David B. Hoyt, MD, FACS, Named New Executive Director of American College of Surgeons
Newswise — The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has named a new Executive Director: David B. Hoyt, MD, FACS, chairman, department of surgery; executive vice-dean, school of medicine; and John E. Connolly professor of surgery, University of California, Irvine (UCI) Medical Center. The appointment of Dr. Hoyt, who is a former Medical Director of the College's Trauma Programs, was approved and announced by the College's Board of Regents at their October 15 meeting in Chicago.
Dr. Hoyt will succeed Thomas R. Russell, MD, FACS, on January 1, 2010. Dr. Russell will have completed his second term and a full decade of service as Executive Director of the American College of Surgeons at that time.
An ACS Fellow since 1987, Dr. Hoyt has been an active leader in a number of College activities. He has been involved with the work of the ACS Committee on Trauma (COT) since 1980 and was Chair of the COT from 1998-2002. He is a member of the national faculty for the College's Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course and is a coordinator, instructor, and director of training for ATLS.
Dr. Hoyt was awarded the College's highest honor, its Distinguished Service Award, in 2007. He was a member of the ACS Board of Governors' Committee on Blood-Borne Infection and Environmental Risk, the Program Committee, and the Regents' Committee on Informatics. He was also actively involved with the San Diego/Imperial County Credentials Committee for 12 years.
Prior to his position at UCI, Dr. Hoyt was The Monroe E. Trout Professor of Surgery and vice-chairman of the department of surgery at the University of California (UC), San Diego; he was also on the staff at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in San Diego and at Thornton Hospital in La Jolla, CA.
Dr. Hoyt obtained his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, in 1976. He was intern (1976-1977), resident (1977-1979), research fellow (1979-1980), and senior and chief resident (1982-1984) at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. He served as director of the division of trauma, burns, and critical care at the UC San Diego Medical center from 1989 to 2006. Dr. Hoyt also served as assistant professor of surgery (1984-1989), associate professor of surgery (1989-1995), and professor of surgery (1995-2006) at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
A nationally recognized trauma surgeon, Dr. Hoyt has been president of the Pan American Trauma Society, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Shock Society, and the San Diego Society of General Surgeons. He has served as Chairman of the Trauma Advisory Committee for the State of California’s Emergency Services Authority. Dr. Hoyt has received numerous recognition awards throughout his distinguished career, including the Trauma Service Award from the Society of Trauma Nurses and the Robert Danis Lifetime Research Award from the International Society of Surgery.
Dr. Hoyt’s research interests and past research experience have involved basic and clinical work in a variety of important areas related to trauma patients and trauma care systems, including cytokine regulation, the isolation of trauma active peptides, trauma registries, violence prevention, crash investigation, and long terms outcome research. He has been awarded several research grants from the National Institutes of Health as the principal or co-investigator for trauma-related research throughout his career and has been the author or co-author of more than 480 publications. In addition, Dr. Hoyt holds membership on the editorial boards of the World Journal of Emergency Surgery, Surgery, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Journal of Trauma, Shock,and Open Access Emergency Medicine.
The American College of Surgeons is a scientific and educational organization of surgeons that was founded in 1913 to raise the standards of surgical practice and to improve the care of the surgical patient. The College is dedicated to the ethical and competent practice of surgery. Its achievements have significantly influenced the course of scientific surgery in America and have established it as an important advocate for all surgical patients. The College has approximately 77,000 members and is the largest organization of surgeons in the world.
A photo of Dr. Hoyt is available upon request from the ACS Office of Public Information.
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