

Comment on: Risk stratification of serious adverse events after gastric bypass in the bariatric outcomes longitudinal database. Predicting risk for venous thromboembolism with bariatric surgery: results from the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative. Ann Surg 2011 254(4):633-640.įinks JF, English WJ, Carlin AM, Krause KR, Share DA, Banerjee M, Birkmeyer JD, Birkmeyer NJ. Predicting Risk for Serious Complications With Bariatric Surgery: Results from the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative. NEJM 2011 364(22):2128-2137.įinks JF, Kole K, Panduranga Y, English WJ, Krause K, Carlin A, Genaw J, Birkmeyer JD, Birkmeyer NJ. Trends in hospital volume and operative mortality with high risk surgery. The effect of surgical techniques on clinical outcomes following laparoscopic Roux-en Y gastric bypass – Results from the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative. JAMA 2010 304(4):435-442.įinks J, Carlin A, Krause K, Poplawski S, Genaw J, Share D, Fan Z, Birkmeyer J, Birkmeyer N. A population-based study of complications after bariatric surgery. Ann Surg 2010 252(2):313-318.īirkmeyer N, Dimick J, Share D, Hawasli A, English W, Genaw J, Finks J, Birkmeyer J. Preoperative placement of inferior vena caval filters and outcomes after gastric bypass surgery. Surg Innov 2006 13(4):274-279.īirkmeyer NJ, Share D, Baser O, Carlin AM, Finks JF, Pesta CM, Genaw JA, Birkmeyer JD. Classifiying cause of death after cancer surgery. Waljee J, Windisch S, Finks J, Wong S, Birkmeyer J. The rise and fall of antireflux surgery in the United States.

Published Articles or Reviewsįinks J, Wei Y, Birkmeyer J. Finks serves as the faculty advisor and a founder of Doctors of Tomorrow, an outreach program with Cass Technical High School in Detroit designed to help under-represented students achieve careers in the medicine. He also spearheads a program to help with laparoscopic surgery skill development at St Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is the assistant clerkship director for the Department of Surgery and an advisor for the Global Health and Disparities Path of Excellence in the Medical School. Finks serves as co-director of the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative, a payer-funded consortium of hospitals and surgeons in Michigan focused on quality improvement with bariatric surgery. He completed his general surgery residency at the University of Cincinnati and a fellowship in minimally invasive and bariatric surgery at Oregon Health & Science University. He attended Harvard College and received his medical degree from the University of California, Irvine.

Finks is an associate professor of surgery at the University of Michigan.
