Dr. George W. Holcomb, III was raised in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended the University of Virginia for college and then Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. His surgery training was at Vanderbilt and his pediatric surgery training was at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Holcomb began his pediatric surgery practice as an Assistant and subsequently Associate Professor of Surgery in the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Vanderbilt. In 1999, he was recruited to replace Dr. Keith Aschraft as Surgeon-in-Chief and the Katharine B. Richardson Professor of Surgery at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. From 1999-2011, he also served as the Program Director of the Pediatric Surgery Residency Training Program. In addition to being the Surgeon-in-Chief, he is also the Director and Senior Vice-President of the Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery. He was awarded a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.