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Dr. Preston has been awarded a $774K award from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for his study: “PSA level during midlife and undiagnosed prostate cancer at autopsy: Understanding tumor biology and racial disparities.”

The study aims to develop smarter screening strategies to accurately identify men at risk for developing advanced prostate cancer while minimizing harms by testing mid-life PSA levels. The study will obtain blood from autopsies of black and white men to assess how PSA in midlife relates to pre-diagnosis natural history of prostate cancer and to determine when racial differences manifest in the natural history of prostate cancer.

Mark Preston, MD, MPH 

Mark A. Preston, MD, is a urologic surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Preston received his medical degree from the University of Ottawa in Canada, where he also completed his residency training in Urology. He completed a three-year accredited fellowship in Urologic Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital including a master of public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a concentration in clinical effectiveness. He is board certified in Urology.

Dr. Preston’s clinical interests include urologic oncology (bladder, kidney, prostate and testicular cancer) and minimally invasive surgery. Dr. Preston’s research focuses on the epidemiology of prostate and kidney cancer risk with an emphasis on predictive biomarkers and pharmacoepidemiology.

C. Keith Ozaki, MD, has been appointed vice chair of the Department of Surgery at Brigham Health, effective January 1, 2020. In this new role, Keith will serve as a senior member of the Department of Surgery leadership team.

C. Keith Ozaki, MD
Vice Chair, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
John A. Mannick Professor of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. C. Keith Ozaki is a clinically active vascular surgeon, vice chair of the Department of Surgery and the John A. Mannick Professor of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

He earned his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine, completed a general surgery residency through the Deaconess/Harvard Surgical Service (now Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) and then graduated from the vascular surgery fellowship at the University of Michigan Health System. He serves as director of vascular surgery research at the Brigham and currently leads the Ozaki Vascular Biology Lab within the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. Dr. Ozaki is also the director of resident research in the Department of Surgery. In this role, he prepares surgical trainees for their two to three years of academic enrichment time embedded in their surgical residency.

Dr. Ozaki’s clinical interests include complex hemodialysis access and peripheral vascular occlusive disease. He has authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications.

Over the past year, the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital has continued to build on our proud history of clinical and academic achievement. This report highlights just some of the many examples of our ongoing commitment to excellence in clinical care, research and surgical education.

To view or download the report click here.