Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health tapped Steven Wexner, MD, a pioneer in colorectal surgery, as physician executive director and system chief of colorectal surgery.
Dr. Wexner specializes in surgery for rectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, rectourethral and rectovaginal fistulas and reoperative pelvic surgery, according to a Nov. 4 system news release. He brings more than 28 years of clinical and research experience to the system and is currently based at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
Previously, he served as director of the Ellen Leifer Shulman and Steven Shulman Digestive Disease Center and chair of the department of colorectal surgery at Cleveland Clinic Florida.
