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Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD, Named Division Chief of Otolaryngology at Brigham Health

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Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD

Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD, has been named the new chief of Otolaryngology at Brigham Health. He has served as an associate surgeon and director of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center (DF/BWCC) since 2016.

Dr. Uppaluri completed his medical degree and doctorate in genetics at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN. He trained in Otolaryngology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. He remained there as a faculty member for 16 years before moving to Boston with his wife, Chitra Uppaluri, MD, and three children in 2016.

Dr. Uppaluri, a leader in his field, has a deep understanding of head and neck tumor biology as well as integration of radiation, chemotherapy and surgical treatment modalities, including minimally invasive transoral laser microsurgery and endoscopic and open approaches to anterior skull base pathologies. He has been the primary investigator of clinical trials integrating small molecule and immunotherapeutics in the surgical management of head and neck cancers. He also leads a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded laboratory, focused on basic and translational approaches to head and neck cancers.

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Welcoming New Faculty – Lydia A. Helliwell, MD

Please join us in welcoming Lydia A. Helliwell, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

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Lydia A. Helliwell, MD

Lydia A. Helliwell, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School

Lydia A. Helliwell, MD, is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, MA and received her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA. She completed a Plastic Surgery Residency in the Harvard Plastic Surgery Combined Residency Program and a fellowship in Orthopedic Hand Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Her clinical and research interests include: hand surgery, peripheral nerve surgery, microsurgery, lower extremity reconstruction, brachial plexus injuries and medical education.

 

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Scott A. Shikora, MD, Receives Presidential Award from the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders

Scott A. Shikora, MD, was one of six international surgeons to receive the Presidential Award at the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorder 22nd World Congress held in London, UK.
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Scott Shikora, MD

Scott Shikora, MD
Director, Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Scott A. Shikora, MD, is the director of the Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Shikora received his medical degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed both a residency in General Surgery and a fellowship in Hyperalimentation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Shikora is annually named one of Boston’s Top Doctor by Boston Magazine.

Dr. Shikora is both a past president and a former executive council member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He is an associate editor of Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases and the current editor-in-chief of Obesity Surgery. Dr. Shikora has authored numerous book chapters and journal publications and has made hundreds of presentations internationally on bariatric surgery topics.

His clinical and research interests in minimally invasive bariatric and general surgery, neuromodulation and new surgical technologies.