Timothy M. Pawlik

TIMOTHY M. PAWLIK, SPH ’12 (PhD), the John L. Cameron, M.D., Professor of Alimentary Tract Diseases, received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Pawlik completed surgical training at the University of Michigan Hospital and spent two years at the Massachusetts General Hospital as a surgical oncology research fellow. He then went on for advanced training in surgical oncology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Dr. Pawlik’s main clinical interests include alimentary tract surgery, with a special interest in hepatic and pancreatobiliary diseases. He also has an interest in medical ethics and completed a fellowship in medical ethics at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as a Masters in Theology from Harvard Divinity School in Boston. In addition, Dr. Pawlik has received a PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Clinical Investigations.

Dr. Pawlik took his first faculty appointment at Johns Hopkins in 2005, where he is currently professor of Surgery and Oncology, as well as the director of the Johns Hopkins Liver Tumor Clinic. Dr. Pawlik has given more than 200 invited talks both nationally and internationally and has published more than 250 articles and 30 book chapters. He is a member of a number of professional societies including the Society of Surgical Oncology, the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, the Association for Academic Surgery, the Society of Clinical Surgery, and the American Surgical Association.