FALL 2014 Volume 4, No.3 News from the Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Department of Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center INSIDE SURGERY Going Global: BIDMC Surgery Worldwide Page 4 IN THIS ISSUE 2 Save the Date 18 Harvard Medical School Promotions 3 Message from the Chairman New Transplant Chief 20 Alumni Spotlight — David Linehan, MD 4 BIDMC Surgery Worldwide FALL 2014 21 New Faculty Volume 4, No. 3 9 Graduation 2014 22 Annual Teaching Awards 10 BIDMC Surgery: Inside Surgery is published by the Office 150 Years of Leadership 23 News Briefs of the Chairman of the Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Department of 15 New Trainees Welcomed 26 Selected Faculty Publications Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess 16 Making a Difference: Martin and 28 White Coat Ceremony Medical Center for faculty, trainees, Diane Trust staff, alumni, affiliates, and friends. The mission of the Save the Date Department of Surgery: • Provide care of the very highest quality September 18, 6-9 PM November 5 • Improve health through Department of Surgery “Food is Surgical Grand Rounds innovation and discovery Medicine” Gala to support the Silen Visiting Professor of Surgery: • Prepare future leaders in Greater Boston Food Bank Melina Kibbe, MD American surgery Location: Greater Boston Food Bank, Northwestern University • Serve our communities with 70 South Bay Ave., Boston “The Challenges and Rewards sensitivity and compassion Tickets and information: of Translational Research: gbfb.org/events One Surgeon’s Journey” Chairman, Surgery Elliot Chaikof, MD, PhD October 8 November 21-22 Surgical Grand Rounds New England Robotics Course Vice Chairman, Surgery (Communications) Salzman Visiting Professor of Vascular in Urology Surgery: Bruce Perler, MD Location: BIDMC Carl J. Shapiro Simulation Allen Hamdan, MD Johns Hopkins University and Skills Center, Boston, MA Director of Surgery Communications “Evidence-Based Medicine and the Registration and information: Editor/Writer [email protected]; Contemporary Management of Carotid Hilary Bennett Artery Disease: After the Randomized 617-667-2898 Trials, the Controversy Continues” Please forward comments, news February 11, 2015 items, and requests to be added to Surgical Grand Rounds October 15 or removed from the mailing list to: Surgical Grand Rounds Clowes Visiting Professor of Surgical Editor, Inside Surgery, Beth Israel Research: Geoffrey C. Gurtner, MD Goldwyn Visiting Professor of Plastic Deaconess Medical Center, Department Surgery: Lawrence Gottlieb, MD Stanford University of Surgery, LMOB-9C, 110 Francis St., University of Chicago “The Art of the Practical: Translating Boston, MA 02215. “Reconstructive Microsurgery” Scientific Discovery into the Real World” E-mail: surgerycommunications@bidmc. harvard.edu October 22 Surgical Grand Rounds are held from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Joslin Diabetes Center Surgical Grand Rounds Tel: 617-632-8384 Auditorium, One Joslin Place, Boston, MA. Distinguished Visiting Professor of For a listing of all 2014-2015 Surgical bidmc.org/surgery Endocrine Surgery: Edwin L. Kaplan, MD Grand Rounds, go to: bidmc.org/surgery. University of Chicago “Romancing the Shield: Thyroid Surgery from the Ancients through Cover photo credits: top left and bottom the Atomic Age” right, Dr. Jordan Pyda; top right, Dr. Daniel Jethanemest (NYU); bottom left, stock photo. Inside Surgery — Page 2 bidmc.org/surgery Message from the Chairman he influential book by University of Pennsylvania lives. We are all extremely grateful for their Tbusiness professor Adam Grant, “Give and Take: contributions and the examples they set. Why Helping Others Drives Our Success,” provides This issue also acknowledges the many examples of how “givers” — people who are 150th anniversary of the Department of Surgery and generous with their time, talents, and resources without its pioneering leaders who helped shape the landscape expectation of personal gain — achieve extraordinary of American surgery. We also are proud to highlight results in business and in life. the many accomplishments of our current faculty and In this issue of Inside Surgery, we are pleased to trainees, who are living out our founders’ legacy of tell the stories of some of our own givers: faculty and excellence each and every day. trainees who care for underserved, impoverished patients around the globe, and longtime BIDMC friends Martin and Diane Trust, who gave very generously to create a Career Development Chair in Surgery. While each of their stories is different, their motivations for giving are remarkably similar — to help others live better, healthier Elliot Chaikof, MD, PhD Dr. Robert A. Fisher Joins BIDMC as Chief of Transplant Surgery ollowing a national search, As a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded F Robert A. Fisher, MD, joined investigator for some 15 years, he has pursued basic, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical translational, and clinical studies in the areas of Center on September 1 as Chief of hepatocyte transplantation for fulminate hepatic failure, the Division of Transplant Surgery as well as living donor liver transplantation and the and the multidisciplinary BIDMC treatment of liver cancer. Dr. Fisher currently serves as Transplant Institute. principal investigator for the NIH-funded Adult to Adult Previously, Dr. Fisher was the H. M. Lee Professor Living Donor Liver Transplantation study. of Surgery at the Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Dr. Fisher has published more than 200 peer- Commonwealth University. Dr. Fisher served as Director reviewed publications and book chapters, and serves of the Liver Transplant Program and Director of on the editorial boards of Liver Transplantation, Transplant Research at the Hume-Lee Transplant Center Transplantation Proceedings, and the World Journal at the Medical College of Virginia, one of the largest of Transplantation, among other journals. He also transplant programs in the Southeast. holds leadership positions in the American Society of A native of Texas, Dr. Fisher received his BS degree Transplant Surgeons, the Cell Transplantation Society, from Texas A&M University and his MD from Baylor and the American Society of Transplantation. College of Medicine. He completed a residency in BIDMC Surgery has long been a leader in the field General Surgery at Case Western Reserve University, of transplant surgery. The work of luminaries in the and was a member of the United States Naval Medical field such as Anthony Monaco, MD, formerly Chief Corps, in which he served as Fleet Surgeon for of Transplant Surgery at New England Deaconess the super-carrier USS Forrestal. After completing a Hospital and later at BIDMC, and the late Fritz Bach, fellowship in transplant surgery at the University of MD, led to key advances that improved the outcomes Cincinnati, he joined the Medical College of Virginia, of organ recipients. New England’s first liver transplant where he was a member of the surgical faculty for more was performed in 1983 at New England Deaconess than two decades. Hospital, and New England’s first living-donor liver transplant was conducted at BIDMC in 1998. bidmc.org/surgery Inside Surgery — Page 3 GOINGBIDMC Surgery GLOBAL Worldwide The Department of Surgery’s mission is to serve its communities with sensitivity and compassion, and provide care of the highest quality. Faculty and trainees are fulfilling this mission not only in Boston and surrounding communities but also at underserved regions around the globe — in Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America, India, and Southeast Asia. In the past two years alone, dozens of faculty members and trainees in the Department of Surgery have traveled long distances to often-remote regions, and frequently at their own expense, to share their expertise with local providers and deliver much-needed surgical care to patients. Meanwhile, here in Boston, others are engaged in research aimed at improving access to surgical care for millions worldwide. Here are some of their stories: elena Heman-Ackah, MD, of her mentor, Tom Roland, MD, SMBA, Medical Director who for many years had been of Otology, Neurotology, and teaching attending surgeons Audiology, “always wanted to be at a hospital in Kampala to involved in humanitarian efforts.” perform basic ear surgeries. Last While in college, she volunteered January, Dr. Heman-Ackah joined AFRICA in a clinic in Ghana, and returned Dr. Roland at Mulago Hospital there as a medical student to in Kampala for a full week, “Here we rely on CT scans and participate in efforts to screen teaching senior residents to perform other technologies; there, where newborns for sickle cell disease. advanced ear operations, assisting they lack some of the latest During her neurotology in busy clinics, and giving lectures. technologies we take for granted, fellowship training at New York “In the OR, my goal was to they rely on their knowledge of University, Dr. Heman-Ackah do as little of each procedure as anatomy. This experience taught me started thinking about doing possible so the residents could do that you can do a lot with a little.” mission work in Uganda after them themselves after I was gone,” While Dr. Heman-Ackah spent hearing about the experiences says Dr. Heman-Ackah. “I talked just a week in Uganda, “It was them through each case and my remarkable to see the residents’ thought processes, asking questions progression even during the course along the way so we could discuss of the week,” she says. “We started each step.” Describing her approach, Sunday night and every day, all day, Dr. Heman-Ackah quotes the proverb, “Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.” Throughout her stay, the residents impressed Dr. Heman- Ackah with their insightfulness and in-depth knowledge of anatomy. Sunset from Murchison National Park in Uganda. (Photos on this page by Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. Dr. Daniel Jethanemest, NYU.) Inside Surgery — Page 4 bidmc.org/surgery we were in the OR, in clinic, or in lectures. As one resident said at the end of the week, ‘This was like Otology Boot Camp!’” Dr.