Behind the knife, the Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at surgery

from leaders in the surgery. Welcome to another episode of Behind the Knife, The Surgery Podcast. Today we are going to

launch our series with Annals of Surgery as part of our Journal Club segment. In this series, we are going to discuss

a prime paper that is accepted to

annals of surgery with the author of the paper itself.

To kick off our series, we have a paper in the arena of pancreatic cancer.

We have the pleasure of having Dr. Christopher Wolfgang here today.

Dr Wolfgang is the John L. Cameron Professor of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University, as well as the Professor of Pathology and Ecology.

He's the Chief of the division of surgical

oncology as well as the wise chair of surgery for surgical

oncology at the Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Dr Wolfgang is a hepatobiliary pancreatic surgeon with an emphasis on neoplasms of the pancreas.

He runs a basic translational science lab that focuses on the molecular genetics and tumor biology of pancreatic cancer.

Dr Wolfgang completed a combined MD and PhD degree from Temple University School of Medicine,

followed by his general surgery residency at Penn State

and a fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

He took his first faculty position at Johns Hopkins and since then has been there ever since.

So thank you Dr. Wolfgang for being with us here today.

Thank you for the opportunity.

And Dr. Wolfing is here to discuss with us his new paper in anles of surgery titled

Circulating Tumor Cells Dynamics in Pancreatic Adnarcarinoma correlate with disease status.

Results of the prospective cluster study of which he is the senior author. It was

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