Mersch TG, Gottesman LG, Miles AJG, Wilson JW, Northover JMA, Schecter WP, Stotter
A. The management of anorectal disease in HIV-positive patients: A Symposium. Int J Colorect
Dis 1990;5:61-72
10. Schecter WP. HIV infection: Risk to the surgeon. Resident and Staff Physician, 1990;36:23-7.
11. Schecter WP. HIV and Surgery: Occupational risk and responsibility. San Francisco Medicine,
1990;63:14-16.
12. Schecter WP. Occupationally acquired HIV infection and Workers' Compensation. American
College of Surgeons Bulletin 1990; 75:16-18. 20.Gerberding JL, Schecter WP. Risk of exposure
of surgical personnel to patients' blood (Letter). N Engl J Med 991;324:58-9.
13. Schecter WP. Surgery in HIV-infected patients. In San Francisco General Hospital AIDS
Knowledge Base (Computer Data Base). Cohen PT, Sande MA, Volberding P (eds.). Waltham,
Mass: Massachusetts Medical Society, 1991.
14. Gerberding JL, Schecter WP. Surgery and AIDS--Reducing the risk (editorial). JAMA
1991;265:1572-3.
15. Schecter WP. The impact of human immunodeficiency virus on surgery and procedures. Current
Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 1991;4:514-519.
16. Schecter WP. Occupationally-acquired HIV infection and Workers' Compensation. Resident and
Staff Physician. 1991;37:51-55.
17. Schecter WP. Discussion of Waxman K, Sundine MJ, Young RF. Is early prediction of outcome
in severe head injury possible? Arch Surg 1991;126:1242.
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18. Schecter WP. Discussion of Roessler MS, Wisner DH, Holcroft JW. The mangled extremity:
When to amputate? Arch Surg 1991;126:1248.
19. Schecter WP. Invited Commentary on Brooks SW, Young JC, Cmolik B, Schina M, Dianzumba
S, Townsend RN, Diamond DL. The use of transesophageal echocardiography in the evaluation
of chest trauma. J Trauma 1992;32:765-766.
20. Macho JR, Schecter WP. Surgery and the HIV Epidemic: The spectrum of practice.
Perspectives in General Surgery 1992;3:9-23.
21. Macho JR, Schecter WP. Surgical care of HIV infected patients. Infectious Disease Clinics of
North America, 1992;6:745-761.
22. Schecter WP. Safer surgery. AIDS File 1992;6:1-2.
23. Schecter WP. Social implications of hand surgery practice at San Francisco General Hospital.
Correspondence Newsletter, American Society for Surgery of the Hand, December 22, 1993.
24. Schecter WP: Expert commentary on article: Beck DE, Opelka FG: Pelvic and Perineal Trauma.
Perspectives in Colon and Rectal Surgery 1993;6:154-155
25. Schecter WP. Withdrawing and withholding life support in geriatric surgical patients: Ethical
considerations. Surg Clin North Am 1994;74:245-259.
26. Schecter WP, Gerberding JL. Human immunodefiency virus and the surgeon: 1993 Update.
Problems in Urology-Genitourinary Trauma, 1994;8:237-244.
27. Schecter WP. Viral hazards for surgeons/health care workers. International Cancer Management
Course Syllabus, Commission on Cancer, American College of Surgeons.
28. Schecter WP, Grey DP, Hofmann P. The Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition: Creating a
Program for the Uninsured. San Francisco Medicine 1994;67:23-24.
29. Schecter WP. Invited Commentary on Contino JP, Follette DM, Berkoff HA, Pollock ME, Bogren
H, Wisner DH. Use of a Carmeda-coded femoral-femoral bypass during repair of traumatic aortic
pseudoaneurysms. Arch Surg 1994;129:933-939.
30. Schecter WP. Anus and rectum. In: Macho J and Cable G. Everyone's Guide to Outpatient
Surgery. Andrews and McMeel, Kansas City, 1994, pp. 85-92.
31. Schecter WP (moderator). Ethical dilemmas. Emergency Medicine-Audio Digest 1994;24:Side B.
32. Braveman P, Egerter S, Schecter W. Reply to "Letters to the Editor" on Insurance and the Risk of
Ruptured Appendix. NEJM 1995;332:397-8.
33. Schecter, WP, Tellez M. Violence in America: A View from the UC Trauma Service at San
Francisco General Hospital. 1995;68:12-14.
34. Gerberding JL, Lewis FR, Schecter WP. Are universal precautions realistic? Surg Clin North Am
1995;75:1091-1104.
35. Schecter WP. Invited Discussion of Wisner DH, Lo B. The feasibility of organ salvage from non-
heartbeating trauma donors. Arch Surg 1996;131:32-33.
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36. Read T, Simmons M, Halvorsen R, Schecter WP. Obstructing carcinoid tumor of the
rectum: Case report and literature review. Contemporary Surgery 1997;50:177-180.
37. Schecter WP. Surgical manifestations of AIDS. Surgical Infections: Index and Reviews,
1997;V:1-5.
38. Harris HW, Schecter WP. Surgical risk assessment and management in patients with HIV
disease. Gastroenterol Clin North Am 1997;26:377-91.
39. Mueller FP, Schecter WP, Jablonowski H, Schmidt WU, Verreet PR. Perioperative therapy of HIV
infections. Langenbecks Arch Chir Suppl Kongressbd. 1998;115:1107-10. German.
40. Schecter WP. Commentary on Abstract. Morken JJ, Balcos EG, Hill MJ, Ney AJ, West MA, Van
Camp JM, Zera RT, Jacobs DM, Odland MD, Rodriguez JL. RISS scores can guide management
of civilian rectal injuries. Civilian rectal trauma: a changing perspective. Surgery 126:693-700,
1999. Colon and Rectal Surgery. Outlook. 2000;13(3);9-12.
41. Schecter WP, Swisher JL. Local Anesthesia in Surgical Practice. Current Problems in Surgery,
2000;37:1-68.
42. Schecter WP. Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Malignancy: Thoughts on Viral Oncogenesis.
Arch Surg 2001; (136)1419-1426.
43. Schecter WP, Bongard FS, Gainor BJ, Weltz DL, Horn JK. Pain Control in Outpatient Surgery. J
Am Coll Surg 2002;195:95-104.
44. Schecter W. San Francisco General Hospital. Arch Surg 2003;138:823-824.
45. Debas HT, Freischlag JA, Schecter WP, Warshaw AL. Pacific Coast Surgical Association Panel
on surgical practice. Arch Surg 2003;138:977-86.
46. Albo R, Schecter WP. Foramen of Winslow hernia masquerading as malignant bowel
obstruction. Contemporary Surgery 2004.
47. Schecter WP. Cholinergic symptoms due to nerve agent attack: A strategy for management.
Anesthesiology Clin N Am 2004:22:579-590.
48. Cohen MJ, Schecter WP. Perioperative pain control: A strategy for management. Surg Clin
North Am 85(2005)1243-1257.
49. Schecter WP, Farmer DL. Surgery and global health: A mandate for training, research, and
service. Bulletin Amer Coll Surgeons 91(5):36-38, 2006.
50. Schecter WP, Stock P. Surgery in Patients with HIV. HIV InSite Knowledge Base Chapter. 2003.
Available at http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=kb-03-03-02#S2.9X. Last accessed 1-4-06.
51. Schecter WP. Invited Critique. Surgery in Mongolia. Special Article. Gunsentsoodol B, Nachin
B, Dashzeveg T. Arch Surg 2006;141:1254-1257.
52. Chang TT, Schecter WP. The open abdomen – a new iatrogenic illness in the intensive care unit.
Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Review 2006; 35-37.
53. Staudenmayer K, Schecter WP. Civilian hospital response to mass casualty events: Basic
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principles. 2007; Bulletin of the ACS, Vol. 92, No. 7, pp. 22-26.
54. Schecter WP. Discussion. Yaghoubian A, de Virgilio C, Dauphine C, Lewis RJ, Lin M. Use of
admission serum lactate and sodium levels to predict mortality in necrotizing soft-tissue infections.
Arch Surg/Vol. 142(9), Sep 2007, p. 844.
55. Schecter WP, Wilder L. Preparing for the inevitable. Disaster! A comprehensive guide for
doctors. San Francisco Medicine, 2007 Oct; p. 21.
56. Einav-Bromiker S, Schecter WP. Surgical Response to Mass Casualty Incidents: The Israeli
Experience. Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management, Issue 14, 2007.
RESEARCH PROGRAM (SEPARATE SUMMARY)
I am a full-time Clinical Surgeon and have no basic science research program. However, in my capacity
as Chief of Surgery at the San Francisco General Hospital, I was intimately involved in the agreement to
fund the UCSF Surgical Research Laboratory at the San Francisco General Hospital, the design of this
laboratory, and the recruitment of Prof. William Welch, as the Elsbach-Richards Professor of Surgical
Research to lead scientific efforts in that laboratory.
My clinical research efforts are in four general areas:
1. The investigation of clinical surgical problems related to injury and infection
2. The investigation of clinical surgical problems related to HIV infection
3. The investigation of the prevalence of exposure to blood-borne infections during surgery and the best
methods to reduce the risk of exposure
4. Ethical issues in surgical practice relating to the treatment of HIV-infected patients and end of life
decisions, particularly related to intensive care
I have also been intimately involved in a project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled,
―Operation Access.‖ Operation Access is a 501C-3 Non-Profit Corporation that serves as a coalition of
physicians, nurses and hospitals which provides uncompensated, low-risk outpatient surgery to uninsured
patients. This program began as a pilot project at the Kaiser, San Francisco Hospital which led to a
publication of our early experience in the Archives of Surgery in 1995. Since that time, UCSF/Mt. Zion
Hospital and San Francisco General Hospital joined the coalition in San Francisco and we have expanded
our operations to Contra Costa, Alameda, San Mateo and Marin Counties. The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation grant ended and we are now a self-sustaining, independently funded organization. This
organization has been sponsored by the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, the
San Francisco Medical Society, the Alameda County Medical Society, and the Northern California Chapter
of the American College of Surgeons. Operation Access has been replicated in Delaware and Sacramento
and parts of our program have been used in San Diego. I plan to devote a significant portion of my
research time to this continuing project to increase access of uninsured patients to surgical care.
Top 5 Publications
1. Avidan V, Hersch M, Armon Y, Spira R, Aharoni D, Reissman P, Schecter WP. Blast lung injury:
clinical manifestations, treatment, and outcome. Am J Surg, Dec/2005;190(6):927-31.
2. Einav S, Spira RM, Hersch M, Reissman P, Schecter W. Surgeon and hospital leadership during
terrorist-related multiple-casualty events: a coup d'état. Arch Surg, Aug/2006;141(8):815-22.
3. Schecter WP, Ivatury RR, Rotondo MF, Hirshberg A. Open abdomen after trauma and abdominal
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sepsis: a strategy for management. J Am Coll Surg, Sep/2006;203(3):390-6.
4. Avidan V, Hersch M, Spira RM, Einav S, Goldberg S, Schecter W. Civilian hospital response to a
mass casualty event: the role of the intensive care unit. J Trauma, May/2007;62(5):1234-9.
5. Schecter WP. A Passion for Medicine: A commencement address to the Class of 2007. J Surg
Education;March/April 2008 issue volume 65(2):166-73.
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