Dr. Hoyt currently serves as the chairman, department of surgery; executive vice-dean, School of Medicine; and John E. Connolly professor of surgery at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center.
Dr. Hoyt will succeed Thomas R. Russell, MD, FACS, who has served as the executive director of ACS for 10 years.
An ACS fellow since 1987, Dr. Hoyt has been an active leader in a number of ACS activities. He has been involved with the work of the ACS Committee on Trauma 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 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.
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, San Diego. He was also on the staff at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in San Diego and at Thornton Hospital in La Jolla, Calif.
Dr. Hoyt received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1976, and completed his internship, residency and fellowship at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.
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