Education
University of Delaware, B.A. 1966
Jefferson Medical College, M.D. 1970

Personal
Born in May 1944, Dr. Selinkoff grew up in Wilmington, Del., and earned his bachelor of arts degree in biology from the University of Delaware in 1966. He had previously attended M.I.T. on a National Merit Scholarship. Prior to beginning his medical training, he was a graduate student in genetics at the University of Delaware.

Dr. Selinkoff earned his M.D. degree in 1970 from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Penn. He then returned to Delaware for a one-year internship at the Wilmington Medical Center where his father had practiced as a family physician many years before.

In 1972, during the Vietnam era, Dr. Selinkoff entered the United States Air Force and served as a medical officer for two and one half years in the USAF Security Service in San Vito dei Normanni, Italy. After Dr. Selinkoff completed his overseas duty, the Air Force sponsored him in a four-year surgical residency training program at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic Foundation Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, where he received his surgical training from 1974 to 1978.

Then, Dr. Selinkoff served as Chief of Surgery at Luke Air Force Base in Phoenix, Ariz., from 1978 to 1980, at which time he was offered the opportunity to serve on the surgery staff at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in San Antonio. He served in this capacity until 1984. Dr. Selinkoff spent a total of 12 and a half years in the United States Air Force as a medical officer, separating from the service with the rank of Lt. Colonel. He then entered private practice as a general surgeon in San Antonio in 1984.

Dr. Selinkoff has published numerous scientific articles in the field of general surgery and has lectured surgeons in several symposia on the topic of bariatric surgery. He is a consultant in General Surgery to the Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force and has been a frequent visiting professor at the Brooke Army Medical Center.

A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Selinkoff was certified by the American Board of Surgery in May 1979 and recertified in 1989. He is also a member of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract and a member of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery. With his vast experience and interest in this sub-specialty, Dr. Selinkoff has performed more than 1,200 gastric stapling operations during the past 18 years.

Dr. Selinkoff was vice president of the San Antonio Surgical Society in 1990 and was elected by his peers to serve as their president in 1993. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.
His peers hold him in great respect, and Dr. Selinkoff has been repeatedly named to leadership posts. In 1991, he was elected Chief of General Surgery at The Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital, and, in 1992, he was reelected as Chief of Surgery. He has been on the executive committee of Methodist Hospital in various capacities for several years.

In 1995, Dr. Selinkoff was the Chief of General Surgery at the Santa Rosa Northwest Hospital, and he remains on the active staff of St. Luke's Baptist Hospital. He is on the courtesy staffs at most of the other hospitals in San Antonio. In 1996, he was secretary/treasurer of the medical staff of the Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital, and in 1997 he was elected to be Vice Chief-of-Staff of Methodist Hospital. In 1999, he served as Chief of Staff of The Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital, elected by the 1,600 physicians on the staff of San Antonio's finest hospital.

Dr. Selinkoff has been married to his wife, Carol, for more than 30 years, and they have two grown children.