Mark Katlic, MD, headlines this year’s Denham Harman, MD, PhD, Lectureship in Biomedical Gerontology. The annual lecture will be held during the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, April 18, at noon in the Durham Research Center I auditorium.
UNMC Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Medicine Chief Alfred Fisher, MD, PhD, said Dr. Katlic is a nationally recognized authority in geriatric surgery.
Denham Harman, MD, PhD, Lectureship in Biomedical Gerontology
- Presentation title: The Aging Surgeon | Mark Katlic, MD
- Friday, April 18 at noon
- Durham Research Center I Auditorium
“Dr. Katlic has been involved in geriatrics throughout his surgical career. He was one of the inaugural editors of the textbook ‘Geriatric Surgery,’” Dr. Fisher said. “More recently, he developed a program to evaluate the skills of older surgeons to balance the competing demands of allowing older surgeons to continue in practice while providing confidence with regards to safe patient care.”
Dr. Katlic serves as chair emeritus of the department of surgery at LifeBridge Health System in Baltimore. In 2014, Dr. Katlic established The Aging Surgeon Program, a comprehensive, objective evaluation of a surgeon’s cognitive and physical faculties, at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, a program that he still directs.
Dr. Katlic has had a special interest in caring for the elderly for 40 years. His paper “Surgery in Centenarians” was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1985, and he went on to publish seven textbooks and to lecture frequently on this subject.
As a thoracic surgeon Dr. Katlic has pioneered video-assisted thoracic surgery under local anesthesia and sedation, with results of 576 cases published in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.