Justin Maykel MD

Dr. Justin A. Maykel is a 1998 graduate of the Tufts University School of Medicine. He completed a general surgery residency and a clinical fellowship in surgical nutrition/metabolism at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. He completed a colorectal surgery fellowship at the University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Medical School.

He has served as the Chief of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, MA since 2007. His team started a colorectal surgery residency training program in 2012. He is a Professor of Surgery and holds the Joseph M. Streeter and Mary Streeter DeFeudis Endowed Chair in Surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Dr. Maykel has served on the editorial board of several journals, including Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, and Journal of Surgical Oncology. He has co-authored two textbooks entitled “Complexities in Colorectal Surgery” and “Clinical Decision Making in Colorectal Surgery” and is a co-editor of “The ASCRS Textbook of Colon and Rectal Surgery, 4th ed”. He is an active member of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons.