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Welcoming New Faculty – Ko Un ‘Clara’ Park, MD

Please join us in welcoming Ko Un ‘Clara’ Park, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Ko Un ‘Clara’ Park, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Breast Surgery
Director of Research, Breast Surgery Network Sites

Dr. Park received her undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Notre Dame and her medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine. She completed general surgery residency training at the Henry Ford Health System and a breast surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is certified by the American Board of Surgery.

Before joining the Brigham, Dr. Park was an assistant professor of surgery at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center James Comprehensive Cancer Center. She developed the robotic breast surgery program and initiated the FDA approved clinical trial evaluating the role of robot-assisted nipple sparing mastectomy. She is an implementation science researcher and is funded by the NCI and the Alliance foundation. She will continue her NCI K08 research titled, “Implementation of operative standards in cancer surgery to improve patient outcomes.”

At the Brigham, Dr. Park will also serve as the director of Research for Breast Surgery Network Sites. In this role, she will review the clinical research portfolios at the Brigham sites and help identify opportunities to expand the clinical trials and research programs to the regional sites.

Dr. Park’s primary clinical focus areas are multidisciplinary breast cancer management, oncoplastic breast surgery and nipple sparing mastectomy.

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Welcoming New Faculty – John C. Wain, Jr., MD

Please join us in welcoming John C. Wain, Jr., MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

John C. Wain, Jr., MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery

Dr. Wain received his undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University and his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College. He completed residency training in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. After a surgical research fellowship at the City of Hope National Medical Center, he completed a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Toronto General Hospital. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.

Before joining the Brigham, Dr. Wain was the chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery and the vice chairman of the Department of Surgery at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center. Previously, he worked at Mass General Hospital, North Shore Medical Center and Newton-Wellesley Hospital. He’s a member of various societies, including the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.

Dr. Wain’s clinical and research interests include airway reconstruction, chest wall resection and reconstruction, the surgical management of advanced stage thoracic neoplasms, epigenetic alterations in lung cancer, the inflammatory response to pulmonary injury and the physiology of respiration. 

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Department of Surgery Faculty Members Among Boston’s Top Doctors 2023

61 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.

Colon and Rectal Surgery
Ronald Bleday, MD
Joel Goldberg, MD, MPH
James Yoo, MD

Otolaryngology
Donald Annino, MD
Regan Bergmark, MD 
Thomas L. Carroll, MD
Carleton E. Corrales, MD
Laura A. Goguen, MD
Stella Lee, MD
Alice Z. Maxfield, MD
Anthony Prince, MD
Eleni Rettig, MD
Rachel E. Roditi, MD
Jennifer Shin, MD, SM
Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD

Plastic Surgery
Matthew Carty, MD
Yoon Chun, MD
Dennis Orgill, MD, PhD
Andrea Pusic, MD
Christian Sampson, MD (Hand Surgery)
Simon Talbot, MD

Surgery
Stanley Ashley, MD
Monica Bertagnolli, MD
Thomas Clancy, MD
Gerard Doherty, MD
Laura S. Dominici, MD
Hassan Khalil, MD
Tari King, MD
Sayeed Malek, MD
Elizabeth Mittendorf, MD, PhD
Faina Nakhlis, MD
Chandrajit Raut, MD, MSc
Esther Rhei, MD
Douglas Smink, MD, MPH
Ali Tavakkoli, MD
Ashley Vernon, MD

Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery 
Raphael Bueno, MD
Christopher Ducko, MD
Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD
Hari Mallidi, MD
M. Blair Marshall, MD
Ciaran J. McNamee, MD
Steven Mentzer, MD
Daniel E. Rinewalt, MD
Matthew Rochefort, MD
Scott Swanson, MD
George Tolis, MD
Jon Wee, MD
Abby White, DO
Daniel Wiener, MD

Urology
Steven Chang, MD
Martin Kathrins, MD
Adam Kibel, MD
Mark Preston, MD
Graeme Steele, MD
Quoc-Dien Trinh, MD

Vascular Surgery
Michael Belkin, MD
Edwin Gravereaux, MD
Matthew Menard, MD
Louis Nguyen, MD, MBA, MPH
Charles Ozaki, MD