Gerald McKinney, MD, FACS: General Surgeon with The University of Mississippi Medical Center
Dr. Gerald McKinney is a board-certified General Surgeon with The University of Mississippi Medical Center, recognized as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Dr. McKinney has been in practice at the University of Mississippi Medical Center since January 2014. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Morehouse College, and graduated with his medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He then returned to Atlanta and completed his residency in general surgery at the Morehouse School of Medicine, as faculty to his fellowship in minimally invasive surgery.
He then joined a multispecialty group in Michigan City, Indiana, followed by 10 years on faculty at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. Recognized as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), Dr. McKinney is board-certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery (ABS). The ABS is an independent, non-profit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded for the purpose of certifying surgeons who have met a defined standard of education, training, and knowledge.
General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. A general surgeon performs a wide range of abdominal surgeries for many forms of intestinal and abdominal wall neoplasms, gallbladder disease, gastric and pancreatic disease. They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care.