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UICOMP SURGERY FACULTY
NORMAN C. ESTES, MD
Professor & Chair
Program Director
Chief, Section of Oncological Surgery
Dr. Estes is Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery. He is Program Director of the General Surgery Residency Program and Attending Team Leader for the 'Red Service'.
Dr. Estes received his medical degree from the University of Kansas in 1971, served his internship in straight medicine and received his residency training in General Surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Dr. Estes was Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Kentucky from 1976 to 1978 and while in private practice, served as part-time attending surgeon at the University of Missouri-Kansas City from 1978 to 1981. From 1981 to 1984 he was Associate Professor of Surgery at Indiana University. He returned to the University of Kansas in 1984. There, he became Professor of Surgery in 1993 and served as Chief of Staff at the University of Kansas Medical Center from 1992 until his present appointment.
He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and has attended the Program for Chiefs of
Clinical Services and the Advanced Program for Chiefs of Clinical Services at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Estes has published numerous articles on Surgical Oncology. His research interests have focused on tumor proliferation and nutrition as well as clinical studies in breast and gastrointestinal malignancies.
Dr. Estes is a member of numerous oncology and surgical societies and serves or has served as an officer in many. He is the current President of the Warren H. Cole Society.
A native of Missouri, Dr. Estes and his wife Jan reside in Peoria and are the parents of one
daughter and two sons.
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