Address:
Brody School of Medicine
600 Moye Blvd. 4S-22
Greenville, NC 27834
Phone: 252-744-5418
Fax: 252-744-5777
E-mail: bellinl@ecu.edu
Education:
Sept. 1985-June 1989
B.A. Rutgers College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Majors: Biology, Psychology
Sept. 1989-June, 1993
M.D. Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Postgraduate Training and Fellowship Appointments:
July 1993-June 1994
Internship, General Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
July 1994-June 1999
Residency, General Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital/University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA
July 1996-June 1997
Research Fellow, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty Appointments:
Aug. 1999-Aug. 2001
Clinical Instructor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Sept. 2001-Feb. 2003
Clinical Associate in Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Mar. 2003-June 2005
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
August 2005-present
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Hospital and Administrative Appointments:
Aug. 1999-June 2001
Active Staff, Benjamin Franklin Clinic, Pennsylvania Hospital/ University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA
July 2001-Dec. 2002
Active Physician, Clinical Care Associates, Pennsylvania Hospital/ University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA
Sept. 2001-Dec. 2002
Courtesy Staff, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Dec. 2002-June 2005
Active Staff, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Dec. 2002-June 2005
Active Staff, Director of Breast Surgery, Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Sept. 2004-June 2005
Active Staff, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
August 2005-Present
Active Staff, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC
August 2005-Present
Active Staff, ECU Physicians, Greenville, NC
Specialty Certification:
American Board of Surgery, 2000
Licensure:
Pennsylvania MD058276-L (1996)
North Carolina (2005-00513)
Memberships in Professional and Scientific Societies:
National Societies:
- Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
- American Society of Breast Surgeons 2003
- Associate Fellow, American College of Surgeons 2004
- Initiate, American College of Surgeons 2005
Academic Committees:
At the University of Pennsylvania and Affiliated Hospitals:
1999-2002
Invasive procedures Committee, Pennsylvania Hospital
1999-2002
Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, Pennsylvania Hospital
1999-2002
Joint Practice Committee, Pennsylvania Hospital
Major Teaching and Clinical Responsibilities:
At the University of Pennsylvania and Affiliated Hospitals:
Feb. 1996
Assistant Instructor, Properitoneal Laparoscopic Herniorrhaphy Course, Pennsylvania Hospital
March 1996
Assistant Instructor, International Properitoneal Laparoscopic Herniorrhaphy Course, Pennsylvania Hospital
March 1996
Assistant Instructor, Satellite Broadcast of Properitoneal Laparoscopic Herniorrhaphy Course to Fourth Annual World Congress of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons/ SAGES, Pennsylvania Hospital
April 1996
Assistant Instructor, Properitoneal Laparoscopic Herniorrhaphy Course, Pennsylvania Hospital
March 1998 Assistant Instructor, Properitoneal Laparoscopic Herniorrhaphy
Course, Pennsylvania Hospital
April 2003
Instructor, Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair,
May 2004
Instructor, GI Prosection Anatomy Teaching Module, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Feb-Jun 2005
Preceptor, “Doctoring”; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Lectures by Invitation:
Dec. 1998
Bellin LS, Schuricht AL. “Preperitoneal Laparoscopic Herniorrhaphy: Lessons Learned from 1000 Hernia Repairs.” Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons. San Diego, CA.
Sept. 1999
O’Brien L, Bellin LS, Isenberg GA, Goldstein SD. “Spontaneous Transvaginal Small Bowel Evisceration following Perineal Proctectomy.” Pennsylvania Colorectal Society Meeting. Philadelphia, PA.
Oct 2004
Bellin, LS “Oncologic Breast Surgery: Sentinel node, Oncoplastics, and Reconstruction” 30th Annual American Society of Plastic Surgical Nurses Convention. Philadelphia, PA
May 2005
“Breast Cancer Screening and Early Diagnosis - What's New?” Mainly your Health Talk, Penn Medicine at Radnor, Radnor, PA
May 2005
“Current Strategies in Inguinal Hernia Repair” Penn General Surgery Update 2005. Philadelphia, PA
Jan 2006
“Evaluating Breast Complaints” Family Medicine Department, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Bibliography:
Research Publications, Peer Reviewed:
1. Deutschman CS, Andrejko KM, Haber B, Bellin LS, Elenko E, Harrison R, Taub R. “Sepsis- Induced Depression of Rat Glucose –6- Phosphatase Gene Expression and Activity.” American Journal of Physiology 273(5 pt 2):R1709-1718, November 1997.
2. Weiss YG, Bellin LS, Kim PK, Andrejko KM, Raj N, Furth EE, Deutschman CS. “Compensatory Hepatic Regeneration after Mild, but not Fulminant, Intraperitoneal Sepsis in rats.” American Journal of Physiology- Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology 280(5):G968-973, May 2001.
3. O’Brien, L, Bellin, LS, GA Isenberg, SD Goldstein. “Spontaneous Transvaginal Small Bowel Evisceration following Perineal Proctectomy.” Diseases of the Colon and Rectum 45(5):698-699, May 2002.
