Francis Charles Brunicardi, M.D., F.A.C.S.
MCO Alumni Endowed Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery
Cancer Program Director
University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
Academic Chief of Surgery for ProMedica Health System
Dr. Brunicardi received his medical degree from Rutgers University School of Medicine and trained in general surgery at SUNY-Brooklyn Health and Science Center. He was an assistant/ associate Professor of Surgery at UCLA from 1989-1995. In 1995 Dr. Brunicardi was recruited to the Baylor College of Medicine and was appointed as the DeBakey Professor and Chairman of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery in 1998. In 2011, Dr. Brunicardi rejoined the UCLA faculty as Moss Foundation Chair in Gastrointestinal and Personalized surgery and Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
In 2016, Dr. Brunicardi was recruited to the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences as MCO Alumni Endowed Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, and Academic Chief of Surgery for the ProMedica Health System. He is also the Cancer Program Director.
His clinical expertise includes gastrointestinal minimally invasive and robotic surgery. His research focuses on translational precision surgery for pancreatic cancer and developed several novel targeted cancer therapies using an actionable genomics platform. Dr. Brunicardi has published 284 papers and has served as the lead editor of the Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery since 2000.
