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Ali Tavakkoli, MD, Promoted to Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School

Ali Tavakkoli, MD
Chief, Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery
Co-Director, Center for Weight Management and Wellness
Program Director, Advanced Minimally Invasive Fellowship
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Tavakkoli is a minimally invasive and bariatric surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he serves as the chief of the Division of General and GI Surgery, co-director of the Center for Weight Management and Wellness and director of the minimally invasive surgery fellowship.

He received his medical degree from London Hospital Medical College in the UK and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England before moving to Boston, where he completed both a surgical residency and fellowship in advanced minimally invasive surgery at the Brigham.

Dr. Tavakkoli leads an active NIH-funded research group that studies the mechanisms of diabetes resolution after gastric bypass surgery, focusing on the role of intestinal metabolism and portal signaling. His group’s goals are to develop less invasive alternatives to surgery that can replicate the metabolic benefits of surgery without the risks.

He is an active member of many professional societies, including serving as a member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons, president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Recorder for the New England Surgical Society, and Board of Directors of the Fellowship Council.  He served as an associate editor for the journal of Digestive Disease and Sciences for over a decade and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery.  He has been recognized for his dedication to surgical education with several teaching and mentorship awards throughout his career.

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Department of Surgery Faculty Members Among Boston’s Top Doctors 2025

76 Department of Surgery faculty members have been named “Top Doctors” by Boston Magazine this year.  Congratulations to the following providers for being recognized as the best in their respective fields.

Bariatric Surgery
Neil D. Ghushe, MD

Colon & Rectal Surgery
Ronald Bleday, MD
Joel E. Goldberg, MD
Jennifer L. Irani, MD
Nelya Melnitchouk, MD, MSc
James Yoo, MD

Oral Medicine
Nathaniel S. Treister, DMD, DMSc
Herve Y. Sroussi, DMD, PhD
Sook-Bin Woo, DMD, MMSc

Otolaryngology
Donald J. Annino Jr, MD, DMD
Regan W. Bergmark, MD
Thomas L. Carroll, MD
Carleton E. Corrales, MD
Christopher D. Dwyer, MD
Laura A. Goguen, MD
Stella Lee, MD
Alice Z. Maxfield, MD
Anthony A. Prince, MD
Eleni M. Rettig, MD
Rachel E. Roditi, MD
Rosh K. Sethi, MD, MPH
Jennifer J. Shin, MD, SM
Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD

Plastic Surgery
Matthew J. Carty, MD
Yoon Sun Chun, MD
Jessica Erdmann-Sager, MD
Lydia A. Helliwell, MD
Dennis P. Orgill, MD
Andrea L. Pusic, MD
Christian E. Sampson, MD (Hand Surgery)
Simon G. Talbot, MD

Surgery
Stanley W. Ashley, MD
Nancy L. Cho, MD
Gerard M. Doherty, MD
Ryan R. Gerry, MD
Kamal M. Itani, MD
Tari A. King, MD
Jason B. Liu, MD
Sayeed K. Malek, MD
Ko Un Clara Park, MD
Esther Rhei, MD
Eric G. Sheu, MD, PhD
Douglas Smink, MD, MPH
David Spector, MD
Ali Tavakkoli, MD
Ashley H. Vernon, MD

Surgical Oncology
Thomas E. Clancy, MD
Laura S. Dominici, MD
Mark Fairweather, MD
Elizabeth J Lilley, MD
Elizabeth A. Mittendorf, MD, PhD, MHCM
Faina Nakhlis, MD
Matthew A. Nehs, MD
Chandrajit P. Raut, MD, MSc
Jiping Wang, MD, PhD
Charles H. Yoon, MD, PhD

Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery
Raphael Bueno, MD
Amy E. Hackmann, MD
Ashraf Sabe, MD
Thoralf M. Sundt III, MD
George Tolis Jr, MD

Thoracic Surgery
Christopher Ducko, MD
Hassan A. Khalil, MD
Ciaran J. McNamee, MD
Steven J. Mentzer, MD
Matthew M. Rochefort, MD
Scott J. Swanson, MD
John W. Wain, MD
Jon O. Wee, MD
Daniel C. Wiener, MD

Vascular
Matthew J. Eagleton, MD
Edwin C. Gravereaux, MD
Matthew T. Menard, MD
Louis L. Nguyen, MD, MPH, MBA
C. Keith Ozaki, MD
Marcus E. Semel, MD

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Gerard Doherty, MD, Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine at Uppsala University

Gerard M. Doherty, MD
Surgeon-in-Chief and Crowley Family Endowed Chair of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Surgeon-in-Chief, Mass General Brigham Cancer
Moseley Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Doherty is a specialist in surgery, with a particular focus on endocrine surgery. Since 2016, Dr. Doherty has held the Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and serves as the Crowley Family Endowed Chair and surgeon-in-chief at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute.

Dr. Doherty began his research in the 1990s in the laboratory, studying interferon gamma, cytokines and TNF-alpha in tumors. Alongside his clinical career, he has transitioned to clinical and translational studies of endocrine tumors, particularly pancreatic NETs, adrenal cortical cancers, hyperparathydoidism and MEN1.

He is involved in the work of consensus statements and guidelines in endocrine tumors and has held leadership roles in many professional associations, including president of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES) and president of the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons (IAES). For more than 20 years, he has collaborated closely with researchers at the Faculty of Medicine of Uppsala University, enabling visiting professorships at both Harvard and the University of Michigan, thereby enabling scientific collaboration on clinical materials for rare diseases.