Dr. Ponsky presents talk "Surgery of the Future" on April 15, 2008 to full house in Frohring Auditorium of the Richard Celeste Biomedical Research Building
 Dr. Ponsky completed his surgical training at University
Hospitals of Cleveland in 1976. He then joined the faculty
of the Department of Surgery at University Hospitals
of Cleveland where he was the Director of Surgical
Endoscopy. In 1979 he became the Director of the
Department of Surgery at The Mt. Sinai Medical Center in
Cleveland where he remained through 1997. During that
time Dr. Ponsky was Professor of Surgery at Case Western
Reserve University School of Medicine and Vice Chairman
of the Department of Surgery at Case. Dr. Ponsky then
joined The Cleveland Clinic as the Director of Endoscopic Surgery and was the first Executive Director of the
Minimally Invasive Surgery Center at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He was also
the Vice Chairman of the Division of Education and Director of Graduate Medical
Education. He has been Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College
of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He has served as a member of
the Board of Governors at The Cleveland Clinic. In 2005 he assumed the Oliver
H. Payne Professorship and Chair of the Department of Surgery at Case Western
University School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland. Dr. Ponsky serves as Surgeon-in-Chief at University Hospitals Case Medical Center.
Dr. Ponsky is Past President of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic
Surgeons (SAGES), Past President of the Ohio Chapter of the American College of
Surgeons, Past President of the Cleveland Surgical Society, and Past President of
the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE). He was recently the
Chairman of the American Board of Surgery, is a Fellow of the American College of
Surgeons, and a member of numerous prominent surgical societies.
Dr. Ponsky is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
and earned his Executive MBA from CWRU’s Weatherhead School of Management
in 1990. He received the distinguished Kaiser Teaching Excellence Award at
CWRU School of Medicine in 1993; the Distinguished Service Award for 2000
by the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons in April 2000;
and in 2002 he received ASGE’s Rudolf Schindler Award, the highest recognition
award for excellence in endoscopic research, teaching and service. Dr. Ponsky
has been listed in The Best Doctors in America each year since its inception. He
has published over 165 original articles and book chapters, authored or edited five
textbooks and serves on the editorial board of eight journals. He is the originator
of the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy which provided a minimally invasive
substitute for operative placement of feeding tubes.
His wife, Jackie, is a counselor and his four children include Lee who is a urologist
at University Hospitals of Cleveland; Todd has joined the U.H. staff in January of ’08
as a pediatric surgeon; Zachary is a real estate investment manager; and Kimberly
is pursuing a career in professional photography. Dr. Ponsky resides in Hunting
Valley, Ohio.
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