Originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Thomas Curran, M.D., MPH, received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and subsequently his medical degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. He completed general surgery residency and research fellowship at the Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston during which time he received a masters of public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. From there he pursued a year of specialty fellowship training in colon and rectal surgery at the University of Minnesota before joining the faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina. His clinical interests include benign anorectal conditions, inflammatory bowel disease and colon and rectal cancer with a particular focus on minimally invasive and robotic surgical procedures. His research interests focus on comparative effectiveness and quality improvement in colon and rectal surgery.
