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IN THIS ISSUE
3	Surgery Research                       14    News Briefs

6     A Point of Pride                    19    Teaching Awards

7    	
      2021 Graduates                      20   	
                                                Welcome New Trainees

8     Selected Publications               22    Harvard Surgery Research Day
                                                                                    Summer 2021
10    HMS Promotions                      23    In Memoriam                         Volume 11, No. 2

12   	
      Alumni Spotlight:                   24 Gift Supports Pancreatic
                                                                                    Inside Surgery is published by the
      Prathima Nandivada, MD              		 Cancer Research
                                                                                    Office of the Chairman of the
13   	
      New Faculty                                                                   Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner
                                                                                    Department of Surgery at Beth Israel
                                                                                    Deaconess Medical Center for
                                                                                    faculty, trainees, staff, alumni,
Message from the Chair                                                              affiliates, and friends.

A
                                                                                    The mission of the
     s we emerge from the pandemic with hope of                                     Department of Surgery:
     returning to the life we once knew, we remember
                                                                                    • Provide care of the very
those who lost loved ones or livelihoods, or who struggle                             highest quality
to regain a sense of balance and community. All of us                               • Improve health through
continue to bear witness to the fragility of our global                               innovation and discovery
community and the transience of health and well-being.                              • Prepare future leaders in
                                                                                      American surgery
     As a society, we have long embraced the critical importance of fostering
                                                                                    • Serve our communities with
the generation of knowledge to make a difference in every facet of our lives.         sensitivity and compassion
One truly remarkable aspect of the past 18 months was our capacity to
mobilize every available resource from the worlds of science, public policy,        Surgery Chair
and public health to “work the problem.” This effort catalyzed new fields of        Elliot Chaikof, MD, PhD
therapeutics of unprecedented efficacy and novel approaches to evaluating           Editor/Writer
                                                                                    Hilary Bennett
and translating discoveries.
                                                                                    Photography
     The generation of knowledge through research has been a cornerstone            Danielle Duffey/BIDMC
of our department since its founding. As you will read in our cover story,          James Dwyer/BIDMC
virtually all of our faculty and trainees conduct research that is transforming
our understanding and treatment of challenging diseases, enhancing                  Please forward comments, news
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surgical training, and revealing and finding solutions to address disparities
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in surgical care.                                                                   Editor, Inside Surgery, Beth Israel
     We believe that for research to thrive and bear fruit, it requires an          Deaconess Medical Center,
optimal milieu. We understand that innovation and discovery do not occur            Department of Surgery, LMOB-9C,
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in isolation but rather at the interface of disciplines, where diverse viewpoints
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interact, problems are examined from multiple perspectives, and ideas
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germinate into new solutions to intractable clinical problems. Thus, we
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continually strive to foster innovation by providing an environment that
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nurtures intellectual diversity, embraces individual freedom and flexibility,
and promotes spontaneity and originality. By embracing these values,
                                                                                    Cover photo: Susan Hagen, PhD,
we are able to further our mission to develop more effective approaches             Associate Vice Chair for Research
to promote health and well-being, prevent illness, and treat or cure disease.       in the Department of Surgery and
                                                                                    Director of the BIDMC Microscopy
     The author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote, “As for the future,     and Histopathology Cores. Dr. Hagen’s
your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.” By questioning the status quo,   research focuses on the development
innovating, and collaborating, the women and men of the Department of               of gastric cancer, one of the leading
                                                                                    causes of cancer deaths worldwide.
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L   ymphedema is an incurable, painful, and
    potentially life-threatening condition that affects
1.2 million patients in the United States, most of
whom have undergone surgery for breast cancer,
which often requires the removal of lymph nodes.
     To plastic surgeon Dhruv Singhal, MD, Director
of Lymphatic Surgery at BIDMC, this state of affairs
is simply unacceptable. So, when he is not providing
the latest treatments for patients with or at high risk
of lymphedema, he is engaged in research focused
on improving their care and, ideally, preventing the
condition entirely.
     “One of the biggest challenges we face
                                                          Dhruv Singhal, MD (left), conducts NIH-funded research aimed
in treating lymphedema is that the current                at predicting and preventing lymphedema.
understanding of the lymphatic system is limited,
and we also have no way to accurately measure its         an intensely painful and potentially life-threatening
function,” says Dr. Singhal, who is also Co-director      condition—in patients with sickle cell disease.
of the Boston Lymphatic Center.                               It is also true for surgical oncologist A. James
     Thanks to Dr. Singhal’s ongoing research, that       Moser, MD, who is collaborating with researchers
will likely change. Earlier this year, Dr. Singhal        nationwide to identify biomarkers for the diagnosis
received an R01 grant from the National Institutes        and targeted treatment of pancreatic cancer (see
of Health (NIH) to fund his research project that         page 24), and Christiane Ferran, MD, PhD, whose
seeks to define the anatomy of an alternate               Harvard Medical School-funded research may lead
pathway involved in lymphatic drainage from the           to a novel treatment for type 1 diabetes that does
arm (see page 16). He and his team will map its           not require insulin.
variations in both healthy women and those who
have undergone breast cancer treatment that puts            Surgery Research Leadership
them at high risk for lymphedema.
     With this information, surgeons could predict                         Richard D. Cummings, PhD
which variations predispose breast cancer                                  Vice Chair, Basic and
patients to develop lymphedema. Dr. Singhal then                           Translational Research
plans to develop a novel method of noninvasive
intraoperative optical imaging to assess the
function of this pathway during surgery. “This would                       Susan Hagen, PhD
enable us to predict a patient’s risk of developing                        Associate Vice Chair, Research
lymphedema and, if warranted, implement
preventive interventions,” says Dr. Singhal.

Unsolved problems an inspiration                                           Benjamin James, MD, MS
For surgeon-scientists like Dr. Singhal, as well as                        Director, Resident Research
non-clinical researchers in the Department of
Surgery, the inspiration for their research—the
question they “own”—often arises from unsolved
                                                                           James Rodrigue, PhD
problems in the clinic, which fuels their passion
                                                                           Vice Chair, Clinical Research
to find answers that will improve patients’ lives.
     That is certainly the case for Richard D.
Cummings, PhD, whose laboratory research led to
a new, FDA-approved treatment that significantly
reduces the frequency of vaso-occlusive crises—                                                   Continued on page 4 >

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    And it is likewise the case for the scores of other
surgeon-scientists and laboratory investigators—as
                                                                       Interdisciplinary Research
well as the trainees they mentor—in the Department                     Research is conducted in all of our clinical divisions
of Surgery, whose research is inspired by unsolved                     as well as our interdisciplinary research programs,
problems and the patients it may someday benefit.                      which foster collaborations among investigators
                                                                       throughout Boston, the nation, and the world, in
                                                                       both academia and the life sciences and medical
A cornerstone of the department
                                                                       technology industries.
Research has been a cornerstone of the
Department of Surgery since its founding more                          • Center for Drug Discovery and Translational
than 150 years ago. Today, all divisions and nearly                      Research; Director: Lijun Sun, PhD
all faculty members participate in translational or                    • Center for the Study of Nutrition Medicine;
clinical research programs, receiving funding from                       Directors: Richard D. Cummings, PhD, Jin-Rong
multiple sources. Many of these programs include                         Zhou, PhD
undergraduates, medical students, and residents                        • Harvard Medical School Center for Glycoscience;
pursuing research electives and fellowships, as well                     Director: Richard D. Cummings, PhD
as postdoctoral fellows. Additionally, numerous
                                                                       • Rongxiang Xu, MD Center for Regenerative
research nurses, clinical coordinators, and
                                                                         Therapeutics; Director: Aristidis Veves, MD, DSc
biostatisticians support these research efforts,
which take place in 25,000 square feet of space
across the BIDMC campus.
     The types of research in which the department is
engaged are diverse and span the entire spectrum
                                                                        580+ Scholarly Articles
from bench to bedside. For example, investigators
conduct laboratory-based research to define the                         Members of the Department of Surgery
                                                                        disseminate their findings internationally by
molecular basis of disease; develop novel surgical
                                                                        publishing, on average, 580+ peer-reviewed
approaches, tools, and devices; and evaluate the
                                                                        scholarly articles a year, as well as numerous
effectiveness of competing interventions. They also
                                                                        chapters and textbooks in the fields of surgery
carry out studies of large communities that shed
                                                                        and biomedical sciences. Many faculty also serve
light on disparities in the delivery of surgical care
                                                                        as editors or reviewers for high-impact scholarly
or access to treatment for society’s most vulnerable
                                                                        journals such as JAMA, New England Journal of
citizens. In addition, investigators conduct research
                                                                        Medicine, Lancet, Science, and Nature.
to determine the best ways to train surgeons to
meet the challenges of the 21st century.

  Research Grants by Division*
                                                                       Acute Care Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care
                                                                       $4,246,546
   Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
                         $6,313,045                                                     Cardiac Surgery
                                                                                        $218,600
           Urologic Surgery                                                                   General Surgery
                 $893,625                                                                     $992,566
                                                                                              Interdisciplinary Surgery
        Transplant Surgery
                                                                                              $2,438,158
               $2,148,440
                                                                                             Neurosurgery
         Thoracic Surgery and                                                                $302,256
  Interventional Pulmonology
                    $406,566                                                            Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
                                                                                        $187,515
                     Surgical Oncology                                               Podiatric Surgery
                           $1,458,502                                                $1,522,767

 *Fiscal year 2020 (October 1, 2019-September 30, 2020); includes research training grants

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                                                            $21M+ in Research Funding
                                                            The Department of Surgery’s total research
                                                            funding from all sources, including the National
                                                            Institutes of Health (NIH), exceeded $21 million in
                                                            fiscal year (FY) 2020.
                                                                  In addition to federal grants from the NIH,
                                                            the Department of Defense, the Health Resources
                                                            and Service Administration, and other federal
                                                            agencies, our investigators receive funding from
                                                            Harvard Medical School, foundations, industry,
                                                            and generous donors.

                                                         as part of their surgical training.
                                                              Still, another is the FIRST (Facilitating Innovative
    Through the department’s Center for Drug             Research and Surgical Trials) Program, which
Discovery and Translational Research—one of              provides faculty and trainees with comprehensive
several interdisciplinary research programs—             clinical research support from staff with extensive
research teams are designing new molecular               experience in all facets of clinical research. The
and biologic agents to treat patients with cancer        FIRST Program also hosts research-focused
and other serious conditions. Researchers in             seminars throughout the academic year.
the department are also investigating novel
applications of machine learning and recent              Research training grants
innovations in the field of data science.                The department is the recipient of numerous
                                                         research training grants from the NIH. These include
Innovative programs support research                     its longstanding T32 training grant in vascular
To support faculty and trainees in these and all         surgery research and a T35 grant supporting
research endeavors, the Department of Surgery            summer research opportunities for medical
has introduced a number of innovative programs           students. In addition, the department was awarded
over the past 10 years.                                  two Mentored Clinical Scientist awards from the
     One, which was recently described in the            NIH to assist clinical fellows with their transition to
journal Academic Medicine, is the Surgical               becoming independent research investigators.
Program in Innovation (SPIN). SPIN is a six-month              The department’s research has an international
workshop-based curriculum to teach surgical              impact, reaching and influencing investigators
trainees the basics of the innovation process,           worldwide through the publication each year
focusing on problem identification, product design,      of hundreds of scholarly papers in high-impact,
prototype fabrication, and initial steps in the          peer-reviewed scientific journals (see page 4) and
commercialization process. Taught by medical,            the faculty’s leadership in influential surgical and
engineering, and medical technology industry             scientific organizations. But its most significant
faculty, participants collaborate in teams to develop    impact—today and in the future—is in the lives
a novel device, fabricate a prototype, and pitch their   of patients.
product to a panel of judges.
     Another is the Clinical Scholarship Program,
which pairs all first-year categorical general            ➔    For a comprehensive look at the
surgery residents with a faculty research mentor,              Department of Surgery’s research,
who guides the residents throughout the year as                please see our annual Surgery
                                                               Research Reports via the home
they acquire the skills to develop and implement a
                                                               page of our website. To request
clinical research project. In 2020, Harvard Medical
                                                               a print copy of the latest (FY 2020)
School recognized the Clinical Scholarship Program             Surgery Research Report,
with its annual Program Award for a Culture of                 please email us at:
Excellence in Mentoring. Nearly all Surgery residents          surgerycommunications@bidmc.harvard.edu.
pursue a two- or three-year research fellowship

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A Point of Pride
Department Fosters an Inclusive Culture

W       hen resident Daniel Cloonan, MD, was in his
        final year of medical school at the University
of Nebraska, he had little doubt about which
surgical residency program would be his top choice.
Jordan Broekhuis, MD, his partner since medical
school, was a first-year resident in the BIDMC
General Surgery Residency Program and spoke
highly not only about his training but also
the inclusive culture for all residents, including
LGBTQ+ individuals.
     “I knew from Jordan and the residents I met
through him that I would also feel welcome,
safe, and valued in the BIDMC program,” says
Dr. Cloonan, a PGY3 who is now in the first year
                                                         The new “Progress Pride” flag was hoisted at the Massachusetts
of his research elective at Massachusetts                State House in Boston in June 2020. The flag is explicitly inclusive
General Hospital.                                        of transgender people and people of color.

     The other programs Dr. Cloonan interviewed
                                                              Dr. Digesu, who serves on the Surgery DEI
with had no representation from the queer
                                                         Committee, agrees that being open about who you
community, while it was clear during his interviews
                                                         are is vital to thriving during the rigors of surgical
at BIDMC that being openly gay was not only
                                                         training. “It is important to feel comfortable talking
accepted but also celebrated. Having witnessed
                                                         about your life with colleagues with whom you
and experienced mistreatment and derogation
                                                         spend so much time over many years, sometimes
throughout his education, Dr. Cloonan finds it
                                                         in stressful circumstances,” he says.
a relief to work in an environment where he can
                                                              All three doctors applaud the department’s
be fully himself with fellow trainees and faculty
                                                         multi-faceted, ongoing efforts to achieve greater
members without fear of negative consequences.
                                                         diversity, equity, and inclusion, and believe it is
     As a white man, Dr. Cloonan acknowledges that
                                                         making significant progress, as evidenced by the
he has it easier than others in the queer community,
                                                         award it recently received from Harvard Medical
including women, people of color, and transgender
                                                         School (see page 14). While they acknowledge
individuals. Still, he believes that the department’s
                                                         there is still work to be done, they agree that the
inclusive culture benefits everyone in its training
                                                         department’s longtime commitment to DEI
programs, likening it to “a rising tide that raises
                                                         makes it easier to identify and address areas
all boats.”
                                                         for improvement.
     Dr. Broekhuis, a PGY4 who is now in the first
                                                              “Our [general surgery] program director
year of his research elective at BIDMC, is equally
                                                         Dr. [Tara] Kent, Dr. Chaikof, and the other leaders
positive about his experiences as an applicant
                                                         the department have always made it clear that
and resident. When he was interviewing in 2017,
                                                         they value the whole person, regardless of their
he attended a department-sponsored dinner
                                                         gender, sexual orientation, or background,” says
where Christopher Digesu, MD, a general surgery
                                                         Dr. Broekhuis. “They see applicants and trainees
residency alumnus who is now a cardiothoracic
                                                         as individuals who have unique backgrounds and
surgery fellow at BIDMC, was in attendance with
                                                         strengths, and strive to help them become the best
his then partner. “The clear LGBTQ+ visibility at this
                                                         possible surgeons they can be.”
recruitment event spoke volumes about the training
program,” says Dr. Broekhuis. “I got the sense—since           To learn more about the Department of Surgery
fully justified—that these are my people and that        ➔     Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,
they would support me.”                                        visit our website: bidmc.org/surgery.

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Congratulations to Our 2021 Graduates

Recent graduates of the General Surgery and Integrated Vascular Surgery Residency Programs (from left): Christopher Barrett, MD,
Jordan Pyda, MD, MPH, Nicholas Swerdlow, MD, Patric Liang, MD (Integrated Vascular Surgery), Asish Misra, MD, PhD, Kortney Robinson,
MD, MPH, Borami Shin, MD, and Charity Glass, MD, MPP. Not pictured is Shen Li, MD.

RESIDENTS                                                    FELLOWS
General Surgery                                              Acute Care Surgery                      Minimally Invasive
Christopher Barrett, MD                                      Stephanie Maroney, MD                   Urologic Surgery
Fellowship: Surgical Critical Care,
                                                             Advanced GI and Minimally               Da David Jiang, MD
Boston Medical Center
                                                             Invasive Surgery
Charity Glass, MD, MPP*                                                                              Plastic and
                                                             Keitaro Nakamoto, MD
Fellowship: Breast Surgical Oncology                                                                 Reconstructive Surgery
                                                             Breast Surgical Oncology
Shen Li, MD*                                                                                            Aesthetic and
                                                             Stephanie Serres, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Surgical Oncology,                                                                          Reconstructive Surgery
University of Chicago                                        Cardiothoracic Surgery                     Ashley Nadia Boustany, MD
                                                             Ammara Abbasi Watkins,
Asish Misra, MD, PhD                                                                                    Microsurgery
                                                             MD, MPH
Fellowship: Transplant Surgery,                                                                         Amy Maselli, MD
Keck School of Medicine of USC                               Colon and Rectal Surgery
                                                                                                     Surgical Critical Care
                                                             Jeremy Dressler, MD
Jordan Pyda, MD, MPH                                                                                 Eran Brauner, MD
Fellowship: Transplant Surgery,                              Endovascular and Operative
                                                                                                     Vascular Surgery
The Johns Hopkins Hospital                                   Neurovascular Surgery
                                                                                                     Melinda Schaller, MD
                                                             Dominic Harris, MD
Kortney Robinson, MD, MPH
Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Surgery,                          Hand/Upper Extremity Surgery
Baylor Scott & White Dallas-Fort Worth                       Rikesh Gandhi, MD
Borami Shin, MD                                              Swapnil Kachare, MD
Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Surgery,                          Brian Schurko, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital                                 Interventional Pulmonology
Nicholas Swerdlow, MD                                        Hyun Kim, MD
Fellowship: Vascular Surgery,                                Anastasiia Rudkovskaia, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center                         Faisal Shaikh, MD
                                                             Sandeep Somalaraju, MD
Integrated Vascular Surgery
Patric Liang, MD                                               Advanced Diagnostic
                                                               Bronchoscopy
Podiatric Surgery
                                                               Anjan Devaraj, MD
Casey Lewis, DPM
                                                               Shahzad Khan, MD
John Martucci, DPM
                                                               Keren Mendez-Ramirez, MD
* Graduating Fall 2021                                         Sidra Raoof, MD

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Selected
Publications

Acute Care Surgery, Trauma,                       Neurosurgery                                     Otolaryngology/Head
and Surgical Critical Care                        Cavalcanti DD, Nelson PK, Raz E, Shapiro M,      and Neck Surgery
Ledderose C, Bromberger S, Slubowski CJ,          Nossek E, Tanweer O, Riina HA; Endovascular      Gomez ED, Ceremsak JJ, Leibowitz A, Jalisi S.
Sueyoshi K, Junger WG. Frontline Science:         Neurosurgery Research Group (ENRG)               A novel cough simulation device for
P2Y11 receptors support T cell activation by      including Ogilvy CS and Thomas AJ.               education of risk mitigation techniques
directing mitochondrial trafficking to the        Endovascular treatment of aneurysms using        during aerosol-generating medical
immune synapse. J Leukoc Biol                     flow-diversion embolization: 2-dimensional       procedures. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
2021;109(3):497-508.                              operative video. Oper Neurosurg                  2021; in press.
                                                  2021;20(4):E284-5.
Narula N, Tsikis S, Jinadasa SP, Parsons CS,                                                       Naples JG, Castellanos I, Moberly AC.
Cook CH, Butt B, Odom SR. The effect of           Gomez-Paz S, Akamatsu Y, Salem MM,               Considerations for integrating cognitive
anticoagulation and antiplatelet use in           Enriquez-Marulanda A, Robinson TM, Ogilvy        testing into adult cochlear implant
trauma patients on mortality and length           CS, Thomas AJ, Moore JM. Upfront middle          evaluations: Foundations for the future. JAMA
of stay. Am Surg 2021; in press.                  meningeal artery embolization for treatment      Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2021; in press.
                                                  of chronic subdural hematomas in patients
Siracusa R, Schaufler A, Calabrese V, Fuller      with or without midline shift. Interv            Rubin SJ, Wu KY, Kirke DN, Ezzat WH, Truong
PM, Otterbein LE. Carbon monoxide: From           Neuroradiol 2020;Dec 29:1591019920982816.        MT, Salama AR, Jalisi S. Head and neck
poison to clinical trials. Trends Pharmacol Sci                                                    cancer complications in the geriatric
2021;Mar 26:S0165-6147(21)00041-9.                Mackel CE, Nelton EB, Reynolds RM, Fox WC,       population based on hospital case volume.
                                                  Spiotta AM, Stippler M. A scoping review of
                                                                                                   Ear Nose Throat J 2021;100(2):NP62-68.
                                                  burnout in neurosurgery. Neurosurgery
Bariatric and Minimally                           2021:nyaa564.
Invasive Surgery                                                                                   Plastic and
                                                  Maragkos GA, Filippidis AS, Chilamkurthy S,      Reconstructive Surgery
Abdalla M, Jones DB. Weight loss following
                                                  Salem MM, Tanamala S, Gomez-Paz S, Rao
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass causally                                                                  Crystal DT, Cuccolo NG, Plewinski MJ,
                                                  P, Moore JM, Papavassiliou E, Hackney D,
implicated with serum levels of IL-22: A                                                           Ibrahim AMS, Sinkin JC, Lin SJ, Agag RL,
                                                  Thomas AJ. Automated lateral ventricular and
Mendelian randomization and phenome-                                                               Lee BT. Assessment of opioid-prescribing
                                                  cranial vault volume measurements in 13,851
wide association study. Obesity                                                                    practices in breast augmentation: Future
                                                  subjects utilizing deep learning algorithms.
2021;29(3):610-5.                                                                                  directions for prescribing guidelines. Ann
                                                  World Neurosurg 2021;148:e363-73.
                                                                                                   Plast Surg 2021;86(1):11-8.
Jones DB, Abu-Nuwar MRA, Ku CM, Berk LS,
                                                  Salem MM, Maragkos GA, Gomez-Paz S,
Trainor LS, Jones SB. Less pain and earlier                                                        Del Valle DD, Pardo JA, Maselli AM, Valero
                                                  Ascanio LC, Ngo LH, Ogilvy CS, Thomas AJ,
discharge after implementation of a                                                                MG, Fan B, Seyidova N, James TA, Lee BT.
                                                  Moore JM. Trends of ruptured and
multidisciplinary enhanced recovery after                                                          Evaluation of online Spanish and English
                                                  unruptured aneurysms treatment in the
surgery (ERAS) protocol for laparoscopic                                                           health materials for preventive mastectomy.
                                                  United States in Post-ISAT era: A national
sleeve gastrectomy. Surg Endosc                                                                    Are we providing adequate information?
                                                  inpatient sample analysis. J Am Heart Assoc
2020;34(12):5574-82.                                                                               Breast Cancer Res Treat 2021; in press.
                                                  2021;10(4):e016998.
Cardiac Surgery                                                                                    Granoff MD, Pardo J, Singhal D. Power-
                                                  Stippler M, Keith S, Nelton EB, Parsons CS,
                                                                                                   assisted liposuction: An important tool in
Vervoort D, Premkumar A, Ghandour H,              Singleton J, Bilello LA, Tibbles CD, Davis RB,
                                                                                                   the surgical management of lymphedema
Kpodonu J. Health system needs to establish       Edlow JA, Rosen CL. Pathway-based
                                                                                                   patients. Lymphat Res Biol 2021;19(1):20-2.
cardiac surgery centers. Thorac Cardiovasc        reduction of repeat head computed
Surg 2021; in press.                              tomography for patients with complicated         Johnson AR, Fleishman A, Granoff MD,
                                                  mild traumatic brain injury: Implementation      Shillue K, Houlihan MJ, Sharma R, Kansal KJ,
                                                  and outcomes. Neurosurgery
Colon and Rectal Surgery                                                                           Teller P, James TA, Lee BT, Singhal D.
                                                  2021;88(4):773-8.                                Evaluating the impact of immediate
Kulaylat AN, Kulaylat AS, Schaefer EW, Mirkin
                                                                                                   lymphatic reconstruction for the surgical
K, Tinsley A, Williams E, Koltun WA,              Ophthalmology                                    prevention of lymphedema. Plast Reconstr
Hollenbeak CS, Messaris E. The impact
                                                  Arroyo JG, Seto B, Yamada K, Zeng K,             Surg 2021;147(3):373e-81e.
of preoperative anti-TNFα therapy
on postoperative outcomes following               Minturn R, Lemire CA. Rapid reduction
                                                                                                   Kim G, Johnson AR, Hamaguchi R,
ileocolectomy in Crohn’s disease. J               of macular edema due to retinal vein
                                                                                                   Adondakis M, Tsai LL, Singhal D. Breast
Gastrointest Surg 2021;25(2):467-74.              occlusion with low-dose normobaric
                                                                                                   cancer-related lymphedema: Magnetic
                                                  hyperoxia. Graefes Arch Clin Exp
                                                                                                   resonance imaging evidence of sparing
Storino A, Wong D, Ore AS, Gaytan-Fuentes         Ophthalmol 2021; in press.
                                                                                                   centered along the cephalic vein. J Reconstr
IA, Fabrizio A, Cataldo T, Messaris E.
                                                  North VS, Reshef ER, Lee NG, Lefebvre DR,        Microsurg 2021; in press.
Recurrence and survival of neuroendocrine
neoplasms of the rectum: Single-center            Freitag SK, Yoon MK. Lower eyelid
experience. J Gastrointest Surg 2020; in press.   malposition following repair of complex
                                                  orbitofacial trauma. Orbit 2020;22:1-6.
Faculty names are in bold within their primary division or center; trainee names are in italics.

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The Department of Surgery congratulates the following faculty members on their recent
Harvard Medical School promotions or appointments.

PROMOTED TO: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SURGERY

                  Ryan P. Cauley, MD, MPH                             Dr. Cauley’s clinical focus is complex reconstructive
                  Dr. Cauley, who joined the faculty in 2020,    surgery of the head and neck, breast, thorax, and lower
                  is a member of the Division of Plastic         extremity; the treatment of facial trauma; wound and burn
                  and Reconstructive Surgery. He is board        management; and gender-affirmation surgery. In addition,
                  certified in both plastic and reconstructive   he is a key member of the new BIDMC Multidisciplinary
                  surgery and surgical critical care.            Wound Care Clinic.
                       Dr. Cauley received his medical                Dr. Cauley’s research interests encompass health
                  degree from Weill Cornell Medicine,            services, wound and burn surgery, microsurgical outcomes,
graduating Alpha Omega Alpha, and completed his plastic          and the optimization of surgical care in patients at high
surgery residency in the Harvard Combined Plastic Surgery        risk of wound complications. He also conducts research
Residency Program. He later pursued clinical fellowships in      of patient-reported outcome measures in the assessment
acute burn surgery and reconstruction at Massachusetts           of surgical efficacy and cost effectiveness. Dr. Cauley’s
General Hospital, surgical critical care at Brigham and          scholarship is reflected in 27 peer-reviewed publications,
Women’s Hospital, and microsurgery at BIDMC. Dr. Cauley          and he serves as a reviewer for the Journal of
also earned a master of public health degree from Harvard        Reconstructive Microsurgery.
T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

APPOINTED AS: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SURGERY
                  Kristen T. Crowell, MD                         she investigated sepsis in the murine model. In addition,
                   Dr. Crowell joined the Division of Colon      Dr. Crowell has led multiple clinical studies, including an
                   and Rectal Surgery in 2020, following         investigation of the compliance and efficacy of C. difficile
                   the completion of a clinical fellowship       infection treatment guidelines. Her findings have been
                   in colorectal surgery at Cleveland Clinic     published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at
                   Foundation. Dr. Crowell’s clinical focus      national meetings.
                   is colorectal cancer and inflammatory              Dr. Crowell’s scholarship is reflected in 23 publications,
                   bowel disease (IBD).                          including 16 peer-reviewed papers, and she has co-authored
     Dr. Crowell earned her medical degree from the              six book chapters. A committed educator, Dr. Crowell wrote
University of Texas Medical Branch and completed her             an educational module on colostomy and colostomy closure
residency in general surgery at Penn State Milton S.             for the Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE)
Hershey Medical Center. During her residency, Dr. Crowell        curriculum that is used nationally by surgery residents
spent two years conducting research in the Department            studying for exams. Dr. Crowell is also an active member
of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Penn State, where        of several national professional societies.

PROMOTED TO: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SURGERY
                  Arriyan Samandar (Sammy)                             Dr. Dowlatshahi received his medical degree from
                  Dowlatshahi, MD                                Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany. He
                Dr. Dowlatshahi is a plastic surgeon with        completed an integrated plastic surgery residency at the
                added qualification in hand surgery.             University of Massachusetts, and a fellowship in hand and
                He joined BIDMC in 2017 and holds a              microsurgery at BIDMC.
                dual appointment in the Department                     Dr. Dowlatshahi’s clinical expertise is in hand surgery
                of Surgery (Division of Plastic and              and complex reconstructive surgery and microsurgery with
                Reconstructive Surgery) and the                  a focus on orthoplastic surgery, which combines principles
Department of Orthopedic Surgery (Division of Hand               from plastic surgery and orthopedic surgery to treat
and Upper Extremity Surgery).                                    difficult musculoskeletal conditions involving bone, nerve,

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vasculature, and soft tissue. Dr. Dowlatshahi is                          Dr. Dowlatshahi’s scholarship is reflected in 19 publications,
Director of the BIDMC Orthoplastic and Reconstructive                and he has authored or co-authored five book chapters. He is
Microsurgery Program.                                                a core faculty member of the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic
     Among other accomplishments, Dr. Dowlatshahi has                Residency Program, the BIDMC Plastic and Reconstructive
increased the volume and sophistication of microsurgical             Surgery Residency Program, the BIDMC Hand Surgery
reconstructions at BIDMC, including using a technique known          Fellowship, and the BIDMC Microsurgery Fellowship. He also
as super-microsurgery, which involves operating on vessels           serves as BID-Milton Site Director for BIDMC’s Plastic and
and nerves with a diameter of 0.7 mm or smaller.                     Reconstructive Surgery Residency Program.

APPOINTED AS: PROFESSOR OF SURGERY
                   Devin Eckhoff, MD                                 clinical/research fellowship in transplant surgery, also at the
                   Dr. Eckhoff is Chief of Transplant Surgery        University of Wisconsin-Madison.
                   and Director of the Transplant Institute at             Dr. Eckhoff’s major research interests have been focused
                   BIDMC. Dr. Eckhoff was recruited to BIDMC         on xenotransplantation and expanding the supply of organs
                   in 2020 from the University of Alabama            for transplantation. His work has investigated transplanting
                   (UAB) at Birmingham, where he was                 genetically modified kidneys from pigs to humans, thereby
                   Professor of Surgery and held the Arnold          expanding the supply of organs for transplantation. Dr. Eckhoff’s
                   G. Diethelm Endowed Chair in                      research has been supported by the National Institutes of
Transplantation Surgery. Among many other leadership                 Health and industry, and is reflected in more than 150 published
roles at UAB, Dr. Eckhoff was Director of the Division of            peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters.
Transplantation for 17 years.                                              A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the
     Dr. Eckhoff received his medical degree from the                American Surgical Association, and the American Society
University of Minnesota, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha.               of Transplantation, Dr. Eckhoff is frequently invited to speak
Following the completion of his residency in general surgery         nationally and internationally, and serves on the Council of the
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Eckhoff pursued          American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
a research fellowship in transplantation and subsequently a

PROMOTED TO: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY
                   James Naples, MD                                  at BIDMC that integrates many of the services needed to
                    Dr. Naples, a neurotologist who specializes      manage patients with complex dizziness/vertigo.
                    in disorders of the ear and skull base, joined        Dr. Naples has diverse research interests that include
                    the Division of Otolaryngology/Head and          hearing loss due to cisplatin-induced ototoxicity and the
                    Neck Surgery in 2019.                            history of medicine. He currently serves on the History
                         Dr. Naples earned his medical degree        and Archives Committee of the American Academy of
                    from the University of Connecticut School        Otolaryngology, and his research efforts are reflected in 43
                    of Medicine, completed his residency in          peer-reviewed publications.
otolaryngology at the University of Connecticut, and pursued              With a longstanding interest in education, Dr. Naples
a fellowship in otology/neurotology (ear diseases) at the            serves as an Associate Program Director of the Otolaryngology/
University of Pennsylvania.                                          Head and Neck Surgery Residency at BIDMC/Harvard
     Dr. Naples’s clinical interests include hearing loss and        Medical School, and also serves on the Otology and
cochlear implants, skull base surgery, acoustic neuroma,             Neurotology Education Committee of the American Academy
and Meniere’s disease. He established a novel “Dizzy Clinic”         of Otolaryngology.

PROMOTED TO: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SURGERY
                   Heidi Rayala, MD, PhD                             from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
                   Dr. Rayala is a member of the Division of         She completed an internship in surgery at Brigham and
                   Urologic Surgery who was recruited to the         Women’s Hospital, a residency in urologic surgery at the
                   Department of Surgery in 2020 following           Harvard Program in Urology (Longwood Area), and a
                   ten years at Cambridge Health Alliance            fellowship in urologic oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering
                   (CHA). At CHA, Dr. Rayala held numerous           Cancer Center.
                   leadership positions, including Chair of the           Dr. Rayala is dedicated to teaching and serves as the
                   Cancer Committee, where she led many              supervising attending for the resident-run Genitourinary Clinic,
quality-improvement projects focused on improving cancer             which provides care to underserved patients. She is also course
care for the underserved.                                            instructor for the Harvard Medical School Practice of Medicine
    Dr. Rayala’s clinical interests include prostate cancer,         Introduction to the GU exam, and co-directs the Harvard
bladder cancer, kidney stone disease, erectile dysfunction,          Medical School Introduction to Suturing workshop. In addition,
recurrent urinary tract infections, benign prostatic hypertrophy,    Dr. Rayala serves as a member of the Harvard Medical School
and male and female urinary incontinence.                            Admissions Committee.
    Dr. Rayala received her medical and doctoral degrees
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Prathima Nandivada, MD, 2018
Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

A     lthough she trained and performed for
      many years as a classical vocalist, Prathima
Nandivada, MD, never seriously considered a
professional singing career. Instead, from a very
young age her sights were always set on becoming
a doctor.
     After graduating from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Dr. Nandivada attended Renaissance
                                                        can often reconstruct the anatomy to give these
School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, fully
                                                        children a normal life,” she says, noting that she
intending to become an academic pediatrician.
                                                        will find great satisfaction following these patients
But she changed course following a sub-internship
                                                        throughout their childhood.
in vascular surgery at BIDMC, deciding to pursue
                                                             Dr. Nandivada continues to conduct research,
a career as a surgeon-scientist in vascular surgery.
                                                        aiming to divide her time equally between patient
“My top residency choice was BIDMC, largely
                                                        care and basic and clinical research. Her basic
because of its clinical and research strengths
                                                        research, under the mentorship of Jerrold Turner,
in vascular surgery,” says Dr. Nandivada, who
                                                        MD, PhD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is
graduated from medical school Alpha Omega Alpha.
                                                        focusing on the biology of tight junctions in the
     It was during her clinical rotation at Boston
                                                        developing gastrointestinal tract and their role in
Children’s Hospital (BCH), however, that
                                                        pediatric diseases such as necrotizing enterocolitis
Dr. Nandivada’s previous dream of working with
                                                        and Hirschsprung disease. She will also participate
children was rekindled. It was further fueled by
                                                        in clinical research projects through the Colorectal
her three-year research elective at BCH with
                                                        and Pelvic Malformation Center under the
BIDMC alumnus Mark Puder, MD, PhD, a pediatric
                                                        mentorship of its director, Belinda Dickie, MD, PhD.
surgeon-scientist whose translational research
                                                             As much as she loves patient care and research,
led to a lifesaving treatment for children with liver
                                                        Dr. Nandivada’s favorite roles are teacher and
disease resulting from long-term intravenous
                                                        mentor, for which she has received numerous
(parenteral) nutrition. “Dr. Puder has been an
                                                        teaching awards. She finds it rewarding to educate
influential role model who prepared me for a career
                                                        parents about their child’s condition and to teach
as a surgeon-scientist,” says Dr. Nandivada.
                                                        residents, including those from BIDMC, in the OR,
     After graduating from residency in 2018,
                                                        clinic, or research setting.
Dr. Nandivada—now confident she had found the
                                                             Dr. Nandivada also enjoys being a mentor and
right career path—completed a two-year fellowship
                                                        role model to trainees who seek her advice about
in pediatric surgery at BCH, where she is now an
                                                        how to balance a career as a surgeon-scientist with
attending surgeon. “I came full circle and am now
                                                        parenthood. “I tell them that in addition to having a
doing what I dreamed about as a child—caring for
                                                        supportive partner, a supportive residency program
children and their families,” says Dr. Nandivada.
                                                        is critically important,” says Dr. Nandivada, who has
     While she provides the full range of pediatric
                                                        a five-year-old son. “I am grateful to the BIDMC
general surgery, as a member of the Colorectal
                                                        residency program not only for the excellent training
and Pelvic Malformation Center Dr. Nandivada
                                                        I received, but also for the support of so many
has a particular clinical focus on the treatment
                                                        outstanding faculty throughout my residency
of anorectal malformations. “Over the course of
                                                        and beyond.”
several operations performed during infancy, we

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New Faculty
For more information about our new faculty, including their clinical and research interests, practice sites,
and contact information, please visit the “Find-A-Doctor” section on the BIDMC website.

ACUTE CARE SURGERY, TRAUMA,                                PODIATRIC SURGERY
AND SURGICAL CRITICAL CARE                                                     John “JT” Marcoux, DPM
                  Anupamaa (Anu) Seshadri, MD                                  Medical School: Temple University
                  Medical School: University of                                School of Podiatric Medicine
                  Maryland School of Medicine                                  Residency: Podiatric Medicine and
                  Residency: General Surgery,                                  Surgery, Presbyterian Medical Center,
                  Brigham and Women’s Hospital                                 UPenn Health System
                  Fellowship: Surgical Critical
                  Care, Trauma, and Acute Care
                  Surgery, University of Pittsburgh        SURGICAL ONCOLOGY
                  Medical Center                                               Stephanie Serres, MD, PhD
                                                                               Medical School: University of Texas
OPHTHALMOLOGY                                                                  Southwestern Medical School
                  Alisa Prager, MD, MPH                                        Residency: General Surgery, Beth
                                                                               Israel Deaconess Medical Center
                  Medical School: Columbia University
                                                                               Fellowship: Breast Surgical Oncology,
                  College of Physicians and Surgeons
                                                                               Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
                  Residency: Ophthalmology,
                  Northwestern University
                  Fellowship: Glaucoma,                    THORACIC SURGERY AND INTERVENTIONAL
                  Northwestern University                  PULMONOLOGY
                                                                               Chenchen Zhang, MD, PhD
                  Joseph (Jamie) Raevis, MD
                                                                              Medical School: Xiangya School
                  Medical School: Georgetown
                                                                              of Medicine, Central South
                  University School of Medicine
                                                                              University (China)
                  Residency: Ophthalmology, State
                                                                              Residency: Internal Medicine,
                  University of New York Downstate
                                                                              Norwalk Hospital/Yale School
                  Fellowship: Vitreoretinal, University
                                                                              of Medicine
                  of Wisconsin-Madison
                                                                              Fellowships: Interventional
                                                           Pulmonology, University of Pennsylvania; Pulmonary
OTOLARYNGOLOGY/                                            Medicine and Critical Care, Saint Louis University Hospital
HEAD AND NECK SURGERY
                  Christopher Brook, MD                    UROLOGIC SURGERY
                  Medical School: Albany                                       Marissa Kent, MD
                  Medical College                                              Medical School: Tufts University
                  Residency: Otolaryngology, Boston                            School of Medicine
                  Medical Center                                               Residency: Urology, Mount
                  Fellowship: Rhinology and Anterior                           Sinai Hospital
                  Skull Base Surgery, Massachusetts                            Fellowship: Prosthetic Surgery,
                  Eye and Ear Infirmary                                        Reconstructive and Transgender
                                                                               Urology, Mount Sinai Hospital
PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
                  Ashley Nadia Boustany, MD                VASCULAR AND ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY
                  Medical School: West Virginia                                Patric Liang, MD
                  University School of Medicine                                Medical School: Albert Einstein
                  Residency: Plastic and Reconstructive                        College of Medicine
                  Surgery, University of Kentucky School                       Residency: Vascular Surgery, Beth
                  of Medicine                                                  Israel Deaconess Medical Center
                  Fellowship: Aesthetic and                                    Fellowship: Harvard-Longwood
                  Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, Beth                         Research Fellowship
                  Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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NE W S B R IE FS
                                                                              Asish Misra, MD, PhD, a 2021
                                                                              General Surgery Residency
                                                                              Program graduate who will be
                                                                              pursuing his fellowship in transplant
                                                                              surgery at Keck School of Medicine
                                                                              of USC, was awarded a $100,000
                                                                              fellowship training grant from the
                                                                              OneLegacy Foundation in April.
                                                         Dr. Misra’s project, “Nanostructured Mass Exchanger
                                                         for Hepatic Replacement Therapy,” will apply his
                                                         microfluidics/nanoparticle expertise toward the goal
                                                         of developing a bioartificial liver. Dr. Misra will be
   Harvard Medical School selected the                   collaborating on this project with Juliet Emamaullee,
   Department of Surgery for the 2021 Harold             MD, PhD, an abdominal organ transplant surgeon in
   Amos Faculty Diversity Group Award, which was         the Department of Surgery at Keck School of Medicine
   established to recognize and celebrate those who      of USC. The OneLegacy Foundation supports the
   have made significant achievements in moving          mission of OneLegacy, the nation’s largest organ,
   the medical school toward being a diverse and         eye, and tissue recovery organization.
   inclusive community.
        The department’s Diversity, Equity, and
                                                                              Michael Yaffe, MD, PhD, Acute
   Inclusion (DEI) Committee, formerly chaired
                                                                              Care Surgery, Trauma, and
   by Sidhu Gangadharan, MD, MHCM, Chief of
                                                                              Surgical Critical Care, was named
   Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology,                           a Margaret MacVicar Faculty
   and now chaired by Anne Fabrizio, MD, Colon                                Fellow by Massachusetts Institute
   and Rectal Surgery, continues the longtime work of                         of Technology (MIT), where he
   Department of Surgery faculty, staff, trainees, and                        is the David H. Koch Professor of
   researchers to create a diverse community that is                          Biology and Biological Engineering
   equitable and welcoming to all. “This has always      and Director of the MIT Center for Precision Cancer
   been a critically important area of focus for our     Medicine. Dr. Yaffe also holds an appointment
   community, and we are truly honored to have our       in the Division of Surgical Oncology in the BIDMC
   achievements recognized with this award,” said        Department of Surgery.
   Surgery Chair Elliot Chaikof, MD, PhD.                     The MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program
        A virtual ceremony hosted by Harvard             recognizes exemplary and sustained contributions
   Medical School to acknowledge and celebrate           to undergraduate education at MIT. The 2021 fellows
   the recipients of the 2021 Harold Amos                join an elite group of scholars from across MIT who
   Faculty Diversity Group Award was held in April.      are committed to curricular innovation, scientific
                                                         research, and improving the student experience
                                                         through teaching, mentoring, and advising.
                                                              In addition, Dr. Yaffe was elected to the Association
                   Jacques Kpodonu, MD, Cardiac          of American Physicians (AAP), an honorary medical
                   Surgery, was a moderator              society founded in 1885 for “the advancement of
                   of an inaugural webinar on            scientific and practical medicine.” Election to the AAP,
                   congenital and pediatric heart        which is limited to 70 per year, is an honor extended
                   surgery in Africa. The program        to physicians with outstanding credentials in basic
                   was sponsored by the African          or translational biomedical research.
                   University for Thoracic and
                   Cardiovascular Surgery, which
promotes the development of cardiothoracic and
vascular surgery in Africa via virtual lectures and
educational webinars. Dr. Kpodonu presents and
publishes frequently about global health disparities
in cardiothoracic surgery.

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                                 Three dozen members of the Department of Surgery were named “Top
                                 Doctors” in the January 2021 issue of Boston Magazine:
                                 Drs. Jeffrey Arle, Mark Callery, David Caradonna, Thomas Cataldo, Elliot
                                 Chaikof, Peter Chang, Joseph Ciccone, Anurag Das, Lisa Ferzoco, Sidhu
                                 Gangadharan, Allen Hamdan, William Innis, Scharukh Jalisi, Ted James,
                                 Daniel Jones, Kamal Khabbaz, Ernest Kornmehl, Mark Kuperwaser,
                                 Stephen Lazarou, Bernard Lee, Samuel Lin, David Liu, Adnan Majid,
                                 Leonard Miller, Abraham Morgentaler, Donald Morris, A. James Moser,
                                 Christopher Ogilvy, Aria Olumi, Heidi Rayala, Marc Schermerhorn, Terri
                                 Silver, Sumner Slavin, Ajith Thomas, Andrew Wagner, Mark Wyers, and
                                 Richard Whyte.

                  Seema Anandalwar, MD (top), and                            Residents Sharif Sabe, MD, and
                  Chun Li, MD, MPH, were selected as                         Betty Liu, MD, each received a 2021
                  Administrative Chief Residents of the                      Resident Research Award from the
                  General Surgery Residency                                  Thoracic Surgery Foundation, the
                  Program for the 2021-2022                                  charitable arm of the Society of
                  academic year. They were selected                          Thoracic Surgeons. The highly
                  for this honor by their peers and                          competitive awards provide two
                  approved by faculty because of                             years of financial support for
                  their dedication to the residency,                         surgical trainees seeking to acquire
                  leadership, and commitment                                 investigational skills. Dr. Sabe’s
                  to the education and well-being                            project is “The Impact of Glycemic
                  of all residents.                                          Control on Extracellular Vesicle-
                                                                             Mediated Angiogenesis in a Porcine
                                                                             Model of Chronic Myocardial
                                                                             Ischemia and Metabolic Syndrome.”
                                                                             Dr. Liu’s project is “Accelerating
                                                          Wound Healing of Mesothelial Injuries Using a Bio-
                  The journal Plastic and                 Derived Interface with the Heart and Lungs.”
                  Reconstructive Surgery named
                  Samuel Lin, MD, MBA, Plastic and
                  Reconstructive Surgery, to its                             Joseph Ogbonna, MPH, was
                  “Reviewer Hall of Fame” for having                         promoted to Director of Quality
                  reviewed between 700-799 articles                          Programs in the Department of
                  for the journal since 2004. Dr. Lin                        Surgery. In this role, Mr. Ogbonna
                  serves on the journal’s editorial                          leads the planning, facilitation,
board and is the outcomes section editor.                                    and implementation of quality-
                                                                             improvement, patient-safety,
                                                                             and clinical-effectiveness projects
Each year, the Department of Surgery and the Clinton      throughout the department and its specialty divisions.
and Joseph Koufman Foundation award educational           After working in quality and safety management
grants to four surgical nursing professionals with        at Tufts Medical Center, Mr. Ogbonna joined the
prominent leadership potential who also demonstrate       department as Senior Quality Improvement Project
humanism and excellence in patient care. The              Manager in 2015. Mr. Ogbonna graduated cum laude
recipients of this year’s Clinton and Joseph Koufman      from American University of Nigeria with a full-tuition,
Foundation Awards for Excellence are: Brianna             merit-based scholarship, and later earned a Master
Nadeau, BSN, RN, perioperative services; William          of Public Health degree from Tufts University.
Entwistle, BSN, RN, inpatient services; Sharon Kaden,
PA-C, Cardiac Surgery; and Elizabeth Tillotson, RN,
MSN, NP-C, ambulatory surgical care. Runners-up are:
Alyssa Kuba, MSN, NP-BC, and Alec Spooner, BSN, RN,
both of inpatient services.

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                    Cardiothoracic Surgery fellow                           Resident Jordan Broekhuis, MD,
                    (thoracic track) and General                            who is completing his research
                    Surgery Residency Program                               elective under the mentorship of
                    alumnus Christopher Digesu, MD,                         Benjamin James, MD, MS, was
                    was selected for the American                           selected to serve on the Association
                    Association for Thoracic Surgery                        for Academic Surgery’s (AAS)
                    (AATS) Leadership Academy,                              Membership Committee. The
                    which this year focuses on a                            mission of the AAS, which has more
diversity perspective. Through an intensive, didactic,      than 4,000 members, is to inspire and develop young
and interactive program, the AATS Leadership                academic surgeons.
Academy provides participants with administrative,
interpersonal, and mentoring skills needed
to succeed as academic cardiothoracic surgeons.

                    Resident Daniel Cloonan, MD,
                    was selected to serve on the
                    American Society of Transplant
                    Surgeons (ASTS) Pipeline
                    Taskforce. The taskforce focuses
                    on recruiting trainees to the
                    field of transplant surgery by
                    establishing programming in
career development, mentorship, and diversity.              Ruslan Korets, MD (right), Urologic Surgery, was
Dr. Cloonan also serves on the Trainee Advisory             nominated for the 2021 American Urological Association
Board, which is the first and only exclusively trainee      (AUA) Residents and Fellows Committee Teaching
group within the ASTS. This group works to guide            Award for his dedication to teaching and outstanding
ASTS programming from the medical student, resident,        professional accomplishments. “We are grateful for
and fellow perspective. Dr. Cloonan is completing           Dr. Korets’s commitment to education and for providing
his research elective in the Center for Transplantation     an innovative learning environment for our trainees,”
Sciences at Massachusetts General Hospital.                 says Urologic Surgery Chief Aria Olumi, MD.

 Dhruv Singhal, MD, Plastic and                                               With this information, surgeons
 Reconstructive Surgery, received                                             could predict which variations
 an R01 grant from the National                                               predispose breast cancer patients
 Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute                                             to develop lymphedema, an
 of the National Institutes of Health.                                        incurable, painful, and potentially
 Dr. Singhal is Co-director of                                                life-threatening condition that
 the Boston Lymphatic Center, a                                               affects 1.2 million patients in the
 joint program between BIDMC                                                  United States. Later, Dr. Singhal
 and Boston Children’s Hospital.                                              plans to develop a novel method
 The grant will fund Dr. Singhal’s                                            of noninvasive intraoperative
 research project entitled                                                    optical imaging to assess
 “Mapping and Quantifying                involved in lymphatic drainage       the function of this pathway
 Lymphatic Drainage of the               from the arm. They will map its      during breast cancer surgery
 Arm’s Alternate Pathway.”               variations in both healthy women     to predict a patient’s risk of
      Employing imaging                  and those who have undergone         developing lymphedema and, if
 techniques, Dr. Singhal and             breast cancer treatment that puts    warranted, implement preventive
 his team will aim to define the         them at high risk for lymphedema     interventions.
 anatomy of an alternate pathway         but did not develop the condition.

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