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WALTER EMERSON POFAHL, II, M.D.
Department of Surgery
Brody School of Medicine
East Carolina University
600 Moye Boulevard
Greenville, NC 27858
(252) 744-4751 (clinical)
(252) 744-4748 (administrative)
Email: pofahlw@mail.ecu.edu
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Current Professional and Academic
Appointment:
2000 – present Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Brody
School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North
Carolina
Licensure:
Alabama, North
Carolina
Certification:
Diplomate, American
Board of Surgery, 1995
Education:
1980 - 1984 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
(B.A., Molecular Biology)
1984 - 1988 West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (M.D.)
Postgraduate Training:
1988 - 1989 Intern, Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY
1989 - 1994 Resident, Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY
1991 - 1992 Research Fellow, Department of Surgery, University of
Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Professional Society Memberships:
American Association of Endocrine Surgeons
American College of Gastroenterology
American College of Surgeons, Fellow
American Geriatrics Society, Section for Surgical and Related
Medical Specialties
Association for Surgical Education
Pancreas Club
Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
Southeastern Surgical Congress
Academic Appointments:
1994 - 2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, College of
Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama
1995 -2000 Associate Scientist, University of South Alabama
Hospitals Cancer Center
Administrative Responsibilities
University of
South Alabama
1995 - 2000 Director, Surgical Endoscopy
1996 2000 Director, Medical Student Education
East Carolina University
2002-2003 Interim Chief, Division of General Surgery, Department of
Surgery, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Pitt
County Memorial Hospital
2003-Present Chief, Division of General Surgery, Department of
Surgery, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Pitt
County Memorial Hospital
University Committees
University of South Alabama
2000 Ad Hoc Longitudinal Medical School Planning Committee
2000 Internal Review Gastroenterology Residency, Ad Hoc Committee
1999 - 2000 Continuing Medical Education Committee
1998 2000 Clinical Focus Group, Southwest Alabama Rural Telehealth
Network
1997 2000 Curriculum Committee; Co-Chair, Early Clinical
Experience Subcommittee
1997 2000 Student Promotion and Evaluation Committee
1995 - 1998 Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
East Carolina
University
2001-present Compliance Committee
2002-present Telemedicine Advisory Board
2002-present CME Advisory Committee
2003-present Medical Faculty Practice Plan Compensation Committee
2003-present Clinical Directors Committee
2004-present Faculty Senate
Hospital Committees
University of South Alabama
1995 - 1999 PrimeHealth Utilization Management Committee
1995 - 2000 Surgical Case Review Committee
1998 1999 Special Care Committee
1999 2000 Surgery Committee
1999 - 2000 Quality Assurance Committee
Pitt County Memorial Hospital
2001 Information Flow and Availability Subcommittee
2001-present Computerized Physician Order Entry Steering Committee
2003-2004 Patient Care Access Committee
2003present Graduate Medical Education Policy Committee
2004-present Utilization Management Committee
2004-present Operating Room Committee
Departmental Committees
University of South Alabama
1994 - 2000 Surgery Grand Rounds Committee
1994 - 2000 Resident Education Committee
1994 - 2000 Research Committee
East Carolina University
2000 - present Surgical Education Committee
2004 present Personnel Committee
National Committees
1996 - present Committee for Evaluation and Testing, Association for
Surgical Education
Co-chair, Steering Committee for developing assessment item bank
(2002)
1998 present Committee for Curriculum, Association for Surgical
Education
2000 - 2002 Awards Committee, Association for Surgical Education
(chair, 2001-2002)
2001 2002 Executive Committee, Association for Surgical Education
2002 2003 Program Committee, Association of Program Directors in
Surgery
2002 present Program Committee, American Geriatrics Society,
Section for Surgical and Related Medical Specialties
2003 present Surgical Curriculum Committee, American Board of
Surgery
Other
University of South Alabama
1997 1999 Clinical Science Advisor to the Student Assembly
1998 2000 Faculty Advisor, Surgery Interest Group
East Carolina University
2002 Co-director physician assistant student surgery lecture series
2002 - present Physician Reviewer, Colon Cancer Patient Care
Evaluations, Pitt County Memorial Hospital Tumor Registry
Awards and
Honors
Eagle Scout, Troop 20, Huntington, WV, 1980
Van Liere Award Competition, West Virginia University, Recipient
third place award, 1985
American College of Surgeons State Committee on Trauma Resident
Paper Competition, Recipient third place award, September 1991
Frederick A. Coller Surgical Society Clinical Tour, 1993
Medical Excellence Scholarship Award, Southern Medical Association,
1997
Red Sash Award, 1998, 1999, 2000
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 2002
Publications
Papers:
1.
RW Schwartz, WA Arden, WE Pofahl, M Derbin,
R Oremus, RN Greenberg, DR Gross. Effect of anti-lipid A monoclonal
antibody (E5) on microcirculatory function during lipopolysaccharide
shock. Journal of Surgical Research, 54:474, 1993.
2. Toursarkissian,
TN Zweng, PA Kearney, WE Pofahl, SB Johnson, DE Barker. Percutaneous
dilatational tracheostomy: Report of 141 cases.
Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 57:862-7, 1994
3.
WE Pofahl, WA Arden, WF Marterre, DW
Smith, M Derbin, R Oremus, DR Gross, WE Strodel. Intestinal
microcirculatory effects of octreotide. Journal of Surgical
Research, 56:345, 1994
4. WE Pofahl, SM Walczak,
E Rhone, SD Izenberg. Use of an artificial neural
network to predict length of stay in acute pancreatitis. American
Surgeon 64:868-872, 1998.
5.
WE Pofahl, F Ringold. Management of early
dislodgment of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes.
Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy, & Percutaneous Techniques
9:253-256, 1999.
6
WE Pofahl, SM Walczak. Predicting length
of stay in acute pancreatitis. Surgical Forum
50:657-659, 1999.
7. RW Schwartz, WE Pofahl, MJ Mastrangelo,
Jr. Introduction: current reviews in gastrointestinal, minimally
invasive, & endocrine surgery. Current Surgery 57(4):312,
2000.
8. WE Pofahl. Surgical judgment and decision
making. Focus on Surgical Education 17:33-34, 2000.
9.
TD
Balint, BM Bailey, KG Mendelson, WE Pofahl. Hepatic abscess:
current concepts in diagnosis and treatment. Current Surgery
58(4):381-384, 2001.
10.
S
Robbins, WE Pofahl, RP Gonzalez. Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair
reduces wound complications. American Surgeon 67(9):896-900,
2001.
11.
KG
Mendelson, BM Bailey, TD Balint, WE Pofahl. Meckels diverticulum:
review and surgical management. Current Surgery
58(5):455-457, 2001.
12.
WE
Pofahl, JA DiPalma. Acalculous cholecystopathy. eMedicine
Journal 3(1), 2002.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic347.htm.
13.
W.E. Pofahl, W.J. Pories, Is it possible to stay up-to-date after
the residency? Current Surgery 59(1):112-114, 2002.
14.
WE
Pofahl, MS Swanson, SS Cox, DM DaRe, CE Haisch, WJ Pories, WR
Chitwood. Performance standards improve American Board of Surgery
In-Training Examination Scores. Current Surgery
59(2):220-222, 2002.
15.
WE Pofahl. Review of Sabiston Textbook of
Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice, 16th
ed, Townsend, Beauchamp, Evers, Mattox (eds.), Philadelphia, PA: W.B.
Saunders, 2001; Current Surgery 59(4):401, 2002.
16. JH Garofalo, WE Pofahl. Achalasia: a brief review of treatment
options and efficacy. Current Surgery 59(6):549-553, 2002.
17. S Walczak, WE Pofahl, RJ Scorpio. A decision support tool for
allocating hospital bed resources and determining required acuity of
care. Decision Support Systems 34(4):445-456, 2003.
18. WE Pofahl, WJ Pories. Current status and future directions of
geriatric general surgery. Journal of the American Geriatrics
Society 51(7S):S351-354, 2003.
19. J Johnson, JS Roth, J Hazey, WE Pofahl. The history of open
inguinal hernia repair. Current Surgery 61(1):49-52, 2004.
20. JS Roth, J Johnson, J Hazey, WE Pofahl. Current laparoscopic
inguinal hernia repair. Current Surgery 61(1):53-56, 2004.
21. WE Pofahl, JS Kelly, TD Smith. The Internet and laparoscopy:
does cybersurgery have a future? Current Surgery (in press).
22. WE Pofahl. Review of Geriatrics Syllabus for Specialists, Katz,
Grossberg, Potter, Solomon, (eds.), New York, NY: American
Geriatrics Society, 2002; Annals of Surgery (accepted for
publication).
23. AM Jarchow, DA Blanks, WE Pofahl. Management of
hyperparathyroidism in elderly patients. Current Surgery Accepted
for publication).
Abstracts:
1. WE Pofahl, RJ Neff. Stimulation of in-vitro
macrophage-mediated cytotoxicity. West Virginia Medical Journal,
81:263,1985.
2. WE Pofahl, DW Smith, WF Marterre, RW Landrum, WE Strodel.
High-energy phosphate recovery following graded warm hepatic
ischemia. Gastroenterology, 102:A869, 1992.
3. JN Benoit, H Gao, WJ Thompson and W Pofahl. Reduced
vasoconstrictor function in resistance arteries from portal
hypertensive rats; evidence for impaired calcium mobilization and
increased cAMP dependent protein kinase activity. Gastroenterology,
110:A312, 1996.
4. WE Pofahl, BA Marble, AA Rizzo, PA Logsdon, JR Fletcher.
Adenosine maintains tissue perfusion in endotoxemia. FASEB Journal
10:A577, 1996.
5. WE Pofahl and SD Izenberg. The use of neural networks to predict
complications in acute pancreatitis. Gastroenterology, 112:A473,
1997.
6. WE Pofahl, TB Pickron, JN Benoit. Intestinal vascular responses
to octreotide in portal hypertension are restricted to proximal
microvessels. Gastroenterology, 112:A395, 1997.
7. OL Middleton, H Gao, Z Jiao, W Pofahl, and JN Benoit. Modulation
of vascular norepinephrine responses by KATP channels in normal and
portal hypertensive rats. Gastroenterology, 112:A385, 1997.
8. WE Pofahl, SM Walczak, E Rhone. Predicting length of stay in
acute pancreatitis with a neural network. Gastroenterology 114:A491,
1998.
9. WE Pofahl, J Richerson. Vascular reactivity in acute pancreatitis.
Gastroenterology 116:A1156, 1999.
Book Chapters:
1. KW Sharp, WE Pofahl. Pancreas. In: PF Lawrence, ed. Essentials of
General Surgery, third edition. Baltimore: William and Wilkins,
2000:327-342
2. WE Pofahl, DA Sloan. Implementation of the Objective Structured
Clinical. In: JA McCoy, HW Merrick eds. The Objective Structured
Clinical Examination. Springfield: Association for Surgical
Education Clearinghouse 2001:24-33.
3. Contributor to: DM Jacobs, D Poenaru, eds. Surgical Educators
Handbook. Springfield: Association for Surgical Education
Clearinghouse 2002.
Editorial Service
2000 - present Current Surgery, Editorial Board
2001 present Content expert, General Surgery; Research Agenda
Setting Process, American Geriatrics Society/Hartford Project:
Increasing Geriatrics Expertise in Surgical and Medical Specialties
2002 - present Association for Surgical Education Editorial Board
2003 Surgical Resident Curriculum, 4th ed. SS Cox, WE Pofahl, WJ
Pories, eds. Arlington, VA: Association of Program Directors in
Surgery, 2002.
2002 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, reviewer
2003 Environmental Geochemistry and Health, reviewer
2003 Item writer, American Board of Surgery Qualifying Examination
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