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2023 Final Service Conference and Graduation Awards

The following recipients were recently honored with awards at the Final Service Conference.

Surgery Class of ’63 Scholar – Frances Hu, MD, MSc

Murray – Simonian Award – Megan Sulciner, MD, and Charles Serhan, PhD

Surgical Oncology Research Award – Megan Sulciner, MD

PBB Scholar Award (This award is the highest ABSITE score and comes with a $500 award) – Alexander Ordoobadi, MD

Medical Student Teaching Awards

PGY1     John Gaspich, MD

PGY2     Orly Farber, MD, and Joshua Roshal, MD

PGY3     Alex Ordoobadi, MD

PGY4     Liz Yates, MD

PGY5     Joshua Jolissaint, MD, MSc (The Robert T. Osteen Award for Medical Student Education in Surgery)

Edward Kwasnik Award – Sourav Bose, MD, MSc

Christine Weeks Schofield Award – Jordan Forte, MD

Grant Rodkey Award – Sourav Bose, MD, MSc

Vollman Award (This award is voted by the faculty at Faulkner Hospital) – Alex Ordoobadi, MD

Star Thrower Award (This award is given by the administrative chiefs to the resident who has gone above and beyond) – Christine Wu, MD

Francis D. Moore Award (This award is voted on by junior residents and presented to a senior resident) – Adam Fields, MD

Donald J. Matson Award (This award is voted on by all the house staff and presented to a faculty member) – Nakul Raykar, MD, MPH

Richard E. Wilson Award (This award is voted on by chief residents and presented to a faculty member) – Naomi Shimizu, MD

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Welcoming New Faculty – Abdelrahman A. Nimeri, MD, FACS, FASMBS

Please join us in welcoming Abdelrahman A. Nimeri, MD, FACS, FASMBS, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Abdelrahman A. Nimeri, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Associate Surgeon, Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery
Director, Bariatric Surgery, Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery

Dr. Nimeri received his medical degree from Al-Azhar University School of Medicine in Cairo, Egypt. He completed general surgery training at Huron Hospital in the Cleveland Clinic Health System and fellowship training in minimally invasive and bariatric surgery at Washington University in St. Louis. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery with a focus practice designation in bariatric surgery and the American Board of Obesity Medicine.

Before joining the Brigham, Dr. Nimeri worked as an associate professor of surgery at the University of North Carolina and Wake Forrest University School of Medicine. He was the program director of the MIS Bariatric Fellowship Program and section chief of Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery at Carolinas Medical Center/Atrium Health, as well as medical director at Atrium Health Weight Management and chair of the Health Disparity Subcommittee in the Department of Surgery at Atrium Health.

Dr. Nimeri serves as the secretary/treasurer for the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO) and is a member of the editorial board of the Obesity Surgery Journal of IFSO, as well as their associate editor. He is a reviewer of various journals, including the International Journal of Obesity and Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, and a member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (FASMBS) and IFSO.

Dr. Nimeri’s clinical and research interests include mechanism of action and outcomes of bariatric surgery, health disparity in obesity care, surgical quality and surgical education.

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Welcoming New Faculty – Ryan R. Gerry, MD, MPH, FACS

Please join us in welcoming Ryan R. Gerry, MD, MPH, FACS, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Ryan R. Gerry, MD, MPH, FACS
Associate Surgeon, Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery

Dr. Gerry received his undergraduate degree in biology at Macalester College and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He also holds a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. He received general surgery residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Upon completion of residency at the Brigham, Dr. Gerry spent time as a general surgeon in Anchorage, Alaska performing the breadth of general surgery, including bread and butter general surgery, colorectal surgery, endoscopy, pediatric surgery and vascular surgery. For six years, he was the trauma medical director at Platte Valley Medical Center, where he also served as the chief of Surgery. Most recently,
Dr. Gerry was the medical director of general surgery at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital, a 19-bed critical access hospital in the rural central coast of California. He currently works as a general surgery consultant to MD Review and as a general surgery medical expert with COPIC malpractice insurance. He has performed over 5,000 surgeries in the past 11 years. 

His clinical interests include hernia surgery and abdominal wall reconstruction, gallbladder surgery, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery.  His academic and research interests include rural general surgery, surgical education and minimally invasive techniques in surgery.