Dr. Roberto Kusminsky Named Chair of WVU Charleston Division Department of Surgery

Dr. Roberto Kusminsky MD, FACS, MPH has been named chairman of the West Virginia University Charleston Division department of Surgery.

A board certified general surgeon, Dr. Kusminsky received his medical degree at the University of Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He completed a surgical internship and residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Medical College of Pennsylvania, both in Philadelphia, respectively. He went on to complete a colorectal residency from Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.

He was one of the researchers involved in the University of Vermont original study of sentinel node identification with a radiotracer, and later became a core trainer for the NASBP B-32 breast protocol. Dr. Kusminsky currently serves as the clinical director for quality improvement for surgical services at West Virginia University’s Charleston Campus at Charleston Area Medical Center Memorial Division, and he is the medical director of the institution’s breast center. He currently holds the position of professor of surgery at the West Virginia University Health Sciences Center, Charleston.

In addition to his scientific publications, Dr. Kusminsky made his first step into the world of fiction with the publishing of his novel “Counsel of the Wicked,” which follows a surgeon and a geneticist on a deadly cat-and-mouse chase with a ruthless art dealer who is intent on recovering treasures looted by the Nazis and hidden in South America decades earlier.

Dr. Kusminsky lives in Charleston with his wife, Liliana, and is honored and humbled to accept the position held by his dear friend Dr. James Boland.

Dr. Kusminsky recently led his department in the creation and publication of an annual report detailing the many services offered within the surgery departments and sharing touching stories and impressive statistics of the group’s life-changing and life-saving work.