Welcome to the website of the Department of Surgery at the University of Chicago. We hope it provides you with a useful introduction to our Department and captures, to some extent, the excitement of our enterprise.

* The Department consists of 11 specialties, with more than 90 full-time faculty, making it one of the most comprehensive surgical programs in the country.

* The Department comprises more than 500 highly qualified persons, who support our mission of excellence in clinical care, education and research.

* We perform approximately 18,000 surgical procedures and 75,000 outpatient visits per year.

* Our teams of basic scientists and physician scientists accounted for approximately $6 million in research funds this past year.

Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD, Chair of Surgery