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Incoming Interns for AY 2025-2026

We are pleased to report that this year’s residency match results are in. Here are the first-year residents who will be joining our surgical residencies this June.

Categorical General Surgery – Dr. Stephanie Nitzschke, Program Director

  • Fares, Sami – Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
  • Kristo, Angela – University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
  • Schiazza, Alexis – Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Sienko, Peter – University of Michigan Medical School
  • Ukhuedoba, Ikhianosen – Frank H Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
  • Wong, Paul – University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
  • Wu, Victoria – Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
  • Yang, Victor – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Zimmerman, Talia – George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Preliminary General Surgery – Dr. Stephanie Nitzschke, Program Director

  • Braun, Maxime – University of Connecticut School of Medicine
  • El-Najjar, Dany – Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Ilkhani, Saba – Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
  • Liu, Eileen – Boston University School of Medicine
  • Puder, Jonathan – Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine,
  • Dogar, Mariam – Harvard Medical School [IR]
  • Sim, Nathan – Wayne State University School of Medicine [IR]

Thoracic Integrated I – 6 – Dr. Michael Jaklitsch, Program Director

  • Davis, Hannah – Indiana University School of Medicine [thoracic surgery]
  • Zamirpour, Siavash – University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine [cardiac surgery]

Harvard Plastic Surgery – Dr. Kyle Eberlin, Program Director; Dr. Lydia Helliwell, Associate Program Director/BWH Site Director

  • Emovon, Emmanuel – Duke University School of Medicine
  • Harish, Varsha – Georgetown University School of Medicine
  • Lee, Daniela – Harvard Medical School
  • Yessaillian, Andrea – University of California San Diego School of Medicine

Harvard Medical School / Mass Eye and Ear / Mass General Brigham Program in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery – Dr. Alice Maxfield, Associate Program Director/BWH Site Director

  • Abdulbaki, Hasan – University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
  • Carlson, Ryan – University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Fleseriu, Cara – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • Telischi, Julia – University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
  • Zhao, Maryann – Harvard Medical School

Oral Medicine – Program Director, Dr. Piamkamon Vacharotayangul

  • Dadlani, Sakshi – New York University School of Dental Medicine
  • Gaitonde, Stuti – Goa Dental College and Hospital
  • De Francia, Mhary Grace – University of Washington

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Faculty Promotions and Appointments

The following faculty members were recently appointed at Harvard Medical School.

Omar Kudsi, MD, MBA, as assistant professor of surgery.

Ko Un Park, MD, as assistant professor of surgery.

Fatima Wilder, MD, MPH, as assistant professor of surgery.

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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.