Dr. Wexner is Director of the Ellen Leifer Shulman and Steven Shulman Digestive Disease Center and Emeritus Chairman of the Department of Colorectal Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Florida.

 

He was the vice chair of the Board of Regents of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), is Chair of the ACS Commission on Cancer (CoC) National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer, and member of the CoC executive committee. Dr. Wexner is Past President of; the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS), ASCRS Research Foundation, American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery, and the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons.  He is an Editor-in-Chief of Surgery, an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) in Ireland, Glasgow, and England and a fellow of Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh.  He is an honorary member or fellow of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, European Society of Coloproctology, Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand, European Association of Endoscopy Surgery, the European Surgical Association, and over 20 other national and international societies.  He is also a member of the ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators.   

 

In August 2022, Dr. Wexner was listed amongst the top 2% of the most cited scientists in 198 scientific fields and subfields.  He ranked 10th amongst all cited GI surgeons with an H index of 100 and is currently the most cited living colorectal surgeon.