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Dr. Charles J. Yeo was born in East Orange, New Jersey, and attended Spring Valley Senior High School in Spring Valley, New York. He graduated from Princeton University in 1975, summa cum laude with an A.B. degree in Biochemistry. Dr. Yeo graduated in 1979 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, being awarded the Upjohn Achievement Award and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa. While completing his internship and residency in General Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, he pursued a Research Fellowship at the S.U.N.Y. Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Dr. Yeo joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University as an Instructor and Assistant Chief of Service in the Department of Surgery in 1985, and rose to the rank of Professor of Surgery in 1996. In 1997, he became a Professor in the Department of Oncology. Dr. Yeo directed the Pancreatic Cancer Interdisciplinary Working Group at Johns Hopkins, and served as the Surgical Clerkship Coordinator and Surgical Curriculum Consultant. In 2001, Dr. Yeo received the Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 2002, Dr. Yeo was named to an endowed chair at Johns Hopkins, becoming The John L. Cameron M.D. Professor for Alimentary Tract Diseases. On October 1, 2005 Dr. Yeo was named the 8th Samuel D. Gross Professor and he assumed the chairmanship of the Department of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Yeo was the co-editor of the highly successful five-volume encyclopedic Shackelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 5th Edition published in 2002, and he served as the sole editor of the 6th edition, which was published in 2007. He is an Associate Editor of Advances in Surgery and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, and he serves on the editorial boards of two other journals—Langenbeck’s Archives of Surgery and Surgery. He has authored over 415 peer reviewed scientific papers, numerous abstracts, and over 90 book chapters. Dr. Yeo travels nationally and internationally, teaching and lecturing on the treatment of benign and malignant pancreatic diseases.

Dr. Yeo’s primary interests and research have been in the fields of hepatopancreaticobiliary surgery—the evaluation of patients with pancreatic cancer, the management of patients with unusual pancreatic neoplasms, as well as acute or chronic pancreatitis. He also maintains an interest in complex abdominal surgery of the stomach, liver, biliary tree and intestines. He has personally performed over 1100 Whipple procedures, and cared for over 2000 patients with pancreatic tumors. His initial NIH funding in the field of pancreatic cancer began in 1991, and he continues to lead a team which receives NIH funding in this area today.

Dr. Yeo’s major accomplishments have been in the fields of surgical education, clinical care of patients with complex alimentary tract diseases, and research. His authorship of manuscripts in journals, book chapters, and books have been major contributions to the surgical literature. His design and completion of numerous prospective randomized clinical trials have dramatically impacted the field of pancreatic surgery—particularly the most difficult of all pancreatic procedures, the pancreaticoduodenectomy. Additionally, his leadership of large teams of physicians and scientists (at both Johns Hopkins and Jefferson) dedicated to a better understanding of pancreatic neoplasia, has generated a plethora of new knowledge relevant to the early detection, screening, categorization, and therapy of pancreatic and related types of cancer. Recently, Dr. Yeo was instrumental in organizing the Jefferson Pancreas, Biliary and Related Cancer Center, the Jefferson Pancreas Tumor Registry and in the presentation of a Webcast about the mini-Whipple operation (www.jeffersonhospital.org/pancreas).

Dr. Yeo, his wife (Theresa P. Yeo, Ph.D.), children, and dog reside in the Philadelphia suburbs.