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3 HMS Appointments 12 Alumni Spotlight: Geoffrey Dunn, MD 4 New Faculty 14 News Briefs 5 Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Residency 20 Teaching Awards 6 Transplant Surgery Chief: 22 Selected Publications Devin Eckhoff, MD Fall 2020 25 Graduation 2020 Volume 10, No. 2 7 Lymphatic Center 26 Laryngology 8 Taking on a Pandemic Inside Surgery is published by the 27 Welcome New Trainees Office of the Chairman of the Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Department of Surgery at Beth Israel Message from the Chair Deaconess Medical Center for faculty, trainees, staff, alumni, hen our previous issue was published, we were at affiliates, and friends. W the apex of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. At the time we were hopeful, although not overly optimistic, The mission of the that by Fall much of this would be behind us. While that is Department of Surgery: unfortunately not the case, here in Massachusetts we were • Provide care of the very able to flatten the curve enough to ensure that BIDMC was highest quality able to meet the needs of all of our patients—those infected with COVID-19 • Improve health through innovation and discovery as well as those with other conditions—while still continuing our training and • Prepare future leaders in research programs. American surgery In this issue you will read about the measures our department and BIDMC • Serve our communities with took to achieve these goals, relying on ingenuity, teamwork, and—perhaps most sensitivity and compassion importantly—an unwavering determination. I am proud of the courage and compassion shown by all members of our department who, despite the risk to Surgery Chair themselves and their families, selflessly went about their work. Elliot Chaikof, MD, PhD Among its many effects, this pandemic has brought to the forefront Editor/Writer longtime inequities in our society, including disparities in health care, which Hilary Bennett disproportionately impact people of color. The Black Lives Matter movement Photography has further shone a light on systemic racism and the need for fundamental Danielle Duffey/BIDMC change in our nation. James Dwyer/BIDMC Our department has a long history of addressing inequities in care and fostering diversity and inclusion, but we must do more. In our next issue, we will Please forward comments, news describe our journey from our earliest days, address where we are today and items, and requests to be added to our new initiatives, and share our plans for the future. or removed from the mailing list to: Editor, Inside Surgery, Beth Israel Meaningful change takes time, but we feel a sense of urgency that is Deaconess Medical Center, perhaps best conveyed in this poem, I Have Only Just a Minute, by the late Department of Surgery, LMOB-9C, Dr. Benjamin Mays, a Black American civil rights leader and former president 110 Francis St., Boston, MA 02215. of Morehouse College in Atlanta. E-mail: surgerycommunications@ I have only just a minute, bidmc.harvard.edu Only sixty seconds in it. Tel: 617-632-9581 Forced upon me, can’t refuse it. Didn’t seek it, didn’t choose it. bidmc.org/surgery But it’s up to me to use it. Cover photo of Scharukh Jalisi, MD, I must suffer if I lose it. Chief of Otolaryngology/Head and Give account if I abuse it. Neck Surgery, by James Dwyer/BIDMC. Just a tiny little minute, Dr. Jalisi was treated at BIDMC for but eternity is in it. COVID-19 in April. Follow us on Twitter @BIDMCSurgery

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Harvard Medical School Appointments

APPOINTED AS: WILLIAM V. McDERMOTT PROFESSOR OF SURGERY

Mark P. Callery, MD (2005, 2016). Dr. Callery has had more than 160 peer- Dr. Callery, Chief of the Division reviewed papers published and for 10 years served as of General Surgery and Chair an editor of HPB, the global specialty journal in his field. of the Department of Surgery’s Dr. Callery has been elected to key leadership roles Leadership Council, is an in many national and international professional societies, internationally recognized including the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary expert in complex pancreatic Association (IHPBA). He is past President of the Americas and hepatobiliary surgery. After Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA), the being recruited to BIDMC in 2001, prestigious Boston Surgical Society, and is currently Dr. Callery built the Division of President of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract General Surgery into a world-class service that, among (SSAT). This year Dr. Callery will receive Fellowship ad other achievements, established it as a pioneer in hominem by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. advancing minimally invasive methods to treat a range William V. McDermott, MD (1917-2001), the Cheever of gastrointestinal conditions. Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, was Dr. Callery’s clinical research focuses on outcomes Director of the Fifth (Harvard) Surgical Service, the in high-acuity pancreatico-biliary surgery. A dedicated predecessor of the BIDMC General Surgery Residency teacher and mentor, he has received numerous awards Program, which he relocated from Boston City Hospital to for teaching including the S. Robert Stone Award for New England Deaconess Hospital in 1973. Dr. McDermott Excellence in Teaching from Harvard Medical School served as Chief of Surgery at New England Deaconess (2013) and the George W. Starkey Award for Excellence Hospital from 1973 to 1986. in Teaching from the BIDMC Department of Surgery

APPOINTED AS: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF NEUROSURGERY

Justin Moore, MD, PhD, MPH completed a fellowship in skull base neuro-oncology Dr. Moore is Director of Skull Base and radiosurgery at Stanford Medical Center. Prior Neuro-oncology in the Department to joining the BIDMC Department of Surgery in 2019, of Surgery and Director of Dr. Moore, who also earned an MPH from the Harvard Research, Innovation, and T. H. Chan School of Public Health, was on the faculty of Radiosurgery in the BIDMC Brain Boston Medical Center. Aneurysm Institute. With expertise in skull base neuro-oncology Dr. Moore received his and cerebrovascular surgery, Dr. Moore is among a medical degree and a law small group of cerebrovascular neurosurgeons with degree from Monash University in experience in both neuro-interventional procedures Melbourne, Australia. He completed his surgical training and open methods. He is engaged in clinical research at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne while obtaining in cerebrovascular neurosurgery and is also involved a postgraduate degree in surgical anatomy from in the development and use of new techniques for the Melbourne University. He subsequently completed a PhD treatment of complex aneurysms, particularly flow- in neuro-genomics from the University of Oxford in the diversion devices. United Kingdom. Dr. Moore teaches trainees at all levels, and has had After completing his neurosurgery residency his research published in more than 75 peer-reviewed through the national Royal College of Surgeons publications. He also is a reviewer for several journals in Australia, Dr. Moore pursued a fellowship in including the Journal of Neurology. cerebrovascular neurosurgery at BIDMC and later Continued on page 21 > bidmc.org/surgery Inside Surgery | Fall 2020 — Page 3 HOME << | >> 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.

Kristen T. Crowell, MD Sonali V. Pandya, MD, MS Division: Colon and Rectal Surgery Director, BreastCare Center at BID-Needham Medical School: University of Texas Medical Branch Division: Surgical Oncology Residency: General Surgery, Medical School: Saint George’s Penn State Milton S. Hershey University Medical Center Residency: General Surgery, Clinical Fellowship: Colorectal Albany Medical Center Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Clinical Fellowship: Women’s Foundation Oncology, Women and Infants Hospital/Brown University

Sina Iranmanesh, MD Amy H. Parminder, MD Division: Vascular and Division: Ophthalmology Endovascular Surgery Medical School: Dalhousie Medical School: University of South University Medical School Florida College of Medicine Residency: Ophthalmology, Residency: General Surgery, Mt. Sinai Medical Center Vanderbilt University Clinical Fellowships: Cornea and Clinical Fellowship: Vascular Refractive Surgery, Manhattan Eye, Surgery, MedStar Georgetown Ear and Throat Hospital; University Hospital/MedStar Glaucoma, Tufts University/New Washington Hospital Center England Eye Center

Justin L. Massengale, MD Amy D. Wyrzykowski, MD Division: Neurosurgery Division: Acute Care Surgery, Medical School: Stanford Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care University School of Medicine Medical School: University of Residency: Neurosurgery, Stanford Pittsburgh School of Medicine University Medical Center Residency: General Surgery, Clinical Fellowship: Spine Emory University Neurosurgery, Stanford University Clinical Fellowships: Surgical Medical Center Critical Care, Grady Memorial Hospital/Emory University; Trauma Surgery, Grady Memorial Hospital/ Emory University

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n April, the Department of Surgery received Iapproval from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for its five-year Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Residency at BIDMC/Harvard Medical School. The Program Director is Scharukh Jalisi, MD, Chief of the Division of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery; the Associate Program Directors are James Naples, MD, and David Caradonna, MD, DMD.

“Our goal is to foster the development of highly skilled, confident otolaryngologists with a solid academic foundation who will become the future leaders in our field.” — Scharukh Jalisi, MD

According to Dr. Jalisi, this is the first entirely new Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Residency Program to be established in Boston since 1952. “We were thrilled to learn of the approval of our program and to admit our inaugural class of truly outstanding residents,” he says. In June, the program, which was approved to matriculate two residents a year, welcomed the members of its inaugural class: Victoria Huang, MD, a graduate of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and Peter Nagy, MD, Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Residency Program Director Dr. Scharukh Jalisi (far right) with Associate Program a graduate of the University of Tennessee Health Directors (from left) Drs. James Naples and David Caradonna Science Center College of Medicine. and residents Drs. Peter Nagy and Victoria Huang. The program offers a robust curriculum and comprehensive clinical experience with rotations • Laryngology, including the professional voice, at BIDMC and Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH). In swallowing, and airway addition, residents will have significant dedicated • Rhinology time to participate in research projects. • Skull base surgery The program’s faculty includes all members of • Otology/neuro-otology the BIDMC Division of Otolaryngology/Head and • Facial plastic and reconstructive surgery Neck Surgery as well as pediatric otolaryngologists • Pediatric otolaryngology at BCH. Residents will train in all aspects of “Our goal is to foster the development of highly otolaryngology, including: skilled, confident otolaryngologists with a solid • Head and neck surgical oncology academic foundation who will become the future • Microvascular reconstruction leaders in our field,” says Dr. Jalisi.

➔ For more information about the Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Residency at BIDMC/Harvard Medical School, please visit the Training and Education section of our website: bidmc.org/surgery.

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he Department of Surgery and BIDMC are Tpleased to welcome Devin E. Eckhoff, MD, as Chief of Transplant Surgery and Director of the Transplant Institute at BIDMC. Dr. Eckhoff joined the faculty in August. Dr. Eckhoff was recruited to BIDMC from the University of Alabama (UAB) at Birmingham, where he was Professor of Surgery and held the Arnold G. Diethelm Endowed Chair in Transplantation Surgery. Among many other leadership roles at UAB, Dr. Eckhoff was Director of the Division of Transplantation for 17 years. The UAB transplant program, one of the nation’s largest, is known for its clinical excellence and accomplishments in basic, translational, and clinical research. During Dr. Eckhoff’s tenure at UAB, several major initiatives were launched, including the Comprehensive Transplant Institute, the Alabama Organ Recovery Center, and the Xenotransplant Research Center. Dr. Eckhoff also initiated a multi-organ transplant fellowship, approved by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, which has trained more than a dozen fellows. In addition, several new clinical programs were launched under his leadership, including a paired kidney exchange, a desensitization and ABO- incompatible kidney transplant program, and a humans. Dr. Eckhoff’s research has been supported hepatobiliary service. New transplant programs were by grants from the National Institutes of Health and also established at the Children’s Hospital of Alabama industry, and is reflected in more than 150 published and the Veterans Hospital of Birmingham, and three peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. new liver satellite clinics were created. A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Eckhoff received his undergraduate degree the American Surgical Association, and the American from the University of Michigan and his medical degree Society of Transplantation, Dr. Eckhoff is an active from the University of Minnesota, graduating Alpha member of numerous professional societies. He is Omega Alpha. Following the completion of his residency frequently invited to speak nationally and internationally, in general surgery at the University of Wisconsin- and is a longtime member of the editorial boards of Madison, Dr. Eckhoff pursued a research fellowship in several leading journals. transplantation and subsequently a clinical/research Dr. Eckhoff is leading a division that has long been fellowship in transplantation, also at the University of at the forefront of transplant surgery. The work of Wisconsin-Madison. He is board certified in Surgery luminaries in the field such as Anthony Monaco, MD, and Surgical Critical Care. formerly Chief of Transplant Surgery at New England Among Dr. Eckhoff’s major research interests is Deaconess Hospital and later at BIDMC, and the late xenotransplantation, which is considered a promising Fritz Bach, MD, led to key advances that improved way to address the shortage of donor organs. He the outcomes of organ recipients. New England’s first is currently the principal investigator of two major, liver transplant was performed in 1983 at New England ongoing preclinical trials with the goal of transplanting Deaconess Hospital, and New England’s first living- genetically modified kidneys from pig models to donor liver transplant was conducted at BIDMC in 1998. bidmc.org/surgery Inside Surgery | Fall 2020 — Page 6 HOME << | >> Lymphatic Center Designated as Comprehensive Center of Excellence Only Center on the East Coast

he Lymphatic an institution provides TCenter at Beth the highest standards Israel Deaconess of multidisciplinary Medical Center/Boston care for individuals with Children’s Hospital was lymphatic diseases (LD), recently designated such as lymphedema, by the Lymphatic lipedema, and lymphatic Education & Research malformation, with explicit Network (LE&RN) as a standards for five distinct Comprehensive Center of categories of care. Excellence in Lymphatic There are five Disease. The center’s Centers of Excellence co-directors are Dhruv designations: designation Dhruv Singhal, MD Arin Greene, MD Singhal, MD, Plastic and as “comprehensive”—the Reconstructive Surgery, highest level— signifies founder and Director of that a center provides improve the lives of those is Vascular Anomalies the BIDMC Lymphatic and coordinates affected by LD and their and Pediatric Plastic Center, and Arin Greene, specific services on families. Since 2017, the Surgery Endowed Chair MD, Director of the site. These services BIDMC Lymphatic Center at Boston Children’s Lymphatic Program include comprehensive, has hosted an annual Hospital. Under the at Boston Children’s multidisciplinary LD- Lymphatic Symposium direction of Dr. Greene, Hospital. The LE&RN is an specific clinics; the full that attracts health care the Lymphatic Program at internationally recognized breadth of treatment professionals and patients Boston Children’s Hospital non-profit organization options; genetic testing/ from around the world. provides treatment for dedicated to fighting counseling; ancillary Dr. Singhal, one pediatric lymphedema lymphatic diseases and services such as physical of the world’s leading and obesity-induced lymphedema through or occupational therapy; experts in lymphedema lymphedema, and education, research, nutrition counseling, prevention and treatment, conducts research in and advocacy. and more. is a pioneer in preventive these areas. lymphovenous bypass “Our designation as surgery at the time of a Comprehensive Center axillary node dissection for of Excellence reassures breast cancer patients at patients and their families high risk of lymphedema. who are affected by He also performs lymphatic disease that vascularized lymph node when they come to us for transfer for the treatment evaluation and treatment Designation In addition, all of patients with chronic they will receive the by the LE&RN as a Centers of Excellence lymphedema and highest standard of care Comprehensive Center provide professional conducts lymphedema in a well-coordinated of Excellence followed a and lay education, are research. manner from experts who rigorous review by a team engaged in LD clinical Dr. Greene, an are laser-focused on their of international leaders in research, and work with alumnus of the BIDMC condition and dedicated lymphatic medicine. This the LE&RN locally and General Surgery to their ongoing well- designation indicates that nationally in its efforts to Residency Program, being,” says Dr. Singhal.

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Illustration by BIDMC General Surgery intern Stephanie Cohen, MD. Dr. Cohen’s illustrations have been published in numerous journals and displayed at the National Academy of Medicine in Washington, D.C. Taking on a Pandemic Department Never Wavers in Response to COVID-19 Crisis

ne week after quarantining felt fine. But by day eight, all that the bathroom 10 feet from his bed. Ohimself in his home following a changed: Dr. Jalisi developed body Exhausted and with no sense of positive test for COVID-19, which he aches, chills, and fatigue that left taste, he was unable to eat and lost contracted from an infected patient, him unable to do anything but 15 pounds. Scharukh Jalisi, MD, thought he was sleep around the clock. Though he When Dr. Jalisi tested his blood out of the woods. never spiked a fever, by day 13 he oxygen level, he realized he was For seven days in early April, experienced shortness of breath so getting progressively worse and his symptoms were mild and he profound he could barely walk to asked his wife, who also tested

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positive but was faring better, to Department of Surgery. points out Dr. Cook, considering take him to BIDMC, where he is The department’s the unique space and equipment Chief of Otolaryngology/Head and responsibilities were not limited to requirements of an ICU. Neck Surgery. “I would not go to ensuring that COVID-19 patients, On one floor, for example, any other hospital,” says Dr. Jalisi, many of whom were critically ill, windows had to be quickly installed who was so short of breath he had would have adequately equipped on the doors of patients’ rooms to be transported from his car into ICUs staffed by experienced, so clinicians could view patients the Emergency Department in a properly protected critical care on ventilators around the clock. Accomplishing this transformation in such a short period required the “We prepared for the worst, believing it was better participation and coordination of personnel throughout the medical to be overprepared than underprepared.” center, from Information Technology —Charles Cook, MD and Environmental Health and Safety staff to pharmacists and wheelchair, after which he was doctors and staff. The department biomedical engineers. admitted to a unit for COVID-19 also needed to provide care for all patients only. other surgical patients, including Disaster-management Participating in a clinical trial those needing emergency surgery, approaches being conducted at BIDMC, Dr. Jalisi evaluation, or follow-up care; Another challenge was determining was administered the investigational continue its educational and training how to staff these new ICUs with antiviral drug remdesivir, which he programs for residents and fellows; clinicians experienced in caring credits with keeping him out of the and pivot some of its research for critically ill patients, even as the ICU and off a ventilator. “Within toward challenges posed by the possibility loomed that some of 24 hours of receiving the infusion, novel coronavirus. them could become infected and be I started feeling better,” says Dr. unavailable for weeks. Jalisi, who remained hospitalized ‘Better to be overprepared’ Because all elective surgical for five days. After recovering Creating sufficient ICUs with procedures had been cancelled further at home and following two adequate equipment and and there was fortunately a steep negative COVID-19 tests, Dr. Jalisi experienced critical care staff was decline in trauma cases due to the enthusiastically returned to his a top priority. It was unknown how state’s shelter-in-place orders, the job in early May. “I received such many ICU beds would be needed, decision was made to redeploy compassionate, excellent care but having seen how hard hit New general surgeons, led by chief from everyone at BIDMC,” says York City was “We prepared for the Mark Callery, MD, to handle Dr. Jalisi. “It made me very proud worst, believing it was better to be emergency operations and trauma to work here.” overprepared than underprepared,” patients. This freed Dr. Cook and Dr. Jalisi was wise to have says Charles Cook, MD, Chief of his colleagues in the division, in chosen BIDMC for his care, as Acute Care Surgery, Trauma, and coordination with intensivists in the the medical center was extremely Surgical Critical Care. Dr. Cook Departments of Anesthesiology well-prepared to meet the needs of worked closely with Surgery Chair and Medicine, to help cover the COVID-19 patients, even during the Elliot Chaikof, MD, PhD, and other expanded ICU capacity. peak of the surge when the hospital medical center personnel in the Using established disaster- was caring for some 350 infected Hospital Incident Command System management approaches, Dr. Cook, patients, many in intensive care. on this vital effort. in collaboration with Dr. Chaikof, This preparedness was the result In just a matter of weeks, the Richard Whyte, MD, MBA, and of weeks of teamwork, strategic number of ICU beds nearly doubled, others, developed a departmental planning, hard work, and creative from 77 to 130. This was achieved plan to pair experienced critical thinking on the part of virtually by transforming non-critical care care staff with staff from other everyone in the medical center and areas, including medical/surgical divisions more removed from the Beth Israel Lahey Health system units and a Post Anesthesia Care critical care, should the crisis of which it is a part, with a major Unit, into COVID ICUs, all equipped demand. “Thankfully Boston did role played by members of the with ventilators—no simple task, Continued on page 10 > bidmc.org/surgery Inside Surgery | Fall 2020 — Page 9 HOME << | >> < Continued from page 9 not reach that tipping point,” says for patients who needed to connect having to return to his office, which Dr. Cook. Still, nearly 90 OR staff with a surgeon for evaluation or would have required the lengthy were redeployed to help care for follow-up care. process of removing and donning COVID-19 patients, according to Dr. With help from Harvard his personal protective equipment. Whyte, Vice Chair of Quality, Safety, Medical Faculty Physician (HMFP) Dr. Gangadharan’s enthusiasm and Clinical Affairs. “Everyone— leadership, many divisions within for telehealth was mirrored by nurses, faculty, and staff—was the department quickly began others in the department. “Faculty remarkably resilient,” says Dr. Whyte. offering telehealth visits to patients embraced this as they wanted The last COVID ICU at BIDMC via video or phone. Chief of Thoracic to continue to provide excellent was closed down in early June, an Surgery/Interventional Pulmonology care to their patients,” says Dr. event that marked the beginning of Sidhu Gangadharan, MD, MHCM, Gangadharan. While there are a slow return to normalcy coupled who was involved in this effort logistical issues that need to be with the hope that re-opening and conducted virtual visits with addressed, Dr. Gangadharan them will not be necessary. “We his patients for weeks, says, “So believes that telehealth is here to are all deeply saddened by the much of what we do as doctors is stay and will enable the department loss of life due to this pandemic,” communicating with patients, which to offer care that is even more says Dr. Cook. “I am grateful to does not necessarily require an in- convenient and accessible for my colleagues in the department person appointment. We found that patients going forward. and the entire hospital for coming most patients seemed happy and together in a crisis, despite the risk relieved to have this option.” Teaching and training to themselves and their families, to Dr. Gangadharan also Teaching and training residents take the best possible care of all of discovered that telehealth and fellows in the midst of such our patients.” appointments allowed him to be extraordinary circumstances also more productive and available to required resourcefulness and Telehealth: ‘Here to stay’ patients. On days when he was resilience. “Suddenly we had to stop The department also had to quickly operating he could conduct virtual all in-person gatherings: weekly develop a strategy to provide care patient visits between cases without meetings, classes, journal clubs, and Grand Rounds,” says Tara Kent, MD, MS, Program Director of the General Surgery Residency and Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Surgery. Didactic teaching that was formerly done in person was quickly replaced with virtual sessions. The department even gained widespread national attention on social media for its virtual video happy hours, which helped foster trainees’ wellness during an especially stressful time. Other changes that were quickly implemented involved modifying clinical work environments to maintain social distancing as much as possible. For example, residents did “sign outs” at the end of their shifts virtually rather than in person, and laparoscopic skills training in the BIDMC Simulation and Skills Center was limited to smaller groups. bidmc.org/surgery Inside Surgery | Fall 2020 — Page 10 HOME << | >>

Still, not all teaching can be (SARS-CoV-2) interacts with human Michael Yaffe, MD, PhD, who is done virtually. Cadaver labs and cells to achieve efficient infection. also a professor at Massachusetts the endoscopy rotation had to Specifically, Dr. Cummings is Institute of Technology, gained cease due to the high risk. Because focusing on the glycan receptor national attention when they there were no elective surgeries, specificity of SARS-CoV-2 and and colleagues at BIDMC, the residents also participated in fewer other coronaviruses, exploring the University of Colorado at Denver, surgical cases (as adjusted by the possibility that the virus achieves and elsewhere published several American Board of Surgery due to infection via a multi-step process case reports suggesting that the the pandemic), but this was partly offset by the additional critical care experience they acquired. “Our department could not have responded the Fortunately, the department’s way it did to this unprecedented crisis without our residents (who could opt out of trainees, who were critical to our efforts and went direct care of COVID-19 patients above and beyond in every conceivable way.” for health reasons and were not permitted to perform certain —Tara Kent, MD, MS high-risk procedures) were able to stay within the department involving its glycans and interactions drug tissue plasminogen activator rather than being deployed to with glycans. (tPA) might reduce deaths among other departments, which enabled This research builds on his lab’s patients with COVID-19-induced them to continue to work and learn recent success in deciphering the ARDS. Long used to treat patients alongside Surgery faculty. glycans of the human lung and with stroke and heart attack, tPA “We were able to change creating a lung glycan library and was approved by the FDA in 1996. course and our residents adapted glycan microarray to test for virus Based on this work, in May the quickly and admirably. In fact, binding. This work, which is being group received FDA approval for a our department could not have conducted in collaboration with multi-center, phase 2a clinical trial responded the way it did to this researchers at Emory University and that will enroll 50 COVID-19 patients unprecedented crisis without our the national Centers of Excellence who will be randomly assigned trainees, who were critical to our for Influenza Research and to receive the drug or a placebo. efforts and went above and beyond Surveillance program, is funded by Findings from this study (the STARS in every conceivable way,” says a grant from the National Institute of Trial) will provide timely information Dr. Kent. She adds that while some Allergy and Infectious Diseases. on the safety, efficacy, and optimal aspects of the training program In the clinical realm, BIDMC dosing of tPA to treat moderate to were not feasible due to the surgeon-investigators are looking severe COVID-19-induced ARDS, pandemic, “I believe that in the at whether a readily available which can be rapidly adapted to a long arc of a surgeon’s career this fibrinolytic (“clot busting”) drug phase 3 trial. unique learning experience will could be repurposed to save the These unprecedented times more than compensate.” lives of gravely ill COVID-19 patients. have tested the limits of hospitals These patients often succumb to and health care workers around COVID-focused research acute respiratory distress syndrome the world, including BIDMC and Many members of the department’s (ARDS), a severe lung injury the Department of Surgery. But research community also redirected common in critically ill patients that through a combination of thoughtful their focus to address challenges has no treatment beyond supportive planning, rapid execution, posed by the novel coronavirus care. It was reported in the New teamwork, and determination, the (see publications, page 22). England Journal of Medicine and members of the Department of In the laboratory, Richard D. other leading journals that the Surgery did what they always do in Cummings, PhD, Director of the overwhelming majority of patients times of crisis—focused on finding National Center for Functional with ARDS induced by COVID-19 innovative solutions to challenging Glycomics and the Harvard Medical experience abnormal blood clotting problems and worked together to School Center for Glycoscience, is in the lungs and blood vessels. fulfill their mission. now investigating how the novel Resident Christopher Barrett, coronavirus that causes COVID-19 MD, and acute care/trauma surgeon and surgeon-scientist bidmc.org/surgery Inside Surgery | Fall 2020 — Page 11 HOME << | >> ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Geoffrey P. Dunn, MD, 1984 Surgeon and Medical Director, Palliative Care Consultation Service, UPMC Hamot Medical Center, Erie, Pennsylvania (Retired)

s a young man, Geoffrey Dunn, MD, planned on Abecoming a professional artist. While attending Haverford College, he took time off to study art in Germany, only to soon realize that he really wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father, grandfather, and great grandfather, all of whom were surgeons in Erie, Pennsylvania. When he informed his father of his new plans, the senior Dr. Dunn replied, “You are now a public servant.” Dr. Dunn, who retired in 2018, took his father’s words to heart. “As a fourth-generation surgeon, I inherited a strong tradition of service,” he says— Now happily retired, Dr. Geoffrey Dunn played a leadership role in transforming surgical palliative care from an outlier to a fully service that led him to advocate for palliative care integrated part of surgical practice and training. in surgery and become one of the world’s foremost authorities on surgical palliative care. met in Europe while serving on the front lines After graduating from Jefferson Medical College during WWII. at Thomas Jefferson University (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College), Dr. Dunn was excited to match to A moral imperative the Fifth (Harvard) Surgical Service, the predecessor Dr. Dunn credits Dr. McDermott and many other to the BIDMC General Surgery Residency Program. mentors in the Fifth Surgical Service for helping “During my interviews, everyone I met was very shape his thinking as a young doctor and, ultimately, cordial and I felt the program was a good fit for his career choice. One was Blake Cady, MD, a me,” says Dr. Dunn. He was especially pleased to be “master surgeon and urbane intellectual,” whose in the program led by William V. McDermott, MD, philosophy was consistent with the tenets of a “gregarious man and unflappable surgeon” who palliative care. Another was Horst Filtzer, MD, who became a close friend of his father when the two insisted that his patients always receive adequate treatment for pain. Still another was John Schuler, MD, a role model who became a longtime friend. “These surgeons, as well as my father, all of whom had formidable technical skills, understood that there was a moral imperative to provide palliative care to patients, which had a lasting influence on me,” says Dr. Dunn. Following his graduation in 1984, Dr. Dunn eagerly returned to Erie to be able to work closely with his father in the Department of Surgery at Hamot Medical Center, a large tertiary hospital serving northwestern Pennsylvania that is now part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Dr. Dunn’s busy practice encompassed Dr. Dunn is a longtime painter whose work has been exhibited a wide range of adult and pediatric surgical care, in juried and one-person shows. This recent painting is entitled “Vanitus study.” bidmc.org/surgery Inside Surgery | Fall 2020 — Page 12 HOME << | >>

including trauma, burns, cancer, and endocrine surgery. “My residency training, including my pediatric rotations at Boston Children’s Hospital, PRINCIPLES OF PALLIATIVE CARE prepared me extremely well for a diverse general “Palliative care aims to relieve physical surgical practice,” says Dr. Dunn, who also served as pain and psychological, social, and spiritual Chair of Surgery at Hamot in the mid-1990s. suffering while supporting the patient’s treatment goals and respecting the patient’s A transformative experience racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural values… In 1988, Dr. Dunn had an opportunity to volunteer his Although palliative care includes hospice services at a hospital in India, where seeing an unmet care and care near the time of death, it also need, he helped establish a burn unit to treat mostly embraces the management of pain and women who were victims of the horrific practice of suffering in medical and surgical conditions “bride burning.” This was a transformative experience throughout life.” that contributed to palliative care becoming a central An excerpt from the “Statement of Principles of Palliative Care” developed by the Task Force on theme of his career going forward. Surgical Palliative Care chaired by Geoffrey P. Dunn, At the time Dr. Dunn began championing surgical MD, and approved by the Board of Regents of the palliative care, many surgeons viewed it narrowly—as American College of Surgeons in 2005. comfort measures provided, usually by others, only at the end of life—rather than as an ongoing effort by a multidisciplinary team, including surgeons, to reduce aspects of palliative care, and edited or co-edited suffering and improve the quality of life of patients the major reference books for surgeons interested with serious and life-limiting illness. in the field: The Surgeon and Palliative Care (2001); “Palliative care was almost a pejorative term Surgical Palliative Care (2004); and Surgical among surgeons back then, who tended to view an Palliative Care: Integrating Palliative Care (2019). inability to cure patients as a failure,” says Dr. Dunn, To educate future generations of surgeons, who in 1998 became the full-time Medical Director Dr. Dunn co-edited “Surgical Palliative Care: A of the Palliative Care Consultation Service at UPMC Resident’s Guide” (2009), which has been used in Hamot Medical Center, a position he held for 20 hundreds of residency programs nationwide. He was years. He also was the Medical Director of the Great also formerly an editor for the Annals of Palliative Lakes Hospice in Erie for a decade. Medicine and served on the editorial board of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. From outlier to integration As stated in the ACS principles of palliative care Through his tireless efforts over many years, (see above), “The tradition and heritage of surgery Dr. Dunn played a leadership role in transforming emphasize that the control of suffering is of equal surgical palliative care from an outlier to a fully importance to the cure of disease.” Throughout integrated part of surgical practice and training. his productive career, Dr. Dunn wholeheartedly He served for 15 years as chair of the American embraced this concept and advocated for it on College of Surgeons (ACS) Task Force on Surgical the world stage—for the benefit patients and Palliative Care, which among other accomplishments surgeons alike. led to a board certification in Hospice and Palliative These days, Dr. Dunn, who is married to an Medicine by the American Board of Surgery. For obstetrician and has an adult son, is as busy as years he was the representative of the American ever. As a longtime plein-air painter of landscapes Academy of Hospice and Palliative Care to the whose work has been exhibited in juried and one- ACS Commission on Cancer and also served on man shows in Erie and elsewhere, he continues to the ACS Board of Governors. paint. He is also engaged in environmental causes In addition, Dr. Dunn lectured on this subject and, when time permits, enjoys toiling in his garden worldwide, authored scores of articles on various overlooking the shores of Lake Erie. bidmc.org/surgery Inside Surgery | Fall 2020 — Page 13 HOME << | >> NEWSBRIEFS

Resident Eve Roth, MD, who The 2020-2021 graduated from Harvard Administrative Medical School in May, received Chief Residents the Janee and Paul Friedmann, of the General MD ’59 Surgery Prize for the Surgery graduating medical student Residency who demonstrates exceptional Program are promise for leadership, Charity Glass, education, and research in surgery. MD, MPP, and Nicholas Swerdlow, MD. Drs. Glass and Swerdlow were selected for this honor by their peers and faculty because of their dedication to the residency, demonstrated leadership, and commitment to the education and well-being of all residents.

Aria Olumi, MD, Chief of the Division of Urologic Surgery, recently received a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Martina Stippler, MD, Neurosurgery, assumed the and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) R01 role of Chair of Women in Neurosurgery (WINS) in grant to assess the regulation early 2020. The mission of WINS, an international of SRD5A2—a critical enzyme organization celebrating its 30th anniversary for prostatic development and this year, is to promote a cooperative and growth—as a marker to identify the approximately 30% supportive environment among women practicing of normal adult men who do not express SRD5A2. Men neurosurgery, including those training to become who lack this enzyme may be resistant to 5α-reductase neurosurgeons. inhibitors, such as finasteride, for the management of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and its associated urinary tract symptoms, which affect 90% of elderly Alia Qureshi, MD, MSc, General men and negatively impact the quality of life of 210 Surgery, was invited to serve million men globally. The findings from this research as Chair of the Leadership and will have broad implications for the development of Professional Development Task predictive biomarkers that can be used to evaluate Force of the Society of American resistance to BPH-related therapies and allow Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic clinicians to select alternate therapies for managing Surgeons (SAGES) for 2020- BPH, the most common proliferative disorder among 2021. The mission of the task men worldwide. force is to identify barriers to creating a diverse organization and to develop a strategic Elliot Chaikof, MD, PhD, Surgery plan for the implementation of Chair, was selected by the programs and opportunities graduating Harvard Medical School that promote diversity and (HMS) Class of 2020 to receive the inclusivity within SAGES, one of the largest surgical Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. societies in the world. The award, which is given annually, was presented to Dr. Chaikof during a virtual Class Day ceremony on May 28 and will be presented in person at a later date. According to Class Day co-moderators David Clossey, MD, and Eve Roth, MD, now a BIDMC Surgery intern, students who nominated Dr. Chaikof for this honor

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commended him for his “outstanding support for the development of future surgeon-scientists” and for “leaving an indelible mark on our personal growth.”

Resident Shahdabul (Shad) Faraz, MD, had his article published in NPR Health News in May: “My Bedside Manner Got Worse During the Pandemic: Here’s How I Improved.” Dr. Faraz, who is currently attending Harvard Business School during his research elective years, has had his The Department of Surgery was the grateful writing published in the New York Times, CNN, and New recipient of many expressions of support and York’s Daily News. generosity during the busiest weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, which helped make a Mihir Parikh, MD, Thoracic Surgery challenging time a bit less stressful. and Interventional Pulmonology, is Recent General Surgery graduate Meredith the recipient of a Rabkin Fellowship Baker, MD, and her fiancé Martin Isabelle, for 2020-2021. A program of the of BlanQuil™, donated 90 BlanQuil weighted BIDMC Academy that emphasizes blankets to Surgery residents to help them relax experiential learning, the yearlong and sleep. Above, Mr. Isabelle hands a blanket to fellowship provides faculty with the resident Drew Sanders, MD. opportunity to develop the expertise With the help of BIDMC friends Faith Michaels and skills to launch or advance academic careers in and Peggy Stander, JK Automotive Design, Kids medical education and/or academic administration. Clothes Club, and The Makery donated 300 face Dr. Parikh is Director of Interventional Pulmonology shields for BIDMC health care workers. Recipients at BID-Milton and Program Director of the Advanced included these members of the Division of Thoracic Diagnostic Bronchoscopy Fellowship Program Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology in the at BIDMC. Department of Surgery and the BIDMC Chest Disease Center (standing, from left): Priya Patel, MD, Adnan Majid, MD, Ammara Watkins, MD, BIDMC’s three-year MPH, Ramsy Abdelghani, MD (seated, from left): Podiatric Medicine Amanda Nesta, NP, and Alichia Paton, NP. and Surgery Residency Program, led by Podiatry Chief John Giurini, DPM, and Program Director Thanh Dinh, DPM, received the maximum five-year reaccreditation from the Council on Podiatric Medical Education of the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA). Launched in 1972, the residency will mark its 50th anniversary in 2022, making it the longest-running podiatry residency program at the same institution in the United States. The program, which initially trained one resident each year but since the early 1990s has trained two per year, has graduated 68 residents.

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Peter Steinberg, MD, Urologic A poster by Robert Carrasquillo, Surgery, had an opinion piece MD, Urologic Surgery, and his published in the Wall Street Journal collaborators received the best in March entitled “Virtual Doctors poster award of its session at Are Here to Stay.” Dr. Steinberg’s the 2020 American Urological article discusses how some of Association (virtual) meeting in May. the changes in the way medicine The poster, presented by Kenneth is being practiced during the Softness, MD, MS, a resident in the coronavirus pandemic, such as telemedicine, are Harvard Urology Residency Program at BIDMC, was beneficial and should become a permanent part entitled “Access to Male Fertility Preservation Information of the health care landscape. and Referrals at National Cancer Institute Cancer Centers.” Other collaborators were Aaron Perecman, a student at Quinnipiac Medical School, and Taylor Kohn, Residents Kortney Robinson, MD, MD, a urology resident at Johns Hopkins. MPH, and Borami (Bora) Shin, MD, matched to Cardiothoracic Surgery for their fellowship training. Dr. Robinson will train at Baylor Scott & White Dallas-Fort Worth, and Dr. Shin will train at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The residents will begin their fellowships in 2021 following their graduation from the General Surgery Residency Program.

Resident Michelle Fakler, MD, MPA/ID, On June 5, BIDMC surgeons and many other doctors received her Master in and health care workers throughout the medical center Public Administration in and the nation kneeled in silence for 8-minutes and 46 International Development seconds to recognize the public health impact of racism from the Harvard Kennedy on Black Americans and to underscore the important School in May. Dr. Fakler, role of doctors and hospitals in anti-racism efforts. who plans to be involved in Pictured above is cardiac surgeon Jacques Kpodonu, the planning and development of health systems policy MD, and the large gathering outside the Shapiro Clinical at the international level in the future, completed the Center on the BIDMC campus. More than 900 people two-year program during her research elective years. logged in to participate in the event online.

A poster by neuro-otologist James Nurhan Torun, MD, Chief Naples, MD, Otolaryngology/ of Ophthalmology, was the Head and Neck Surgery, entitled recipient of the 2020 BIDMC “Circulatory Otologic Biomarkers in Academy Award, which is given Meniere’s Disease and Vestibular to a member who demonstrates Migraine” received the second the highest commitment to the place award from the American BIDMC Academy community Neurotology Society in May. through participation, service, and Dr. Naples also participated in webinars hosted by engagement. According to BIDMC Academy Co- CSurgeries, an online, peer-reviewed surgical video Directors Daniel Ricotta, MD, and Grace Huang, MD, site, and served on an international panel via the Dr. Torun, who serves on the executive committee, “has CSurgeries website to discuss otologic surgery during demonstrated unwavering support to the community COVID-19. as one of its most active members.” The mission of bidmc.org/surgery Inside Surgery | Fall 2020 — Page 16 HOME << | >>

the BIDMC Academy is to enhance and foster the educational development of physicians, scientists, clinicians, and other health care professionals throughout BIDMC.

Jim Sargent, BSN, RN, joined BIDMC in June as Director of the Endovascular Surgery, serves on the Executive and Trauma Program in the Department Research Advisory Committee of the SVS VQI. Vascular of Surgery. Mr. Sargent came and Endovascular Surgery Chief Marc Schermerhorn, to BIDMC from Wellstar Atlanta MD, MPH, formerly served on the committee and is Medical Center in Atlanta, Georgia, President of the New England Society for Vascular where he had served as Trauma Surgery, one of the vascular professional societies that Program Manager since 2016. endorses the SVS VQI. Previously, Mr. Sargent was Trauma Program Manager at Wellstar North Fulton Hospital for 12 years, and prior to that held positions as a staff and charge nurse in emergency medicine at several Georgia hospitals. Mr. Sargent is a graduate of the University of Alabama and also served in the United States Navy.

Ted James, MD, MS, Chief of Breast Surgical Oncology and Vice Chair of Surgery (Academic and Faculty The Sandra and Richard Cummings Resident Research Affairs), was selected to give an Fellowship in Surgery provides support for the next oral presentation on “Predictive generation of innovative investigators. The fellowship Factors of Discordant Response to was established with a generous gift from Richard D. Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy” at Cummings, PhD, Vice Chair of Basic and Translational the American College of Surgeons Research, and Director of the Harvard Medical School Clinical Congress 2020 in early October. Center for Glycoscience and the National Center for Functional Glycomics and his wife, Senior Research Associate Sandra Cummings. The fellowship provides Debra Leven, EdD, MBA, MPH, recipients with at least $25,000 a year, for one- or Administrative Director of Surgical two-year periods, to support promising research Oncology, Breast Surgery, the projects spanning an array of fields. This year’s award Pancreas and Liver Institute (PLI), recipients are General Surgery residents Jordan and Podiatric Surgery, recently Broekhuis, MD, Gabrielle Dombek, MD, and Lumeng received a Doctor of Education (EdD) Jenny Yu, MD, and neurosurgery resident Anirudh in Organizational Leadership Studies Penumaka, MD, MSc. from Northeastern University.

Per-Olof Hasselgren, MD, PhD, is the The Society for Vascular Surgery’s Vascular Quality author of “Thyroid Cancer & Thyroid Initiative (SVS VQI) awarded BIDMC three stars—the Nodules in 30 Minutes: A guide to highest possible rating—for its active participation in symptoms, diagnosis, surgery, and the Registry Participation Program. The SVS VQI is disease management.” One in a composed of 14 registries containing demographic, series of “in 30 Minutes” guides clinical, procedural, and outcomes data from more published by i30 Media, the book than 670,000 vascular procedures performed in the was published in June. U.S. and Canada. The mission of the VQI is to improve the quality, safety, effectiveness, and cost of vascular health care. Lars Stangenberg, MD, PhD, Vascular and Continued on page 18 > bidmc.org/surgery Inside Surgery | Fall 2020 — Page 17 HOME << | >> NEWSBRIEFS < Continued from page 17

Vascular Surgery The Division of Urologic Surgery presented the 2019 and a group of medical students Most Highly Cited around the country (the Urology Article Award to Surgery Chair Elliot Chaikof, MD, Student Anki Group, or USAG) PhD, for “The Society for Vascular Surgery Practice collaborated to create a Urology Guidelines on the Care of Patients with an Abdominal Anki deck designed to help Aortic Aneurysm,” published in the January 2018 medical students prepare for Journal of Vascular Surgery. A Department of Surgery sub-internships and the first contributing author was Marc Schermerhorn, MD, year of a Urology residency. MPH, Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. Anki is a flashcard app now popular among medical students that uses a spaced repetition algorithm to facilitate learning new material. The Resident Lumeng Jenny Yu, MD, is the recipient of BIDMC Urology Anki deck covers core urologic an American College of Surgeons (ACS) Scientific concepts across the spectrum of urologic conditions Forum Excellence in Research Award (pediatric including urologic emergencies, benign prostatic surgery category) for her hyperplasia, erectile dysfunction, voiding dysfunction, abstract “The VEGF Heparin- urinary tract infection, prostate cancer, and Binding Domain Contributes nephrolithiasis. to Proliferative Signaling and The questions were developed and peer-reviewed Pulmonary Functional Outcomes in by members of the BIDMC Urologic Surgery faculty. Compensatory Lung Growth.” The According to urologist Boris Gershman, MD, who award will be highlighted during worked closely with the students, in the future the group the ACS 2020 Clinical Congress and plans to release additional decks covering surgical award recipients will be featured in a supplemental anatomy and an expanded set of clinical conditions. issue of the Journal of the American College of The USAG students, all of whom will graduate Surgeons. Dr. Yu, who is conducting her research in 2021, are: Chanan Reitblat and Varnel Antoine, elective at Boston Children’s Hospital, is mentored Harvard Medical School; Megan Gurjar, UNC School of by Mark Puder, MD, PhD, a BIDMC General Surgery Medicine; Jonathan Dokter, Oakland University William alumnus. Beaumont School of Medicine; Michelle Rose Shabo, University of Massachusetts Medical School; and Jonathan Sussman, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Resident Omar Haque, MD, MPH, graduated in May from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health Surgery residents had a strong presence at the 2020 (as a Zuckerman Fellow) with a annual (virtual) meeting of the New England Society of concentration in health policy. Colon and Rectal Surgeons in June. Presentations were Dr. Haque’s thesis was overseen made by: Benjamin Allar, MD, Gabrielle Dombek, MD, by Khalid Khwaja, MD, Transplant Ana Sofia Ore, MD, MPH, Jonathan Pastrana Del Valle, Surgery. Also, Dr. Haque gave an MD, Michelle Fakler, MD, MPA/ID, Alessandra Storino, oral presentation at the American Transplant Congress MD, and Daniel Wong, MD. Dr. Wong received the 2020 on “Liver Transplant with Donation after Cardiac third-place award for his presentation “Dose-Intensified Death versus Donation after Brain Death Donors: Infliximab Rescue Therapy for Acute Ulcerative Colitis: Survival and Outcomes at 10 Years.” Dr. Khwaja was Does It Decrease the Need for Colectomy?” The his mentor on this project. residents’ mentors in the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery are Chief Evangelos Messaris, MD, PhD, Thomas Cataldo, MD, and Anne Fabrizio, MD.

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IN MEMORIAM The Department of Surgery mourns the loss of our colleagues Khalid O. Khwaja, MD, and Russell J. Nauta, MD.

Khalid O. Khwaja, MD to lead its kidney transplantation Dr. Khwaja, a gifted transplant program but in 2012 rejoined the and hepatobiliary surgeon, served BIDMC Department of Surgery in several leadership roles at as Surgical Director of Solid BIDMC, including as Acting Chief Organ Transplantation. and Senior Clinical Director of the Dr. Khwaja mentored scores BIDMC Transplant Institute and of trainees, performed the Surgical Director of Solid Organ majority of complex liver surgery Transplantation. Dr. Khwaja at BIDMC, and was critical to passed away on August 23. the successful re-initiation of the Dr. Khwaja received his MD Living Related Liver Transplant from the Aga Khan University Program. He developed teaching Medical College in Pakistan. He modules for the surgical aspects completed a residency in general of pancreas transplantation surgery and a research fellowship for the American Society of at the University of Connecticut Transplant Surgeons, which are and subsequently pursued a now used by trainees worldwide. fellowship in transplantation at the Dr. Khwaja’s research Organ Bank, and was an active University of Minnesota. interests focused on post- member of the American Society After joining BIDMC in 2003, transplant immunosuppression of Transplant Surgeons. Dr. Khwaja re-established the and transplant outcomes. Dr. Khwaja is survived by Pancreatic Transplantation A national leader, Dr. Khwaja his mother, Dr. Zahida Khwaja; Program, growing it to become the served on influential committees his partner, Amanda Reid; two largest in New England. In 2008, of the United Network for Organ children; two brothers; and many Dr. Khwaja joined Lahey Clinic Sharing and the New England other relatives.

Russell J. Nauta, MD Dr. Nauta was Chair of the injury and the role of the Vitamin Department of Surgery at Mount D receptor in human cancers. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Over a decade, he transformed Mass. and Vice Chair of the the Georgetown General Surgery Department of Surgery at BIDMC. Residency into one of the dominant A graduate of Wesleyan academic training programs in University, Dr. Nauta received the country. his MD from Georgetown In 1998, Harvard recruited University School of Medicine and Dr. Nauta as Chair of the completed his surgical residency Department of Surgery at Mount at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Auburn Hospital and Vice Chair Dr. Nauta began his academic of the Department of Surgery career at Georgetown University at BIDMC. Over the ensuing 22 Hospital, where he quickly years Dr. Nauta had an enormous ascended to Professor of Surgery impact on the careers of countless examiner for the American Board and Director of the General Harvard Medical School students of Surgery. At Harvard Medical Surgery Residency Program, as and BIDMC surgical residents School, he served for nearly two well as Chief of General Surgery as an outstanding clinician decades as a member of the and Surgical Oncology. and educator. Admissions Committee. At Georgetown, Dr. Nauta Dr. Nauta was an important Dr. Nauta, who passed developed a busy, diverse practice national figure, holding many away on June 12, is survived by and conducted research on leadership roles in the American his mother; his wife, Claire; two hepatic ischemic-reperfusion College of Surgeons, and was an children; and three grandchildren. bidmc.org/surgery Inside Surgery | Fall 2020 — Page 19 HOME << | >> Trainee and Faculty Teaching Awards Each June departmental teaching awards are announced at the White Coat Ceremony, where awardees are acknowledged and rising chief residents receive their white coats (this year virtually) from graduating chief residents. We are proud to announce this year’s award recipients and acknowledge our new chief residents.

ABSITE* AWARDS Highest junior-level resident on the 2020 ABSITE Scott Fligor, MD Highest senior-level resident on the 2020 ABSITE Meredith Baker, MD Residents scoring above the 90th percentile on the 2020 ABSITE Lorenzo Anez-Bustillos, MD, MPH Alexander Chalphin, MD Daniel Cloonan, MD Mark Kashtan, MD, MPH Stefanie Lazow, MD Betty Liu, MD Kortney Robinson, MD, MPH Savas Tsikis, MD Ashlyn Whitlock, MD Lumeng Jenny Yu, MD

Chief residents for 2020-2021, from left: (front row) Christopher Barrett, MD, Charity Glass, MD, MPP, Kortney Robinson, MD, MPH, and Nicholas Swerdlow, MD; (back row) Asish Misra, MD, PhD, Jordan Pyda, MD, MPH, Borami Shin, MD, and Patric Liang, MD.

RESIDENT TEACHER AWARD Courtney Barrows, MD ISAAC O. MEHREZ, MD, AWARD GEORGE W.B. STARKEY AWARD Voted by residents as the senior Jacqueline Wade, MD Charles Parsons, MD resident who best exemplifies To the third-year resident selected To the faculty member with teaching to other residents. by Mount Auburn Hospital the highest-rated teaching Dr. Barrows (left) receives the surgeons for “Dedication to the evaluations from second-year award from Dr. Charity Glass. highest quality care, honesty, Harvard Medical School students willingness to learn, and a sense in the Core Surgery Clerkship. of humor.”

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Also announced were the second-year residents selected to attend a weeklong course in comparative physiology at MDI Biological Laboratory on the Maine coast, a unique educational and team-building HAROLD BENGLOFF AWARD JOHN L. ROWBOTHAM AWARD experience. The top five ABSITE scorers are invited to participate. Allen Hamdan, MD Thomas Cataldo, MD Voted by residents as the faculty Voted by residents as the MDI BIOLOGICAL member who best exemplifies faculty member who best LABORATORY humanism in teaching. exemplifies excellence in clinical Margaret Berrigan, MD surgical teaching. Betty Liu, MD Kelsey Romatoski, MD PRIMARY CLINICAL Andrew Sanders, MD EXPERIENCE RESIDENT THORACIC SURGERY Lucas Souza-Mota, MD TEACHING AWARDS SERVICE AWARDS Mautin Hundeyin, MD To the intern and PGY-4 with Sayuri Jinadasa, MD, MPH the best performance on the Selected for their dedication to Thoracic Surgery Service. teaching by all Harvard Medical Asish Misra, MD, PhD School students who rotated at Praachi Raje, MD BIDMC Surgery.

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APPOINTED AS: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF NEUROSURGERY

Rafael A. Vega, MD, PhD Dr. Vega is Director of Neurosurgical tumors such as glioblastoma and low-grade gliomas, Oncology at BIDMC. He joined the awake craniotomy with functional brain mapping, laser Department of Surgery in 2019. interstitial thermal therapy, neuroendoscopic surgery, Dr. Vega received his PhD in primary/metastatic spinal tumors, skull base and pituitary chemistry of life processes from tumors, stereotactic radiosurgery, and fluorescence- and Northwestern University and his image-guided neurosurgery. medical degree from the University Dr. Vega has had his research published, often as of Illinois at Chicago. He completed first or senior author, in more than 35 peer-reviewed his neurosurgery residency at publications. He has also had five book chapters Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of published as first author and holds multiple patents. Virginia, which included a research fellowship in neuro- Dr. Vega is on the editorial board of Congress oncology at the University of Virginia in the areas of MRI- Quarterly, the official news magazine of the Congress guided focused ultrasound, drug delivery, and molecular of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), and also serves as the therapeutics (microRNA) in glioblastoma. Following CNS Podcast Chair, moderating a monthly journal club the completion of his residency, Dr. Vega pursued his that includes conversations with the authors and other fellowship in neurosurgical oncology at the University of neurospecialists. He is also a reviewer for Neurosurgery, Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center followed by a clinical Journal of Neuro-Oncology, Journal of Neurosurgical fellowship in functional brain mapping/oncological Anesthesiology, and Surgical Neurology International. neurosurgery at Hôpital Gui de Chauliac in France. In addition, Dr. Vega participates in teaching medical Dr. Vega’s clinical interests include malignant brain students and neurosurgery residents and fellows. bidmc.org/surgery Inside Surgery | Fall 2020 — Page 21 HOME << | >> Selected Publications

COVID-19 Acute Care Surgery, Trauma, and guidance: Design and validation of a fire scenario. Surg Endosc 2020; in press. Barrett CD, Oren-Grinberg A, Chao E, Surgical Critical Care Moraco AH, Martin MJ, Reddy SH, Ilg AM, Barrett CD, Kong YW, Yaffe MB. Influence Cardiac Surgery Jhunjhunwala R, Uribe M, Moore HB, of tranexamic acid on inflammatory Fatima H, Mahmood F, Sehgal S, Moore EE, Baedorf-Kassis EN, Krajewski signaling in trauma. Semin Thromb Hemost Belani K, Sharkey A, Chaudhary O, ML, Talmor DS, Shaefi S, Yaffe MB. Rescue 2020;46(2):183-8. therapy for severe COVID-19 associated Baribeau Y, Matyal R, Khabbaz KR. acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) Lawler SE, Chiocca EA, Cook CH. Artificial intelligence for dynamic with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA): Cytomegalovirus encephalopathy during echocardiographic tricuspid valve A case series. J Trauma Acute Care Surg brain tumor irradiation. Clin Cancer Res analysis: A new tool in echocardiography. 2020; in press. 2020; in press. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2020; in press.

Brat GA, Hersey S, Chhabra K, Gupta A, Ledderose C, Bromberger S, Slubowski CJ, Fatima H, Matyal R, Mahmood F, Scott J. Protecting surgical teams during Sueyoshi K, Junger WG. Frontline Science: Baribeau Y, Khabbaz KR. Ischemic the COVID-19 outbreak: A narrative review P2Y11 receptors support T cell activation mitral regurgitation: To fix or not to fix. and clinical considerations. Ann Surg 2020; by directing mitochondrial trafficking to J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2020; in press. in press. the immune synapse. J Leukoc Biol 2020; Liu DC, Khabbaz KR. Commentary: in press. Fligor SC, Wang S, Allar BG, Tsikis ST, Ore Something in the way they move: Does gait AS, Whitlock AE, Calvillo-Ortiz R, Arndt KR, Robinson K, Hersey S, Narula N. Small speed predict postoperative events Gangadharan SP, Callery MP. Gastrointestinal bowel sigmoid colon fistula resulting from following elective proximal aortic surgery? malignancies and the COVID-19 pandemic: diverticulitis causing an internal hernia. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2020; in press. Evidence-based triage to surgery. J J Gastrointest Surg 2020; in press. Gastrointest Surg 2020; in press. Mahmood E, Matyal R, Mahmood F, Robinson KA, Carroll M, Ward SB, Osman S, Xu X, Sharkey A, Chaudhary O, Karani S, Givi B, Schiff BA, Chinn SB, Clayburgh D, Iyer Chhabra KR, Arinze N, Almedi A, Kaafarani Khabbaz KR. Impact of left atrial NG, Jalisi S, Moore MG, Nathan CA, Orloff H, Smink DS, Kent TS, Aner MM, Brat G. appendage exclusion on short term LA, O’Neill JP, Parker N, Zender C, Morris LGT, Implementing and evaluating a outcomes in isolated coronary artery Davies L. Safety recommendations for multihospital standardized opioid bypass graft surgery. Circulation 2020; evaluation and surgery of the head and curriculum for surgical providers. in press. neck during the COVID-19 pandemic. JAMA J Surg Educ 2020;77(3):621-6. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2020; in press. Vervoort D, Kpodonu J. Cardiac surgery in Robinson KA, Duncan S, Austrie J, Fleishman West Africa: The tipping point. Cardiol Hasselgren PO. The smallpox epidemics in A, Tobias A, Hopwood RA, Brat G. Opioid Young 2020;30(1):148. America in the 1700s and the role of the consumption after gender-affirming surgeons: Lessons to be learned during the mastectomy and two other breast Colon and Rectal Surgery global outbreak of COVID-19. World J Surg surgeries. J Surg Res 2020;251:33-7. Hamid HK, Emile SH, Saber AA, Ruiz-Tovar J, 2020;44:2837-2841. Minas V, Cataldo TE. Laparoscopic-guided Robinson KA, Thiels CA, Stokes S, Duncan S, Ing EB, Xu QA, Salimi A, Torun N. Physician Feranil M, Fleishman A, Cook CH, transversus abdominis plane block for deaths from coronavirus (COVID-19) Nathanson LA, Huang LC, Habermann EB, postoperative pain management in disease. Occup Med (Lond) 2020; in press. Brat GA. 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Naples JG, Ruckenstein MJ, Singh J, Cox BC, peripheral and painful neuropathy. Focus World Neurosurg 2020; in press. Li D. Intratympanic diltiazem-chitosan on the treatment of cardiovascular hydrogel as an otoprotectant against autonomic neuropathy with ACE inhibitors. Maragkos GA, Penumaka A, Ahrendsen JT, cisplatin-induced ototoxicity in a mouse Curr Vasc Pharmacol 2020;18(2):158-71. Salem MM, Nelton EB, Alterman RL. model. Otol Neurotol 2020;41(1):115-22. Factors affecting the diagnostic yield of frame-based stereotactic intracranial biopsies. World Neurosurg 2020; 135:e695-e701. Continued on page 24 > bidmc.org/surgery Inside Surgery | Fall 2020 — Page 23 HOME << | >> < Continued from page 23

Martucci JA, Migonis AM, Rosenblum BI. invasive breast cancer risk in women with Active Surveillance Study (PASS) cohort. Subtalar arthroereisis implantation in LCIS. Ann Surg Oncol 2020;27(3):736-40. J Clin Oncol 2020;38(14):1549-57. acquired neuropathic pes planus: A preliminary report detailing a minimally Thoracic Surgery and Zhang H, Frendl D, Wang Z, Olumi AF. High real-world medication adherence and invasive approach to healing medial Interventional Pulmonology column ulcerations. J Foot Ankle Surg durable clinical benefit in Medicare 2020;59(3):611-5. de Lima A, Vidal B, Kheir F, VanderLaan patients treated with 5 alpha-reductase PA, Mallur PS, Gangadharan SP, Majid A. inhibitors for benign prostatic hyperplasia. Surgical Education Thermoablative techniques for excessive Urol 2020; in press. central airway collapse: An ex vivo pilot Kent TS, Freischlag J, Minter R, Hawn M, study on sheep tracheal tissue. J Vascular and Al-Refaie W, James BC, Eskander M, Chu D. 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Brooks JD, Dash A, Fabrizio MD, Gleave ME, morbidity and mortality after endovascular Kolb S, Liss M, Morgan TM, Thompson IM, aneurysm repair among patients with liver Valero MG, Zabor EC, Park A, Gilbert E, Wagner AA, Tsiatis A, Pingitore A, Nelson PS, dysfunction. J Vasc Surg 2020; in press. Newman A, King TA, Pilewskie ML. The Newcomb LF. 17-gene genomic prostate Tyrer-Cuzick model inaccurately predicts score test results in the Canary Prostate bidmc.org/surgery Inside Surgery | Fall 2020 — Page 24 HOME << | >> Congratulations to Our 2020 Graduates

From left: General Surgery Residency Program graduates (front row): Drs. Jennifer Zhang, Eran Brauner, Christopher Digesu, Mautin Hundeyin, Meredith Baker; (back row): Sayuri Jinadasa, Stephanie Serres, Alton Sutter, Daniel Buitrago, and Courtney Barrows.

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General Surgery Sayuri Jinadasa, MD, MPH Advanced GI and Minimally Minimally Invasive Meredith Baker, MD Fellow, Surgical Critical Invasive Surgery Urologic Surgery Fellow, Pediatric Surgery, Care/Acute Care Surgery, Hung Truong, MD, MS Kolawole Olugbade, MD, MPH Columbia University Irving University of Maryland Breast Surgery Plastic and Medical Center Shock Trauma Isha Emhoff, MD Reconstructive Surgery Courtney Barrows, MD Stephanie Serres, MD, PhD Cardiothoracic Surgery Aesthetic and Fellow, Hepato-Pancreato- Fellow, Breast Surgical Andrea Steely, MD Reconstructive Surgery Biliary Surgery, Cleveland Oncology, Beth Israel Hassan Alnaeem, MD Clinic Deaconess Medical Center Colon and Rectal Surgery Kristina Go, MD Ritwik Grover, MD Eran Brauner, MD Alton Sutter, MD, PhD Endovascular and Operative Microsurgery Fellow, Surgical Critical Fellow, Colorectal Surgery, Ryan P. Cauley, MD, MPH Care, Beth Israel New York University Neurovascular Surgery Deaconess Medical Center Timothy Robinson, MD Surgical Critical Care Jennifer Zhang, MD Sean Hersey, MD Hand/Upper Extremity Daniel Buitrago, MD, MPH Fellow, Breast Surgical Stacey Keith, MD Fellow, Cardiothoracic Oncology, Memorial Sloan David L. Colen, MD Surgery, University of Kettering Cancer Center Interventional Pulmonology Vascular Surgery Miami Hospital Ramsy Abdelghani, MD Peter Soden, MD Sara Zettervall, MD Christopher Digesu, MD Podiatry Muhammad Ali, MD Fellow, Cardiothoracic Amish Dudeja, DPM Tanmay Panchabhai, MD Surgery, Beth Israel Christopher Sullivan, DPM Priya Patel, MD Deaconess Medical Center Advanced Diagnostic Mautin Hundeyin, MD Bronchoscopy Fellow, Surgical Oncology, Muhammad Ehtisham, MD Memorial Sloan Kettering Sameh Hanna, MD Cancer Center Asma Tariq, MD

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f your voice is clear and strong Iyou hardly give it a thought. But if it becomes consistently hoarse or weak, it can soon become a source of serious concern, particularly if your livelihood depends on your voice. There are myriad causes of voice problems, from benign polyps and poor vocal hygiene to laryngeal (voice box) cancer, so anyone with persistent vocal issues should seek Members of the Laryngology team (from left): Ms. Tori Flormann, Dr. Stephanie Teng, evaluation by a specialist. Dr. Pavan Mallur, and Ms. Barbara Wilson Arboleda. The Laryngology section of the Division of Otolaryngology/ other specialists throughout the conference with specialists in Head and Neck Surgery offers Department of Surgery and BIDMC. gastroenterology and thoracic comprehensive evaluation and At BIDMC, patients have surgery to discuss the management behavioral, medical, and surgical access to the latest diagnostic and of patients with motility disorders treatment technologies, such as and laryngopharyngeal reflux. Voice Disorders transnasal esophagoscopy and a In addition, in tandem with • Benign vocal fold conditions: cysts, polyps, KTP laser, with these and many other their speech-language pathology nodules, scars, Reinke’s edema, recurrent procedures performed in the office colleagues, the laryngologists work respiratory papillomatosis setting. The division recently moved with Michael Irwing, MD, the Director • Early-stage laryngeal cancer into a newly renovated clinical of Transgender Medicine at BIDMC, • Vocal fold paralysis/paresis area in the Shapiro Clinical Center, to provide services to transgender • Neurogenic cough providing patients with a more individuals to help them achieve • Paradoxical vocal fold motion attractive, spacious setting in which their goals, including evaluation with • Care for special populations: professional to receive care. voice users, patients with Parkinson’s disease laryngoscopy and stroboscopy, voice or spasmodic dysphonia therapy, and surgical interventions. Airway Disorders Collaboration • Upper airway stenosis (in conjunction with Among the strengths of the BIDMC Professional Voice Program the Complex Airway Program team in the Laryngology program is the faculty’s Dr. Teng has been building BIDMC’s BIDMC Chest Disease Center) high degree of collaboration with Professional Voice Program, Swallowing Disorders (dysphagia) other specialists throughout the which provides assessment and • Hypopharyngeal diverticula medical center. individualized treatment plans for • Cricopharyngeal/upper esophageal For example, Drs. Teng and those who rely on their voices to sphincter issues Mallur are part of the National perform their jobs. As part of this • Laryngopharyngeal reflux Institutes of Health Dystonia Coalition program, whose members include with neurology colleagues Samuel Dr. Mallur and voice-trained speech- Frank, MD, and Luo Lan, MD. They language pathologists Barbara treatment for individuals with all provide treatment for patients Wilson Arboleda, MS, CCC-SLP, and types of voice disorders as well as with spasmodic dystonia, a type of Tori Flormann, MS, CCC-SLP, the swallowing and airway disorders movement disorder affecting the group is conducting outreach events (see sidebar). These services are voice box. to educate voice teachers, voice provided by two fellowship-trained Drs. Teng and Mallur also take students, and others about vocal laryngologists, Pavan Mallur, MD, part in a monthly multidisciplinary health and related topics. and Stephanie Teng, MD, who work in close collaboration with the division’s certified speech- ➔ To schedule an appointment or make a referral, call: 617-632-7500. language pathologists and many To make a referral (only) by e-mail contact: [email protected].

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GENERAL SURGERY: Categorical Interns

Anastasia Stephanie Cohen, MD Dominic Recco, MD Bogdanovski, MD Tufts University School Lewis Katz School Rutgers New Jersey of Medicine of Medicine at Medical School Temple University

Brian Campos, MD Dwight Harris, II, MD Eve Roth, MD Warren Alpert University of Kentucky Harvard Medical School Medical School of College of Medicine Brown University

Sharjeel Chaudhry, MD Darian Hoagland, MD Stephen Wang, MD George Washington University of Virginia Albert Einstein College University School School of Medicine of Medicine of Medicine and Health Sciences Integrated Vascular Surgery Intern Jennifer Pan, MD University of Illinois College of Medicine

GENERAL SURGERY: Preliminary Interns PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY Juan Ascanio, MD Kaimana Chow, MD Universidad de Carabobo Facultad de Ciencias Independent Plastic Surgery Resident de la Salud, Aragua University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Muhammad Faateh, MD Emily Long, MD Lahore Medical and Dental College Integrated Plastic Surgery Resident Kimberley Noij, MD Vanderbilt University School of Medicine VUmc School of Medical Sciences Amer Nassar, MD Adrian Waisman Malaret, MD Independent Plastic Surgery Resident Universidad Central de Venezuela Escuela University of Washington de Medicina, Jose Maria Vargas PODIATRY Iordanis Zakopoulos, MD Kevin Buczkowski, DPM Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Medical School New York College of Podiatric Medicine

NEUROSURGERY Juan Ceja Solorio, DPM Alejandro Enriquez, MD California School of Podiatric Medicine Boston University at Samuel Merritt University

OTOLARYNGOLOGY/HEAD AND NECK SURGERY UROLOGIC SURGERY Victoria Huang, MD Alejandro Abello, MD, MPH Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá Facultad de Medicina Colombia Peter Nagy, MD Yale School of Public Health University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine Joseph Black, MD, PhD University of Florida College of Medicine Continued on page 28 > bidmc.org/surgery Inside Surgery | Fall 2020 — Page 27 HOME << | >>

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Department of Surgery, LMOB-9C 110 Francis Street Boston, MA 02215

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Advanced GI and Minimally Interventional Pulmonology Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery Invasive Surgery Hyun Kim, MD David Jiang, MD Keitaro Nakamoto, MD St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Oregon Health Sciences Center Marshall University Joan C. Edwards Anastasiia Rudkovskaia, MD School of Medicine Geisinger Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Ashley Boustany, MD Breast Surgical Oncology Faisal Shaikh, MD Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery Stephanie Serres, MD, PhD UCLA Medical Center University of Kentucky School of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Sandeep Somalaraju, MD Medicine, Plastic Surgery Cardiothoracic Surgery Lahey Hospital and Medical Center Amy Maselli, MD Christopher Digesu, MD Microsurgery Advanced Diagnostic Bronchoscopy Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Moeezullah Beg, MBBS Plastic Surgery Rece Laney, MD University of Texas Health University of Texas Medical Branch, Anjan Devaraj, MD Surgical Critical Care Galveston Tufts Medical Center Eran Brauner, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Colon and Rectal Surgery Shahzad Khan, MD Jeremy Dressler, MD University of Massachusetts Stephanie Maroney, MD Brown University Memorial Medical Center Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Endovascular and Operative Sidra Raoof, MBBS Vascular Surgery Neurovascular Surgery Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Thomas F. X. O’Donnell, MD Ulas Cikla, MD University Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital Yale University

Hand/Upper Extremity Surgery Rikesh Gandhi, MD Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Swapnil D. Kachare, MD University of Louisville Hospital Brian Schurko, MD Harvard Combined Orthopedic Residency Program

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