Professor of Surgery. Chief Division of Colorectal Surgery and System Chief of Colorectal Surgery
Temple Health System
Lewis Katz Medical School Temple University
Philadlephia, PA, United States
Dr. Juan Lucas Poggio is a Board-certified in Colon and Rectal Surgery as well as General Surgery. He joined Temple in 2020 as Professor of Surgery. Prior to joining Temple, he held hospital and academic appointments – including Vice Chair of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Colorectal Surgery – at Drexel University.
He earned his Medical Degree from Universidad Del Salvador Medical School in Argentina before completing a Masters in Tumor Biology and General Surgery Internship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN; surgical residency at Mercy Health System in PA; a CRS Fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI; and a Fellowship in CRS Oncologic Surgery at Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY.
He was appointed System Chief of Colorectal Surgery for Temple University Health System and Chief of the Division of Colorectal Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in 2022.
His clinical interests include benign and malignant colorectal surgery conditions; HRA (high resolution anoscopy); anal dysplasia and anal cancer; colon and rectal cancer and robotic surgery. His research interests include anal dysplasia, HRA, surgical outcomes, anal cancer, colorectal cancer and medical education. He is a member of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery, American College of Surgeons, Association for Academic Surgery, International Anal Neoplasia Society and Pennsylvania Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (Vice President-elect). He has received intramural and extramural funding and has translated his research toward community service and education.
Dr. Poggio has authored or co-authored many articles in high impact publications as well as abstracts, book chapters and presentations at regional, national and international society meetings. He has received numerous honors throughout his career, including being named a Philadelphia magazine “Top Doctor” for Colon & Rectal Surgery.
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