Thomas E. Cataldo, MD, FACS, FASCRS and Deborah Nagle, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Dr. Thomas E. Cataldo is a staff surgeon in the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA, and a visiting assistant professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. He was born in Worcester, MA, and received an MD degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He did his General Surgery residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He then completed a fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans, LA. After completing his training, he joined the staff at Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center in Camden, NJ. In 2005, he moved to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, RI, and joined the faculty at Alpert Medical School of Brown University and served as the Colorectal Surgery Residency Program Director. In 2013, he assumed his current position in Boston.

Dr. Cataldo is Board certified in general and colon and rectal surgery. His contribution to the medical literature includes six book chapters/reviews and 10 peer review articles. He teaches residents and students on a daily basis. Dr. Cataldo has a busy clinical practice and he is an active member of several surgical societies and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS). He also serves on several major committees of the ASCRS.

Tom, his wife, Lisa, and their children, Isabella, Giulio, Sophia, and Lucia, live in Waban, MA, just outside of Boston. Tom is a proud retired member of the U.S. Army Reserve, serving in Kosovo and Iraq. When not working, Tom enjoys suburban farming, wood working, and reading history.

Dr. Deborah Nagle is the Division Chief of Colon and Rectal Surgery at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA, and an assistant professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. She was born in Trenton, NJ, received a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY, and her MD from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Her general surgery training was conducted at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, and was followed by colorectal surgery training at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. She was subsequently on the staff at Drexel University College of Medicine and Cooper University Hospital. In 2006, she moved to Boston to begin the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Dr. Nagle is Board certified in general and colon and rectal surgery. Her contribution to the medical literature includes 16 book chapters/reviews and 27 peer review articles. She teaches residents and students on a daily basis. In addition to her administrative duties, Dr. Nagle is an active researcher and maintains a busy clinical practice. She is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the ASCRS. She is an active member of several surgical societies and has chaired several national committees of the ASCRS. She also served as program co-chair for the ASCRS annual meeting in 2003. She also currently serves on the ASCRS Executive Council as a member-at-large.

On behalf of the readers and staff of Clinics of Colon and Rectal Surgery, I sincerely thank Drs Cataldo and Nagle for serving as Guest Editors and for providing us with a superb issue on emerging technologies.