To clarify here, Dr. Christopher Wolfgang is an outstanding surgeon but not the world expert. In the US, there are four outstanding Whipple surgeons who take on the more complex vascular-involved cases because they have vascular surgery skills having trained as liver transplantation surgeons. They are Mark Truty at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN; Douglas Evans of Medical College of Wisconsin/Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, WI; Christopher Wolfgang at NYU-Langone in Manhattan and John Chabot who has done over 2,700 Whipple procedures in his long, storied career. It was Dr. Chabot that opera star Luciano Pavarotti selected to do his Whipple at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center-the site where the Whipple was first performed. It says a lot when Pavarotti having a jet at his disposal and money to travel anywhere in the world selected John Chabot to do his Whipple.

Another top Whipple surgeon who deserves mention is world-renowned Daniel Cherqui who was recruited from Paris in 2010 to come to Weill Cornell Medicine to build the Hepatobiliary Department offering expanded liver transplantation and Whipple procedures. Cherqui was one of the three pioneers to develop live liver donor transplantation via laproscopic method for which he is noted. In 2012 when he performed my Whipple surgery with vascular involvement, he didn’t hesitate to continue the surgery. It required a portal vein resection. And despite the tumor not only having penetrated my portal vein, it had been seeding my liver with metastatic cells that first became detectable one week post surgery. At the time he performed my Whipple, Cherqui had done over 1500 Whipples and is now in the neighborhood of where Chabot is.
https://hbsn.amegroups.org/post/view/professor-daniel-cherqui-my-experiences-with-laparoscopic-liver-resection