Category: News

Scott James Swanson, MD
Canepari Family Distinguished Chair in Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Director, Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Chief of Surgery, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Swanson is the inaugural Canepari Family Distinguished Chair in Thoracic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he serves as director of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery. He is associate chief of surgery at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Swanson received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his general and cardiothoracic surgical residencies at the Brigham. He completed a fellowship in vascular biology at Harvard Medical School and a thoracic oncology fellowship at the Brigham. Dr. Swanson is board certified in surgery and thoracic surgery. He has been listed as one of America’s Top Doctors by Castle Connolly and named a top thoracic surgeon by Boston Magazine.

Dr. Swanson’s clinical interests include minimally invasive thoracic surgery and lung cancer. His research is focused on better understanding early stage lung cancer, its biologic fingerprint and clinical behavior.

Categorical General Surgery

• Christian Cullen – Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
• John Gaspich – Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
• Olivia Lynch – University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
• Thomas Martin – The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
• Niyi Odewade – Harvard Medical School
• Julia Song– Harvard Medical School
• Maya Srinivasan – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Avery Thompson – University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
• Bonnie Wong – Stanford University School of Medicine

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Preliminary General Surgery

• Lauren Anderson – Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center
• Jordan Forte – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
• Kevin George – Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
• Quinn Rainer – University of Miami Leonard M Miller School of Medicine
• Logan Scoon– Georgetown University School of Medicine
• Alexander Boyko – Boston University School of Medicine [IR]
• Austin Lai – Saint Louis University School of Medicine [IR]

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Cardiothoracic Integrated I – 6

• Andrea Liebowitz – Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons [thoracic surgery track]
• Maximilian Schloss – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet München [cardiac surgery track]

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Oral Medicine

• Mandlin Al-Mousa – King Saud University
• Laurel Henderson – University of Southern California

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Plastic Surgery

• Sri “Harsha” Harshvardhan Malapati – Johns Hopkins University
• Eva Roy – University of Pittsburgh
• Uriel Sanchez-Rangel – Stanford University School of Medicine

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Urology

• Grayden Cook – The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
• Thomas Hwang – Harvard Medical School
• Vanessa Lukas – Wake Forest School of Medicine of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

The following Department of Surgery faculty members were recently promoted.

Sook Bin Woo, DMD, MMSc, to professor of professor of oral medicine, infection, and immunity at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

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Indranil Sinha, MD, to associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

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Geoffrey Anderson, MD, MPH, to assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

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Hassan Khalil, MD, to assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

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Jamie Robertson, PhD, MPH, to assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

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Daniel A Wollin, MD, MS, to assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.