Category: New Faculty

Please join us in welcoming Mohamad Hussain, MD, PhD, RPVI, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Mohamad Hussain, MD, PhD, RPVI
Associate Surgeon, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Dr. Hussain graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a BSc in medical sciences. He obtained his medical degree from the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University. He completed a vascular surgery residency and a PhD in clinical epidemiology and health services research through the Surgeon Scientist Training Program at the University of Toronto. He also completed a cardiovascular research fellowship at the Brigham. 

Dr. Hussain has over 50 manuscript publications in journals such as Circulation, J Am Coll Cardiol, and JAMA Surgery and over 70 research presentations/published abstracts. He has received several research grants/awards from institutions such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the European Society for Cardiology (ESC). He is also a dedicated teacher committed to the learning of trainees. He has taught ATLS to over 400 physicians in 30 courses and was honored with an ATLS teaching award.

Dr. Hussain’s research interests include the study of vascular diseases using observational epidemiology, health services research, prospective clinical trials and knowledge translation. He also has a special clinical interest in thoracic outlet syndrome surgery.

Please join us in welcoming William Boysen, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

William Boysen, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Urology

Dr. Boysen graduated from Amherst College and obtained his medical degree from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed a urology residency at the University of Chicago Medical Center and a fellowship in complex genitourinary reconstruction and cancer survivorship at Duke University Medical Center.

He is board eligible in urology and a member of the American Urological Association (AUA) and the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons (GURS).

Dr. Boysen’s clinical and research interests include all aspects of reconstructive urology: urethral reconstruction, genitourinary trauma, gender affirmation surgery and prosthetic urology. He is particularly interested in the care of cancer survivors and managing the long-term side effects of their life saving treatments.

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

John Young, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Thoracic Surgery

Dr. Young graduated from Harvard University and obtained his medical degree from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He completed a general surgery residency at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a cardiovascular and thoracic surgery fellowship at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He most recently completed a minimally invasive thoracic surgery fellowship at the Brigham. He is board certified in general surgery.

In 2007, Dr. Young was an American Gastroenterological Association student research fellow at the Brigham in the lab of Stanley W. Ashley, MD, and Ali Tavakkoli, MD.

Dr. Young’s research interests include immunology, lung transplantation and thoracic oncology. His clinical areas of interest include all aspects of adult general thoracic surgery, end-stage lung disease, lung transplantation, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), as well as utilization of the robotic surgical platform.