105 Clinical Questions in Colorectal Surgery
暫譯: 105 個結腸直腸外科臨床問題

James Church was born and raised in New Zealand, attending Medical School and having his surgical training in Auckland, and receiving a Fellowship diploma from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1981. In 1983 he and his family travelled to the Cleveland Clinic for a clinical fellowship in the department of Colorectal Surgery and in 1989 he joined the staff of the Department. While at Cleveland Dr Church held the Victor W. Fazio Chair of Colorectal Surgery, was Vice Chair of the department, Head of Research, Director of the Section of Endoscopy, and Director of the Weiss Center for Hereditary Colorectal Neoplasia. Dr Church left Cleveland in 2021 and is currently a Professor of Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.

During his 32-year career Dr Church has been Chairman of the Leeds Castle Polyposis Group and the International Collaborative Group on HNPCC and founded the Collaborative Group of the Americas for Inherited Gastrointestinal Cancer. He was Co-Editor of Diseases of the Colon and Rectum for 10 years, Vice President of ASCRS and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Auckland. He is a Fellow of the American Surgical Association, honorary Fellow of several national surgical and gastroenterological societies, sole author of 3 textbooks, editor of several, and author or co-author of over 445 peer-reviewed articles. A Chair in Colorectal Surgery and a Fellowship in Hereditary Colorectal Cancer both bear his name at the Cleveland Clinic.

詹姆斯·丘奇（James Church）出生並成長於紐西蘭，曾在奧克蘭就讀醫學院並接受外科訓練，並於1981年獲得澳洲皇家外科醫學院的研究員文憑。1983年，他和家人前往克里夫蘭診所（Cleveland Clinic）進行大腸直腸外科的臨床研究員訓練，並於1989年加入該部門的工作。在克里夫蘭期間，丘奇醫生擔任大腸直腸外科的維克多·W·法齊奧（Victor W. Fazio）主席，部門副主席，研究主任，內視鏡科主任，以及遺傳性大腸腫瘤中心的主任。丘奇醫生於2021年離開克里夫蘭，目前是紐約哥倫比亞大學醫學中心的外科教授。

在其32年的職業生涯中，丘奇醫生曾擔任利茲城堡息肉症小組（Leeds Castle Polyposis Group）主席及國際HNPCC合作小組（International Collaborative Group on HNPCC）主席，並創立了美洲遺傳性腸胃癌合作小組（Collaborative Group of the Americas for Inherited Gastrointestinal Cancer）。他曾擔任《結腸與直腸疾病》（Diseases of the Colon and Rectum）期刊的共同編輯10年，並擔任美國結腸直腸外科醫學會（ASCRS）副會長，獲得奧克蘭大學的傑出校友獎。他是美國外科醫學會的研究員，並是多個國家外科及腸胃學會的榮譽研究員，獨立撰寫了3本教科書，編輯了多本書籍，並是超過445篇同行評審文章的作者或共同作者。在克里夫蘭診所，大腸直腸外科的主席職位及遺傳性大腸癌的研究員職位均以他的名字命名。