Official profile
Biography and background
Gondek is an associate professor of surgery at Vanderbilt, directs its acute care surgery fellowship and is medical director of the Burn ICU. He earned his medical degree at Northwestern and an MPH at Michigan, completed general surgery residency at Beth Israel Deaconess, and trained in surgical critical care and acute care surgery at Vanderbilt.
Biography source ↗ · Reviewed 24 Oct 2026
Published roles
Roles in plastic surgery training
Each role below keeps the wording of its official source and the date it was reviewed. Names may identify a director, supervisor, host or contact; reconfirm the current appointment with the programme.
Burn Fellowship (with Surgical Critical Care)
Acute Care Surgery Fellowship Program Director; Burn ICU Medical Director
The current linked fellowship page includes a burn-specialisation option requiring additional training time. Gondek is not relabelled as director of a separate standalone burn fellowship. The older burn-centre page describes a different two-year structure; confirm the current route with Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Vanderbilt Burn Center · Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Official fellowship programme or institutional faculty profile ↗Profile reviewed 24 Oct 2026
Programme leadership page →Training context
Published programme focus
These areas describe the linked training programmes, not a complete clinical biography or list of credentials.
Official sources
- Official fellowship programme or institutional faculty profile ↗Reviewed 24 Oct 2026
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Education history, additional appointments, publications and personal contact details are not added without separate official evidence.
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