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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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ACS Fellow Since 1998

James Ralph Korndorffer Jr., MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Assn for Acad Surg
  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs
  • Assoc of Prog Dir in Surg
  • Assn for Surg Ed
  • Southern Surg Assn

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

General Surgery

300 Pasteur Dr

H3591

Stanford

Palo Alto, CA 94305

United States

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • abdominal pain
  • adhesion removal
  • anti-reflux procedures
  • appendectomy
  • feeding tubes
  • fundoplication
  • fundoplication - laparoscopic
  • gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • peptic ulcer disease
  • splenectomy

Hernia Procedures

  • abdominal hernia
  • component separation
  • epigastric hernia
  • femoral hernia
  • inguinal hernia
  • laparoscopic hernia repair
  • paraesophageal hernia
  • umbilical hernia
  • ventral hernia

Minimal Access Surgery

Hospital Appointments

Fayette County Hospital

Fayette, AL,

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

08/1995—09/1997

Baptist East

Montgomery, AL,

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

10/1997—06/2003

Tulane University Hospital and Clinic

New Orleans,

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

07/2003—06/2017

Southeast Louisiana VA

New Orleans,

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

07/2012—12/2017

Stanford Healthcare

Stanford, CA

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

12/2017—Present

Palo Alto VA

Palo Alto, CA

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

12/2017—Present

Academic Appointments

Director, Tulane Center for Advanced Simulation

Other

Tulane University School of Medicine

New Orleans, LA

Professor

12/2006—06/2017

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford, CA

Associate Professor

12/2017—Present