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

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.

Jon O. Wee, MD, Named the Macricostas Family Endowed Scholar in Thoracic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Jon O. Wee, MD
Section Chief, Esophageal Surgery
Director of Robotics, Division of Thoracic Surgery
Co-Director of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Jon Wee is the esophageal surgery section chief, director of Robotics in Thoracic Surgery, and co-director of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also an associate program director for Thoracic Surgery and is an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Wee received his medical degree from the Duke University School of Medicine and completed his surgical training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He then went on to complete his cardiothoracic surgery training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is board certified in surgery and thoracic surgery.

Dr. Wee’s clinical interest is in minimally invasive approaches to thoracic diseases. These include minimally invasive and robotic esophagectomy, lobectomy, thymectomy and mediastinal resection for thoracic malignancies.  In addition, he treats benign esophageal disease such as gastro-esophageal reflux disease, giant paraesophageal hernias, diverticulum, etc. He performs POEM procedures for achalasia, as well as sympathectomy for hyperhidrosis and endoluminal therapies such as PDT, laser, and stents for palliation. His research interest is in the use of minimally invasive techniques to decrease pain, improve recovery and improve ultimate outcomes.