Dr. Sarr had a research laboratory funded by the NIH for 27 years with numerous basic science publications on gastrointestinal motility and intestinal absorption. He is one of the two editors-in-chief of the journal SURGERY and serves on the editorial boards of several other surgical journals. He is a director of the American Board of Surgery and is a member of numerous national and international surgical societies, having held leadership positions in the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Society of Clinical Surgery, Minnesota Surgical Society, and the International Society of Surgery. His clinical interests include bariatric surgery, abdominal wall hernias, and pancreatic surgery.