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UICOMP SURGERY FACULTY
RICHARD C. ANDERSON, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery
Clerkship Director
Chief, Section of Thoracic Surgery
Dr. Richard Anderson, originally from Yorkville, Illinois, received his undergraduate degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Biochemistry from Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois in 1988. He received his doctorate in medicine from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois in 1992 and completed a Surgical Internship there. His residency in General Surgery was completed at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria in 1998. In 2000, Dr. Anderson completed a Fellowship program at Washington University, Barnes Hospital, in St. Louis, Missouri in Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Anderson is board certified in both General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery by the American Board of Surgery.
He is Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, Chief, Section of Thoracic Surgery and Attending Team Leader for the residency service at our secondary teaching hospital, Methodist Medical Center. In July 2009, he became the Department of Surgery Clerkship Director when Dr. Lorin D. Whittaker, Jr. retired after eighteen years of service as Clerkship Director. Dr. Anderson is also the Director of Education for Methodist Medical Center. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards from the UICOMP campus and the UICOMP Dept of Surgery. For instance, in both 2003 and 2008, he received the UICOMP ‘Golden Apple Award’, an honor given by the medical students to one UICOMP faculty member.
Dr. Anderson is a member and officer of many surgical societies. He currently holds the offices of Illinois State Chair of the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, President of the West Central Region Board of the American Cancer Society, is an Associate Examiner for the American Board of Surgery, and is President of the Peoria Medical Society.
He is an active member of many hospital committees.
He lives in the Peoria area with his wife Janice and their two children.
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