Author: Department of Surgery

Stephanie Nitzshke, MD, has been named medical director of the Burn Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Stephanie Nitzschke, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Trauma, Burn, Surgical & Critical Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Medical Director, Burn Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Stephanie Nitzschke, MD, is an acute care surgeon, trauma surgeon and surgical intensivist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and instructor in surgery at Harvard Medical School. She is a graduate of Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood, IL and completed a General Surgery Residency at INOVA Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, VA. Dr. Nitzschke completed a Burn Surgery Fellowship at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research in Fort Sam Houston, TX and a Trauma & Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.

Dr. Nitzschke is an active participant in resident and medical student education. Her research interests include clinical outcomes for burn and trauma patients. She has authored over 15 peer-reviewed manuscripts, chapters and presented 20 abstracts and lectures regionally and nationally concerning surgical care.

Bohdan Pomahac, MD, has been appointed the inaugural Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Distinguished Chair in Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

 

Bohdan Pomahac, MD
Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Distinguished Chair in Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Director, Plastic Surgery Transplantation, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Bohdan Pomahac, MD, was born and raised in the Czech Republic where he graduated from Palacky University School of Medicine. He trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in General Surgery and completed a fellowship in the Harvard Plastic Surgery Program.

Dr. Pomahac established the Plastic Surgery Transplantation Program at BWH, one of the world’s leading centers in face and vascularized composite tissue allotransplantation (VCA). As a pioneer in the field of VCA transplantation, he led the teams that performed the second partial face transplant and the first three full face transplant procedures in the United Stated. In 2011, the team performed the first successful bilateral upper extremity transplantation in the Northeast. Under Dr. Pomahac’s leadership, the BWH VCA transplant team has performed a number of additional face and hand transplants, and expanded research protocols to include lower extremity and abdominal wall transplantation.

Dr. Pomahac’s research team is currently working on implementation of immunosuppression minimization strategies in clinical trials, development of technology to extend the viability of tissues and other research topics related to VCA transplantation and plastic surgery. His clinical interests include facial reconstruction, reconstruction of oncologic defects including breast, esthetic surgery and microsurgery.

Stephanie A. Caterson, MD, associate surgeon in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School has been awarded the Bernard Lown Award for Excellence in Teaching at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

About the Bernard Lown Award for Excellence in Teaching 

The Bernard Lown Award for Excellence in Teaching at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) was established in January 2010 to celebrate physicians who are outstanding clinical teachers.  The award has been named to honor Bernard Lown, MD, who was a senior physician at BWH, professor of cardiology emeritus at Harvard School of Public Health, and the founder of the Lown Cardiovascular Center and Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation.

Dr. Lown is a gifted clinician, a renowned bedside teacher and a research pioneer.  He co-founded with Evgeni Chazov, MD, of the former Soviet Union, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), and in 1985, they were co-recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of IPPNW.  Dr. Lown has been five times named master teacher of the American College of Cardiology and has been selected honorary member of a number of medical and cardiac societies around the world.

The Lown Teaching Award recognizes the very significant role that education plays in carrying out the BWH mission and the Institution’s deep commitment to the next generation of clinicians. The awardees are selected based on nominations from their HMS students and colleagues, in celebration of teaching excellence, innovation, patient-centered teaching and their ability to inspire.