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Welcoming New Faculty – Alexander P. Cole, MD

Please join us in welcoming Alexander P. Cole, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Alexander P. Cole, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Urology

Dr. Cole received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Harvard College and his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed general surgery training and a urology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a fellowship in health services research at the Brigham/Harvard University/Center for Surgery and Public Health. Following residency, he completed a clinical fellowship in urologic oncology and image-guided therapeutics, which incorporated roles as a urologic oncology fellow at the Brigham/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a six-month rotation as a senior clinical fellow with the focal therapy team at the University College London Hospitals Trust.

Dr. Cole is a member of various professional organizations, including the American Urological Association (AUA), the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

Dr. Cole’s research interests focus on the interplay between health systems and health care delivery models, with a particular focus on underserved minority populations. His clinical focus is on the treatment of genitourinary malignancies, with a focus on diagnostics and image-guided therapeutics.

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Recent Faculty Promotions

The following Department of Surgery faculty members were recently promoted:

Joaquim M. Havens, MD, to associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

George Molina, MD, MPH, to assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Namrata Patil, MD, MPH, MBBS, to assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Rosh Sethi, MD, MPH, to assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

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Ali Salim, MD, Appointed Inaugural BWH Distinguished Chair in Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Ali Salim, MD
BWH Distinguished Chair in Surgery
Associate Chair of Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery
Division Chief, Trauma, Burn and Surgical Critical Care
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Salim is a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and the chief of the Division of Trauma, Burn and Surgical Critical Care at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital. He leads a team of trauma specialists, providing expert, multidisciplinary care for thousands of trauma and burn patients each year.

Prior to joining the Brigham, Dr. Salim was an attending physician, program director of the General Surgery Residency Educational Program and director of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Duke University, a master’s degree from Columbia University and his medical degree from the Howard University College of Medicine. Dr. Salim completed his general surgery internship and residency, as well as his fellowship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.

Dr. Salim is both a traumatologist and a surgical intensivist at the Brigham. He is a clinically active trauma, general and critical care surgeon and devotes his time with equal intensity to research, surgical education and clinical service. His clinical interests focus on the care of the acutely ill trauma, emergency surgery and intensive care unit patient. Dr. Salim’s clinical research is focused on the care and outcomes of trauma patients, traumatic brain injury, improving the physiology of organ donors and improving the rate of organ donation. He has authored or co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications. His most recent research has focused on the long-term patient reported outcomes following trauma.