Tim Horrell, MD, FACS – General, Endocrine, and Metabolic Surgery 

After completing the General Surgery Residency program at the University of Kentucky in 2019, Dr. Horrell embarked on his first professional appointment, serving in the U.S. Army as a general surgeon at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital in Fort Campbell, Ky.

Dr. Horrell spent most of his active military service at Blanchfield Hospital, but he also served in two deployments. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, he spent seven months at the 411 Hospital Center in Kuwait and Baghdad, Iraq, as part of a medical task force supporting Operation Inherent Resolve.

In August 2021, Dr. Horrell was attached to the 274th Forward Resuscitative Surgical Detachment (FRSD) as part of Operation Allies Refuge, an effort to evacuate at-risk Afghan civilians, American embassy representatives, and other non-combatants during the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.

Before joining the UK Surgery faculty, Dr. Horrell completed the advanced GI minimally invasive surgery/bariatric surgery fellowship at Vanderbilt University.

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