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Please join us in welcoming Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH
Senior Investigator, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH, recently joined the Center for Surgery and Public Health (CSPH) as a senior investigator. Dr. Welch is a general internist who has worked for the US Indian Health Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs and Dartmouth.

For over three decades, he has been asking hard questions about his profession. His arguments are frequently counter-intuitive, even heretical, yet have regularly appeared in the country’s most prestigious medical journals — Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute — as well as in op-eds in the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.

Dr. Welch questions the assumption that more medical care is always better. His research has focused on the assumption as it relates to diagnosis: that the best strategy to keep people healthy is early diagnosis – and the earlier the better. He has delineated the side effects of this strategy: physicians test too often, treat too aggressively and tell too many people that they are sick.  Much of his work has focused on overdiagnosis in cancer screening: in particular, screening for melanoma, thyroid, lung, breast and prostate cancer.

Please join us in welcoming Arthur F. Little, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Arthur F. Little, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Urology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Little is a graduate of Princeton University, received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and completed his residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Lahey Hospital & Medical Center. Most recently, Dr. Little was a urologist at Mystic Valley Urological Associates in Stoneham, MA and the Chief of Urology at Winchester Hospital. He is board certified by the American Board of Urology.

His research and clinical interests include: general urology, kidney and ureteral stones, benign prostatic hyperplasia, erectile dysfunction, bladder cancer, urinary tract infections and no-scalpel vasectomy.

Please join us in welcoming Daniel A. Wollin, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Daniel A. Wollin, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Urology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Wollin is a graduate of Williams College and received his medical degree from The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed a residency in urology at New York University School of Medicine followed by a fellowship in endourology, metabolic stone disease, laparoscopic and robotic surgery at Duke University Medical Center. He is currently completing a master of science in integrated design and management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

His research and clinical interests include: endoscopic surgery, kidney cancer, kidney masses/cysts, kidney stones, medical devices, metabolic stone disease, prostate cancer, robotic surgery and ureteral/renal reconstruction.