Reza Askari, MD, has been appointed BWH Surgery Clerkship director. In this important role, he will oversee the Core Surgery rotation during the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Primary Clinical Experience.
Reza Askari, MD
Reza Askari, MD Associate Surgeon, Division of Trauma, Burn, Surgical & Critical Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Surgical Critical Care Director, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Program Director, Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Reza Askari, MD, is an associate surgeon in the Division of Trauma, Burn, Surgical & Critical Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and instructor in surgery at Harvard Medical School.
He received his medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine and completed a General Surgery Residency at George Washington University Medical Center. Dr. Askari completed a Trauma and Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
Dr. Askari has been serving as assistant Surgery Clerkship director since 2014. He has been widely recognized for educational efforts and received numerous teaching awards from both Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Department of Surgery at BWH, including recipient for excellence in tutorial facilitation from HMS for academic years 2011-2015; the 2012-2013 faculty teaching award for medical student teaching by the BWH Department of Surgery for the surgery clerkship; and was the repeat recipient of the Richard E. Wilson Award from the DOS in 2013 and 2016.
He is an active member of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma and holds multiple committee roles for the Surgical Infection Society. Dr. Askari is active in clinical research in the areas of critical care, trauma and acute care surgery, with a primary focus on surgical infections particularly in patients with immunosuppression.
His clinical interests include trauma, critical care, surgical nutrition and antibiotic stewardship in surgery.
Jennifer J. Shin, MD, has been appointed vice chair of Academic Affairs at Longwood Campus for the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Otolaryngology. She will have responsibility for Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Shin will also serve on the HMS Executive Committee and help oversee promotions and academic advancement of our faculty.
Jennifer J. Shin, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Otolaryngology Associate Professor of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School
Jennifer J. Shin, MD, is an associate professor in the Division of Otolaryngology. She is a graduate of Harvard Radcliffe College and Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency and fellowship training in the Harvard Program, and was a fellow of the National Institute of Health and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She also holds a degree in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Dr. Shin has a longstanding interest in evidence-based practice, and serves as Chair of the Outcomes Research and Evidence-Based Medicine Leadership Group for the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation. She also served as co-chair of the expert panel convened by the Academy to develop their national Clinical Consensus Statement on Pediatric Chronic Rhinosinusitis and as vice chair of the Clinical Practice Guideline on Otitis Media with Effusion, a multidisciplinary effort supported by the American Academy of Family Practice, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and American Academy of Pediatrics. She also chairs one of the specialty’s seven Clinical Advisory Committees, which are joint ventures between the American Board of Otolaryngology, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and subspecialty societies such as the American Laryngological Association and the American Neurotology Society.
Her first book, Evidence-Based Otolaryngology (2008), was among the publisher’s most accessed works and has had over 42,000 accessions.
