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Welcoming New Faculty – James S. Rosoff, MD

Please join us in welcoming James S. Rosoff, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

James S. Rosoff, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Urology

Dr. Rosoff received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College. He completed resident training in urology at the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and a fellowship in urologic oncology at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Before coming to the Brigham, Dr. Rosoff worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Urology at the Yale School of Medicine and most recently, as an attending urological surgeon at the Tallwood Urology and Kidney Institute in St. Vincent’s Medical Center. Dr. Rosoff is board certified by the American Board of Urology and is a member of the American Urological Association.

Dr. Rosoff’s clinical and research interests focus on the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer, kidney cancer and bladder cancer; MRI fusion prostate biopsies; the medical and surgical management of BPH; as well as the treatment and prevention of kidney stones.

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2022 Final Service Conference and Graduation Awards

The following recipients were recently honored with awards at the Final Service Conference.

Student Teaching Awards          

  • PGY 1: Sarah Tsou, MD, and Dan Hoffman, MD
  • PGY 2: Sangki Oak, MD
  • PGY 3: Kerri McKie, MD
  • PGY 4: Karan Chhabra, MD
  • PGY 5: Sasha Mahvi, MD (the Robert T. Osteen Award for Medical Student Education in Surgery)

    Surgery Class of ’63 Scholar: Sourav Bose, MD

PBB Scholar Award: Sasha Mahvi, MD, and Katherine He, MD

Grant Rodkey Award (VA Hospital Award): Lily Saadat, MD, and Laura Piechura, MD

Christine Weeks Schofield Award (South Shore Hospital Award): Alex Ordoobadi, MD

Edward Kwasnik Award (South Shore Hospital Award): Joshua Jolissaint, MD

The Vollman Award (Faulkner Hospital Award): Kerri McKie, MD

Starfish Award: Jim Fitzgibbon, MD

Francis D. Moore, Sr. Award: Sasha Mahvi, MD

Donald D. Matson Award: Robert Riviello, MD

Richard E. Wilson Award: Matthew Nehs, MD

Joseph E. Murray and Simon J. Simonian Award: Matthew Nehs (mentor)/Brian Zhao (mentee) and Douglas Smink (mentor)/Rachel Atkinson (mentee)

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Douglas S. Smink, MD, MPH, Promoted to Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School

DOUGLAS S. SMINK, MD, MPH
Chief of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital
Vice Chair for Education, Department of Surgery
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Smink received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, completed general surgery residency at the Brigham and a minimally invasive surgery fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. 

Dr. Smink also serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Surgical Education and is a member of the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators through the American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Smink’s research focuses on resident and faculty education through simulation, team training and coaching. He is the co-PI on an NIH grant, the Provider Awareness and Cultural dexterity Toolkit for Surgeons (PACTS), a curriculum to improve surgeon communication with culturally diverse patients. In addition, he is the co-director of the Surgical Coaching for Operative Performance Enhancement (SCOPE) Program at Ariadne Labs, where he helps lead a program of peer-coaching and performance improvement for surgeons. His clinical interests include abdominal wall hernias, foregut surgery and biliary tract disease.