David I Soybel, MD
Title(s)
Professor of Surgery
Additional Titles/Positions/Affiliations
Chief, Surgery Service
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
White River Junction, VT
Department(s)
Surgery
Education
University of Chicago AB 1978
University of Chicago MD 1982
Washington University School of Medicine & Barnes Hospital, St. Louis. Residency in General Surgery and Research Fellowship in Surgery and Physiology (1982-1990)
Curriculum Vitae
Soybel_D_CV_2022-08-02.pdf
NIH Biosketch
Soybel_D_BIO_2022-08-02.pdf
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Contact Information
Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
215 Main St, Surgery-112
White River Junction VT 05009
Office:
Phone: 802-295-9363 ext. 5290
Email: David.I.Soybel@Dartmouth.edu
Assistant: Kellsie Wyman
Asst. Phone: 802-295-9363 ext. 6193
Professional Interests
Surgery of benign gastrointestinal conditions and hernia.
Mentoring Information
Throughout my career, I have aligned my academic interests and goals with opportunities to provide mentorship to undergraduates and medical students, surgical residents and young faculty (PhD and MD). In this regard, I have served as principal mentor to a number of medical students who obtained Howard Hughes Fellowships for a research year, all of whom are now faculty in leading institutions such as Stanfod, U-Wisconsin Madison and UCSF. In addition, I have served as principal or co-mentor in research to a number of residents in surgery, helping them to obtain independent funding support from NIH (F32) and surgical society fellowships. Former resident research fellows and mentees include individuals with professorial appointments and in some instances major leadership positions at institutions such as Washington University, the Mayo Clinic-Rochester, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Most recently, at the Penn State College of Medicine, I provided mentorship or co-mentorship for numerous medical students, residents, and young to mid-level faculty, a number of whom have attracted institutional, foundation or NIH support for their work. Currently I am working with a group of undergraduates exploring how poetry and art may inform the way a surgeon understands the patient with a surgical illness.
Biography
I joined the staff at the White river Junction VA in March 2020. Most recently (2011-2020) I held the David L. Nahrwold Professorship in Surgery at Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and the appointment of Chief of General Surgery Specialties & Surgical Oncology at the Penn State- Hershey Medical Center in Hershey PA. Previously (1993-2011) I held appointments as Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Senior Staff Surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA. Previously, I held grants from the Medical Research Service of the Veterans Administration, the National Institutes of Health (NIDDK, NIGMS), and different foundation awards. In 2005, I was recognized as a Teacher of the Year by the Association for Surgical Education and over the years received number of institutional awards for excellence in teaching. Most recently my academic interests have included the integration of biological pathways with clinical predictors of outcomes of surgical illness and major abdominal procedures.
A Retrospective Analysis of Surgical Acuity & Procedure Volume Before & During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Increased Preoperative Stress Test Utilization is Not Associated With Reduced Adverse Cardiac Events in Current US Surgical Practice. Loss-of-function SLC30A2 mutants are associated with gut dysbiosis and alterations in intestinal gene expression in preterm infants. Engaging the Poetic Perspective on Care of the Surgical Patient: Lessons from W.H. Auden's "Surgical Ward". Clinical Empathy for the Surgical Patient: Lessons From W.H. Auden's Prose and Poetry. Image-based assessment of sarcopenic obesity predicts mortality in major trauma. Nudging patients and surgeons to change ambulatory surgery pain management: Results from an opioid buyback program. Incidence, risk factors, and outcomes of early postoperative hyperglycemia in surgical patients: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. Macrolets: Outsized Extracellular Vesicles Released from Lipopolysaccharide-Stimulated Macrophages that Trap and Kill Escherichia coli. A common genetic variant in zinc transporter ZnT2 (Thr288Ser) is present in women with low milk volume and alters lysosome function and cell energetics. |