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Dr. Clary is a native of Imperial, California who graduated from the University of California at San Diego with an undergraduate degree in bioengineering. Dr. Clary received his medical degree from the University of California at San Francisco followed by general surgery residency training at Duke University and a fellowship in surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Clary joined the faculty at Duke University in 2000 where he served for fifteen years in many roles including general surgery residency program director and chief of hepatobiliary surgery. He maintained a very busy clinical practice in complex biliary, liver, and pancreatic surgery and conducted translational research in the area of novel therapeutics for metastatic colorectal cancer. He completed an executive MBA at the Duke Fuqua School of Business in 2014 and in 2015 was recruited to UC San Diego to serve as the Chair of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief for UC San Diego Health. In his current role he is an institutional leader and guides a department of over 130 full-time faculty who deliver nationally recognize state-of-the-art care, conduct practice-changing research, and train the next generation of surgeons and surgeon-scientists. Dr. Clary is a nationally and internationally recognized thought-leader in his field with more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and service on the executive councils of the Americas Hepatopancreatobiliary Association, Society of Surgical Oncology, and Society of Clinical Surgery and on the editorial board of the Annals of Surgery.