Jo Buyske
Class of 1977
Dr. Jo Buyske is the Associate Executive Director of the
American Board of Surgery, and she is the Director of
Evaluation there. She is also a director of the American
Board of Medical Specialties, and sits on the Executive
Committee of the board of SCORE, the Surgical Council
on Resident Education.
Dr. Buyske’s major focus, in addition to exam
development, is on resident education, standards in
training and beyond including flexible training
pathways and re-entry , and international relationships
in surgery.
Dr. Buyske was chief of surgery at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center of the
University of Pennsylvania Health System for 10 years. She continues at Penn as
an adjunct professor of surgery, and has a clinical appointment as a staff
surgeon at the Philadelphia Veteran’s Administration, as well as at the Hospital
of the University of Pennsylvania, where she volunteers on the emergency
surgical service. In addition, Dr. Buyske volunteers as a surgeon several weeks a
year in resource-limited countries, most recently in Haiti and Nepal.
She received her surgical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston, and received her MD degree from Columbia’s College of Physicians and
Surgeons. She majored in English Literature at
Cornell University, where she received her undergraduate degree.
She is a member of many surgical societies, and is
a past-president of the Society of American
Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
(SAGES). She has won numerous mentoring
awards, has been named as a Top Doc in
Philadelphia and nationally, and has been
featured in a Lifetime documentary on women
doctors. She has given well over 100 invited
lectures, and has published extensively.
Dr. Buyske lives in Philadelphia, has four teenage
children, is an avid farm to table cook and diner,
and is a lifelong runner.