Edward H. Laughlin is a surgical oncologist and professor of surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham/Huntsville. A graduate of the Duke University School of Medicine he completed the general surgical residency at the University of Virginia Hospital. He has taught medical students for four decades and is the author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, and two books on cancer. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and member of the Society of Surgical Oncology, and American Society of Clinical Oncology.