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Please join us in welcoming Thomas C. Tsai, MD, MPH, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Thomas C. Tsai, MD, MPH
Associate Surgeon, Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery

Dr. Tsai is a graduate of Harvard College, received his medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed an MPH at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed a residency in General Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital followed by a fellowship in Minimally Invasive Bariatric and Advanced GI Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery.

Dr. Tsai’s clinical interests include the surgical and endoscopic management of gastroesophageal reflux disease, bariatric surgery and complex abdominal wall reconstruction. His current research uses Medicare claims and other large national datasets to study the effectiveness and unintended consequences of health policy interventions on the affordability, accessibility and quality of health care in the United States.

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

Eleni Rettig, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Dr. Rettig is a graduate of Yale University and received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. She completed residency training in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, including a two-year
Otolaryngology research training program. She then completed a fellowship in Advanced Head and Neck Oncologic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

Dr. Rettig is board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. Her clinical expertise includes the surgical treatment of head and neck cancers, salivary gland tumors, cutaneous malignancies, and thyroid and parathyroid tumors; transoral robotic surgery; and microvascular reconstruction of the head and neck. Her research interests include human papillomavirus-associated oropharynx cancer, head and neck cancer epidemiology and health-related quality of life among head and neck cancer patients.

Please join us in welcoming Christina A. Minami, MD, MFA, MS, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Christina A. Minami, MD, MFA, MS
Associate Surgeon, Division of Breast Surgery

Dr. Minami is a graduate of Harvard University and received her medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She also holds an MS in Health Services and Outcomes Research from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Dr. Minami completed residency training in General Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine followed by a fellowship in Breast Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She is board certified by the American Board of Surgery.

Her clinical interests include breast cancer treatment in the elderly, breast conservation and extent of axillary surgery. Her research interests include health services and outcomes research in the arena of geriatric breast oncology, patient-centered decision-making and cancer quality measures.