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Surgical Oncologist Eugene P. Kennedy, M.D., has joined the Department of Surgery of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia.  He has also been named assistant professor of surgery, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.

Prior to joining Jefferson, Dr. Kennedy served as assistant professor of surgery at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans.  Earlier, he served as assistant chief of service and instructor in surgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institution in Baltimore.

A board certified surgeon who specializes in gastrointestinal disorders, Dr. Kennedy is an associate member of the American College of Surgeons and a candidate member of the Society of Surgical Oncologists.  He has written abstracts, book chapters and peer reviewed articles on colorectal cancer and immune tolerance. 

He completed a surgical oncology fellowship, a surgical research fellowship and a general surgery residency, all at Johns Hopkins, where he received a National Institutes of Health gastrointestinal training grant.  He also served as a surgical registrar at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, Ireland.

Dr. Kennedy received a doctor of medicine degree from the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University in 1996.  He received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1990.