Kevin K. Roggin, MD, FACS, FSSO
Dr. Kevin Roggin is the Division Chief of Surgical Oncology at the Medical University of South Carolina and Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston. He is known as an innovator and expert in robotic surgery and helped enhance and expand the facility’s cytoreductive surgery and heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CRS-HIPEC) program, which is particularly effective for the treatment of malignant peritoneal mesothelioma.[1]
Dr. Roggin is credited with introducing robotic approaches to many complex surgical oncology procedures and helped develop a multidisciplinary program for the management of CDH1 gene mutation carriers. He has performed over 25 minimally invasive risk-reducing total gastrectomy operations over the last four years.[2]
Education and Career
Dr. Roggin completed his undergraduate education at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, earning a Bachelor of Arts with distinction in Political Science. He earned his medical degree at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed his internship and residency in Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He completed a residency in Surgery and a Research fellowship at Brown University. Then he completed a fellowship in Complex General Surgical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.[1]
Dr. Roggin was a surgical educator at the University of Chicago Medicine, earning the title of Master Educator in the Academy of Medical Educators at the Pritzker School of Medicine, and for 12 of those years, he was the General Surgery Program Director. He has received the Gold Humanism Honors Society award, the Senior Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division, and the Program Director of the Year award from the University of Chicago Medicine.[2]
Professional Memberships and Activities
Dr. Roggin has served two three-year terms on the Executive Council of the Society of Surgical Oncology and as Chair of the Society of Surgical Oncology’s Training Committee. Other memberships and committees include:[1]
- Member, American Society of Clinical Oncology – ASCO
- Faculty, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society – AOA
- Member, Society of Surgical Oncology – SSO
- Member, Association for Academic Surgery – AAS
- Member, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract – SSAT
- Member, American College of Surgeons – ACS
- Representative for HPB, ACS, Owen H Wangensteen Scientific Forum Committee, 2016 – Present
- Chair, Society of Surgical Oncology Training Committee, 2014 – 2016
- Member, APDS Research Committee, 2013 – 2016
- Councilor-at-Large, Society of Surgical Oncology Executive Council, 2013 – 2016
- Vice Chair, Society of Surgical Oncology Training Committee, 2011 – 2013
Research
Dr. Roggin is a prolific researcher and author. His research, publications, abstracts/posters, and lectures include:[1]
- Single center outcomes from parenchymal-sparing resections and microwave ablations for neuroendocrine tumor liver metastases.Frances T Lee, Jelani Williams, Rachel Nordgren, Jason L Schwarz, Namrata Setia, Kevin Roggin, Blase Polite, Govind Rangrass, Chih-Yi Liao, J Michael Millis, Xavier M …>; American Journal of Surgery. 2023 Sep 26
- Endoscopic Ultrasound Predicts Risk of Occult Intra-Abdominal Metastases in Localized Gastric Cancer: A Validation Study.Fares Ayoub, Christopher G Chapman, Heather Chen, Namrata Setia, Kevin Roggin, Uzma D Siddiqui>; Gastroenterology Research. 2023 Feb 1
- Surgical considerations and outcomes of minimally invasive approaches for gastric cancer resection. Jason L Schwarz, Kevin K Roggin, Ong, C.>;Cancer. 2022 Nov 15
Books/Book Chapters
- Shakelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Chapter: Chapter 130: Management of Secondary Hepatic Neoplasms, Page 1585 – 1592, Andrade-Barreto JC, MC Posner, and KK RogginEditors: C.J. Yeo, J.B. Matthews, D. McFadden, J. Pemberton, and J. Peters.Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA, 2013
Abstracts/Posters
- Characteristics of Highly Ranked Applicants to General Surgery Residency Programs (Oral Presentation), SC Stain, JR Hiatt, KE Deveney, LD Britt, SW Ashley, A Ata, JM Galante, KK Roggin, RA Moore, EC Ellison, New England Surgical Meeting, 1/1/2013
- Predicting Unfavorable Outcome in Non-Functional Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors (Oral Presentation), J Cherenfant, S Stock, M Gage, H Du, T Thurow, M Odeleye, S Schimpke, K Kaul, C Hall, I Lamzabi, P Gattuso, D Winchester, R Marsh, K Roggin, D Bentrem, M Baker, R Prin…, Central Surgical Annual Meeting, 1/1/2013
- Tumor grade, not extent of resection, is associated with survival in patients with duodenal neuroendocrine tumors (Plenary Session Oral Presentation), B Untch, L Tang, K Bonner, K Roggin, Y Fong, P Allen, M D’Angelica, R DeMatteo, W Jarnigan, P Kingham, SSAT Annual Meeting, 1/1/2013
Lectures
- Fellows Institute (Invited Speaker and Panelist) Phoenix, AZ – 1/1/2014
- Surgical Sub-Specialties Chicago, IL – 1/1/2014
- UME-GME Transition (Invited Panelist) Chicago, IL – 1/1/2013
