Adam Kibel, MD, was elected secretary Faina Nakhlis, MD, was named Jennifer Shin, MD, SM, was the of the Society of Urologic Oncology associate director of the Dana-Farber invited lecturer for the Robert J. Toohill (SUO); and was the Caulk Visiting Cancer Institute Inflammatory Breast Lectureship at the Medical College Professor at Washington University Cancer Program. of Wisconsin and the Robert Ruben in St. Louis. Lectureship at Albert Einstein College of Stephanie Nitzschke, MD, presented Medicine; and was awarded the Inaugural Sayeed K. Malek, MD, was appointed grand rounds at the University of Outstanding Citizenship Award from the to serve on the New England Organ Massachusetts and Boston MedFlight. Brigham Department of Surgery. Bank Clinical Policy Board of the New England Donor Services (NEDS); was Dennis P. Orgill, MD, PhD, was a Indranil Sinha, MD, joined the editorial appointed to the Cellular Transplantation Plastic Surgery Foundation (PSF) visiting board of Current Regenerative Medicine; Committee of the American Society of professor; was selected program chair of was a visiting assistant professor to Transplant Surgeons (ASTS); was named the American Society of Plastic Surgeons the University of Michigan; was named interim chief of Transplant Surgery (ASPS) Annual Meeting; was appointed to a National Institute on Aging Pepper at Boston Medical Center; and was a the Wound Healing Society (WHS) Board Centers Visiting Scholar to the University visiting professor at hospitals in Xi’an and of Directors; and was appointed to the of Connecticut and the Barshop Institute; Changsha, China. Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation and filed a patent for an invention that Board of Directors. prints muscle scaffolds directly onto Hari R. Mallidi, MD, was appointed the injury sites. 2020 cardiac track chair and the section Erika Rangel, MD, MS, was awarded editor for Special Topics for the American the BWH Department of Surgery Junior Doug Smink, MD, MPH, was named Society for Artificial Internal Organs Fellowship in honor of Robert T. Osteen president-elect of the Association of (ASAIO). Award from the Harvard Medical Program Directors in Surgery (APDS); and School Eleanor and Miles Shore Faculty was awarded the Mass General Brigham M. Blair Marshall, MD, was named Development Awards Program (Shore Champion of Education Award. the associate chief of Quality and Safety Program). for the Division of Thoracic Surgery; Ali Tavakkoli, MD, was nominated was named the Michael A. Bell Family Chandrajit P. Raut, MD, MSc, was president-elect of the Massachusetts Distinguished Chair in Healthcare appointed chair of the Society of Surgical Chapter of the American College of Innovation at the Brigham; and was Oncology (SSO) Local Arrangements Surgeons (MCACS). named editor-in-chief of Operative Committee. Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Stefan G. Tullius, MD, PhD, Surgery. Robert Riviello, MD, MPH, was received the Excellence in Kidney awarded the Inaugural Outstanding Transplantation Award from the Christina Minami, MD, MFA, MS, Citizenship Award from the Brigham National Kidney Foundation (NKF); was awarded the American Society of Department of Surgery; and presented received the Outstanding Achievement Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Endowed Young the keynote address on Innovations Transplantation Science (Basic) Award Investigator Award in Geriatric Oncology; in Global Surgery at the 2019 Harvard from The Transplantation Society (TTS); and received an American College Medical School John Warren Surgical and was the senior author on the of Surgeons (ACS) Faculty Research Society Banquet. abstract that won the People’s Choice Fellowship Award. Award at the 2020 American Transplant Ali Salim, MD, was elected to the Mass Congress (ATC). Elizabeth Mittendorf, MD, PhD, was General Brigham Board of Directors; was named co-leader of the Breast Cancer selected as a board member of Boston Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD, was Program for the Dana-Farber/Harvard MedFlight; was appointed as the critical selected to serve as the American Cancer Center; and was appointed care lead for the Brigham inpatient Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Head chair of the American Society of Clinical Recover & Reimagination; and presented and Neck Cancer Scientific Program track Oncology (ASCO) and the Society for grand rounds at Cedars-Sinai Medical leader. Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Annual Center and Georgetown University as Meeting. part of the Functional Outcomes and Jon O. Wee, MD, was elected to the Recovery after Trauma Emergencies editorial board of Current Challenges in Matthew Mossanen, MD, MPH, was (FORTE) project. Thoracic Surgery. awarded the New Discoveries Research Young Investigator Award for Patient Marcus Semel, MD, MPH, was selected Anna Weiss, MD, served as the chair Centered Clinical Research from the to participate in the Society for Vascular of the Society of Surgical Oncology Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Surgery (SVS) Leadership Development (SSO) Fellows and Young Attendings (BCAN). Program. Subcommittee. Melissa M. Murphy, MD, MPH, was Eric Sheu, MD, PhD, received the named chief of Surgery at Kent Hospital. 2020 Foundation Fellowship from the American Surgical Association (ASA). BWH DOS 51
Development A gift with immediate, life-saving impact This past spring, David Canepari, a patient, benefactor and volunteer leader at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was inspired to give after hearing about the power of a specialized life support machine and what it can do for patients. A member of the Lung Center Advisory Board, Canepari learned about the hospital’s need for additional machines called ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) from Lung Center co- directors, Raphael Bueno, MD, and Bruce Levy, MD. Eager to help the Brigham expand its impact on patients and families, Canepari and his wife, Diane, pledged $300,000.“ECMO takes over the work of a patient’s lungs and heart temporarily,” Dr. Bueno said. “This crucial technology enables patients with severe lung or heart damage to survive until they can recover. It’s a bridge therapy for people who are waiting for lung transplants, as well as for patients with pneumonia, severe respiratory infections and heart failure.” Canepari was impressed to learn the machine can sustain a patient’s life for days or weeks. “Both Dr. Bueno and Dr. Levy emphasized that the Brigham needs to expand the number of ECMO machines because they save lives,” he said. The Caneparis began giving to the Brigham in 2017 in gratitude for the care David received from Dr. Bueno. Their philanthropy has supported a comprehensive lung screening program, the thoracic surgery fellowship program and research within the Lung Center. “While research is important, it can take years to realize the benefits,” Canepari said. “With ECMO, the impact on saving lives is immediate. This means so much to me.” “We are incredibly grateful to David and Diane for their generous gift. The ultimate beneficiaries of this philanthropy are the patients who will get another chance to survive, recover and resume their lives,” Dr. Bueno said. 52 BWH DOS
Logues’ philanthropy champions thoracic surgery When Jim Logue’s mother, Sue, of their philanthropic priorities for the developed lung cancer in 1999, her past two decades. Recently, they gave local pulmonologist in Pennsylvania $150,000 to support thoracic surgery recommended she seek a second opinion fellow training under Dr. Swanson’s from a hospital with more experience direction. They also joined the hospital’s handling very complex cases. A colleague Lung Center Advisory Board. encouraged Logue to contact Scott Swanson, MD, director of Minimally “Jim and Marie generously give of Invasive Thoracic Surgery at Brigham and themselves to enhance the training Women’s Hospital. and care we provide,” Dr. Swanson said. “I’m tremendously grateful for their “Dr. Swanson told us the Brigham’s thoughtfulness and friendship.” advanced surgical techniques gave him reason to be optimistic, and he operated “We live outside Philadelphia, near a few weeks later,” Logue remembered. some of the best health care institutions “My mom lived 10 more years—the in the world—yet we will always go to best decade of her life. She traveled, the Brigham for care. Our friends and played golf and spent time with her family have approached the Brigham grandchildren. He made that possible.” for complex medical needs, and the answer has always been, ‘yes.’ How do In gratitude and with deep respect you put a price on that? The return is for Dr. Swanson’s life-changing care, immeasurable,” Marie Logue said. the Logues have made the Brigham one Matchetts’ gift advances breast cancer therapies Boston area native Rebecca Matchett recalls loved ones regularly turning to Brigham and Women’s Hospital throughout the years— especially her mother, who received treatment for breast cancer and leukemia. “When my sister and I learned of our inherited breast cancer gene mutation, we both went to the Brigham for preventive mastectomies,” Matchett said. “I was living in New York City by then, but there’s nowhere else I would want to go.” It was Mehra Golshan, MD, MBA, the former Dr. Abdul Mohsen and Sultana Al-Tuwaijri Distinguished Chair in Surgical Oncology at the Brigham, who performed the sisters’ mastectomies—and who later oversaw Matchett’s surgical care when she developed breast cancer. In gratitude for her care, Matchett and her husband, Chris, recently committed $150,000 to the Brigham to propel breast cancer research. Their gift will advance investigations of therapeutic approaches, including elective mastectomies to reduce breast cancer risk and how these approaches affect patients’ lives in the following years. “I have many world-class hospitals a stone’s throw from home, so it’s a real testament for someone from New York City to keep going back to the Brigham,” Matchett, who also serves on the hospital’s Cancer Research and Care Advisory Board, said. “Chris and I are so happy to support the hospital’s amazing work.” BWH DOS 53
Satters spark robotic approach Support the Work to cancer surgery of the Department of Surgery Two years ago, after doctors in Florida diagnosed Susan Satter’s Each year, thousands of people entrust father with pancreatic cancer, they the Department of Surgery at Brigham determined the best chance of Health to provide them with excellent prolonging his life was to perform a medical care. Many turn to us because complex operation called a Whipple of our long history of medical firsts procedure. During this risky surgery, and reputation for attracting the doctors remove the gall bladder finest surgical trainees and surgeons and bile duct, along with cancerous in the country. One of the reasons portions of the pancreas, small we have been able to build such a intestine and sometimes a portion of strong program—and to establish new the stomach. standards of surgical care—is because of philanthropic contributions from people Satter and her husband, Stewart, like you. patients and benefactors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, recently Gifts from our alumni, patients and learned about the hospital’s plans to friends help us to train our staff in the develop a robotic, minimally invasive latest surgical techniques, to make Whipple procedure that could offer advances in surgery through research faster recovery with better results. and to achieve the best possible Knowing what a difference this could outcomes for patients. When you make make for patients like Satter’s father, a gift to the Department of Surgery, they contributed $1.25 million to establish the Susan and Stewart Satter you enable our medical team to provide Robotic Whipple Surgery Program. Their gift will help the Brigham develop a the most advanced care and make a minimally invasive simulation model, train surgeons and robotic assistants, difference for every patient and family and conduct a series of surgeries to assess and improve the approach. member we see. The surgery program—the first of its kind in Boston—is led by Thomas Clancy, MD, a surgical oncologist the Satters have come to know and trust. For more information if you are Ten years ago, after Satter came to the Brigham for a back X-ray, radiologists interested in making a gift to the detected a cyst in her pancreas. Dr. Clancy ordered follow-up scans every 6 to Department of Surgery at Brigham 12 months to monitor her condition, which has remained stable. and Women’s Hospital, or to a specific “The Brigham has been terrific to our entire family,” Satter said. Brigham physician or scientist within the physicians also helped her mother and sister contend with cancer. department, please contact Susan Dr. Clancy reciprocates this gratitude. “Thanks to Susan and Stewart’s Andrews, assistant vice president, generosity, we are able to develop a comprehensive program of robotic Development Office, at 617.424.4349 or pancreatic surgery. At the Brigham, we’re always looking for innovative ways to [email protected]. ª deliver the safest, most effective surgical care possible, and this gift helps us achieve that goal.” Brigham Surgery Developing this surgical approach means so much to the Satters. “It took Alumni my dad about six months to recover from Whipple surgery and rehab, a challenging experience for our whole family,” Satter said. “We want to help find The BWH Surgery Alumni Group new ways to perform this surgery for others like my dad.” consists of graduates of Brigham and “There’s no better place to be philanthropic than at the Brigham. We’re Women’s Hospital surgery residency excited to see the successes of Tom and his team. They give us all hope,” and fellowship programs and former Stewart Satter said. Department of Surgery faculty members. If you would like to join the BWH Surgery Alumni Group and receive news and updates from the Department of Surgery, please visit: bwhsurgerynews.partners.org/alumni or email us at: [email protected]. ª 54 BWH DOS
Leadership Division Administrators Gerard M. Doherty, MD Shawn S. Bonk Moseley Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School Breast Surgery Surgeon-in-Chief, Brigham Health & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Crowley Family Distinguished Chair, Department of Surgery, Keila L. Jackson, MHA Brigham and Women’s Hospital Cardiac Surgery C. Keith Ozaki, MD Jennifer Fanning Vice Chair, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital General and Gastrointestinal Surgery John A. Mannick Professor of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School Nathan J. Burke, MBA Oral Medicine Douglas S. Smink, MD, MPH Chief of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital Glen L. Palmer, MBA, FACHE Associate Chair of Education Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Ronald Bleday, MD Shannon Weiss, RN, MBA Associate Chair of Quality and Patient Safety Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Tari A. King, MD Courtney Andrade, MSM Associate Chair of Multidisciplinary Oncology Surgical Oncology Elizabeth Mittendorf, MD, PhD Philip Girard, MS Associate Chair of Research Thoracic Surgery Louis L. Nguyen, MD, MPH, MBA Lorraine T. Levitsky (interim) Associate Chair of Digital Health Systems Transplant Surgery Malcolm K. Robinson, MD Suzanna Clark, MHA Associate Chair of Clinical Operations Trauma, Burn and Surgical Critical Care Ali Salim, MD Sandra Doolan, MBA Associate Chair of Surgical Critical Care Urology Jennifer Shin, MD, SM Lorraine T. Levitsky Associate Chair of Faculty Development Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Philip D. Roberts, MBA CONTACT US Executive Administrator Department of Surgery Sarah Broughton Herd 75 Francis Street Director, Surgery Education Office Tower 1 – Room 110 Boston, MA 02115 Jamie Fu, MBA [email protected] Senior Administrative Director of Research 617.732.8181 Kevin T. Hart, MBA FOLLOW US Senior Director of Operations twitter.com/bwhsurgery Matthew S. Sandler, MBA Senior Director of Finance David A. Steger, MS in CREDITS Director of Communications DESIGN • one2tree PHOTOGRAPHY • Cover: Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe Victoria (Tori) Wilmarth, MBA Pg. 4, 6, 18 & 47: James P. Rathmell, MD Pg. 21: Max Esposito Director of Network Strategy touch! stay
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