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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 2004

Alessandro Fichera, MD, FACS, FASCRS, FISS, FCCF

Board Certification

  • American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Am Soc of Col& Rec Surg
  • Soc for Surg Alim Tract
  • Assn for Acad Surg
  • Soc of Surg Oncol
  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs
  • Soc of Univ Surg
  • Amer Surg Assn

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

Colon-Rectal Surgery

525 East 68th St

Room K802A

New York, NY 10065

United States

Contact Information

Administrative Assistant
Name:Elizabeth Andrade

Biography

Dr. Fichera earned his M.D. from the Catholic University of Rome, completed General Surgery Residency at the University of Chicago and two year fellowship in laparoscopic and colorectal surgery at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He returned to the University of Chicago where he started and became the first Program Director of the Colon and Rectal Surgery Training Program. He moved to the University of Washington in July 2012 as chief of colorectal surgery and was appointed chief of the section of Gastrointestinal Surgery in 2014 and in 2016 clinical director of Gastrointestinal Oncology at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. In November 2017 he moved to University of North Carolina as the Division Chief of Gastrointestinal Surgery. In September 2019 he became the Division Chief of Colorectal Surgery at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas and the Surgery Safety and Quality Officer since July 2020. His clinical and research interest include colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Colon and Rectal Disorder/Procedures

  • laparoscopic colon surgery

Colon and Rectal Cancer/Tumors

  • Colon and Rectal Cancer/Tumors

Hospital Appointments

University of Washington Medical Center

Seattle,

Attending

07/2012—10/2017

University fo North Carolina Medical Center

Chapel Hill, NC

Chief

11/2017—08/2019

Baylor University Medical Center

Dallas, TX

Chief

09/2019—Present

Academic Appointments

University of Washington School of Medicine

Seattle, WA

Professor

07/2012—10/2017

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Chapel Hill, NC

Professor

11/2017—08/2019

Baylor University Medical Center

Professor

09/2019—Present