Assistant Professor of Surgery
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Dr. Samer A. Naffouje earned his medical degree at the University of Damascus, College of Medicine in 2010. He completed two research fellowships after graduation; a Colorectal Surgery research fellowship at Mount Sinai / St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital with Dr. Richard L. Whelan (2010-2012), and a Surgical Oncology research fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago with Drs. Tapas K. Das Gupta and George I. Salti (2015-2017). He completed his General Surgery residency training at the University of Illinois at Chicago Hospital (2012-2019) and a fellowship in Complex General Surgical Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL where he now serves as a faculty with a focus on minimally invasive surgery for upper G.I. malignancies.
Dr. Naffouje held 3 grants during his research training including an institutional Pillsbury Grant at the University of Illinois for student surgeon-scientists, DoD Level-II Breakthrough Award, and NIH R-01 grant in intraoperative fluorescence imaging.
Dr. Naffouje's translational research interest resides in studying pancreatic cancer precursors as bridge to primary prevention. He also has a clinical research interest in analyzing outcomes of large national registries.