F. Charles Brunicardi

F. Charles Brunicardi, born on May 10, 1954 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, is an American physician and gastrointestinal surgeon-scientist. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1976 and from Rutgers Medical School in 1980, then trained in surgery in California and at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, where he was chief resident of general surgery in 1988 and 1989. He joined the University of California, Los Angeles surgical faculty in 1989, moved to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in 1995 as chief of general surgery, and in 1999 became DeBakey/Bard Professor and chairman of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, a post he held for twelve years. He returned to UCLA in 2011 and in December 2019 became senior vice president and dean of the College of Medicine at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. His research centers on translational genomic medicine and surgery, including neuroendocrine tumors, with more than 270 publications and a surgical textbook he edits.