SHERRY WREN is a professor of surgery and associate dean of academic affairs at Stanford, and the chief of general surgery at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. Her clinical focus is on the surgical treatment of gastrointestinal cancers and robotic surgery. In 2006, Wren began humanitarian surgery work with Doctors Without Borders. She has worked in conflict zones in Africa and used this experience to create teaching programs that prepare surgeons from high-resource settings to work in low-resource environments.
She answers questions as part of Stanford’s Open Office Hours on Facebook. Wren also recently participated in TEDxStanford.
