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Adil Haider, MD, MPH, was installed as the 51st president of the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) the Academic Surgical Congress in Jacksonville, FL.

About the Association for Academic Surgery

The Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) was founded in 1967 and is the world’s largest organization dedicated exclusively to the promotion of surgical research. It has about 3,000 active and senior members from the United States and other countries. The AAS is dedicated to the advancement of academic surgery and surgeons everywhere. The mission of the organization is to promote surgical research investigations through the communication of ideas between surgical residents, surgical fellows, junior surgical faculty and full professors and by awarding surgical research grants.

Adil Haider, MD, MPH
Kessler Director, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Surgeon, Division of Trauma, Burn, Surgical & Critical Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Adil Haider, MD, MPH, is an active trauma and critical care surgeon, prolific researcher, and the Kessler Director for the Center for Surgery and Public Health (CSPH), a joint initiative of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also the deputy editor of JAMA Surgery and president of the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS).

Dr. Haider is credited with uncovering racial disparities after traumatic injury and establishing the field of trauma disparities research. He is regarded as one of the foremost experts on healthcare inequities in the United States, with projects focused on describing and mitigating unequal outcomes based on sex, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age and socioeconomic status. His other research focuses on long-term clinical and functional outcomes after trauma and emergency general surgery, optimal treatment of trauma/critically ill patients in resource-poor settings, and advanced analytic techniques for surgical health services research.

Dr. Haider has formally mentored more than 120 research trainees, published more than 230 peer-reviewed papers and serves as principal investigator on extramural grants worth more than $8M. He believes that equality is the cornerstone of medicine, and his professional goal is to eradicate disparities in healthcare in the United States.

Nancy L. Cho, MD and Erika L. Rangel, MD, have been appointed associate clerkship directors in the Department of Surgery. In this important role, they will help to oversee the Core Surgery rotation during the HMS Primary Clinical Experience in collaboration with clerkship director Reza Askari, MD.

 

Nancy L. Cho, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Clerkship Director, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Cho is an associate surgeon in the Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Section of Endocrine Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. She received her medical degree from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, NY and completed both her General Surgery Residency and Endocrine Surgery Fellowship at BWH.

Dr. Cho is board certified in General Surgery. Her clinical interests include endocrine diseases of the thyroid/parathyroid glands and melanoma. Her primary research focus involves studying tumor-stroma biology with the goal of developing more effective, patient-specific treatment strategies.

 

Erika L. Rangel, MD, MS, FACS
Associate Surgeon, Division of Trauma, Burn, Surgical & Critical Care
Associate Clerkship Director
Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Director of Surgical Critical Care and Inpatient Programs, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital
Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Rangel is an associate surgeon in the Division of Trauma, Burn, Surgical & Critical Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and instructor in surgery at Harvard Medical School. She received her medical degree from the University of California San Francisco (USCF) School of Medicine in San Francisco, CA and completed both her General Surgery Residency and Critical Care Fellowship at BWH.

Dr. Rangel is board certified in both General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. Her clinical interests include: acute care surgery, biliary tract disease, minimally invasive hernia surgery, abdominal wall reconstruction and diverticular disease. Her academic research focuses on surgical education, parenting and work-life integration during residency and improving outcomes for geriatric patients after emergency surgery

Boston Magazine’s 2017 “Top Doctors” issue recognizes 48 Department of Surgery faculty members this year. Congratulations to the following providers for being recognized as “tops” in their respective fields:

Donald J. Annino Jr., MD – Otolaryngology

Stanley W. Ashley, MD – Surgery

Michael Belkin, MD – Vascular Surgery

Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD – Surgery

Neil Bhattacharyya, MD – Otolaryngology

Ronald Bleday, MD – Colon & Rectal Surgery

Raphael Bueno, MD – Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery

Katherina Zabicki Calvillo, MD – Surgery

Phillip C. Camp Jr., MD – Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery

Matthew J. Carty, MD – Plastic Surgery

Stephanie A. Caterson, MD – Plastic Surgery

Steven Lee Chang, MD – Urology

Yoon Sun Chun, MD – Plastic Surgery

Yolonda L. Colson, MD – Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery

Christian H. Corwin, MD – Colon & Rectal Surgery

Gerard M. Doherty, MD – Surgery

Christopher Ducko, MD – Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery

Margaret M. Duggan, MD – Surgery

Atul A. Gawande, MD – Surgery

Joel E. Goldberg, MD – Colon & Rectal Surgery

Mehra Golshan, MD – Surgery

Charles A. Hergrueter, MD – Plastic Surgery

Pardon R. Kenney, MD – Surgery

Adam S. Kibel, MD – Urology

Tari A. King, MD – Surgery

Sayeed K. Malek, MD – Surgery

Hari R. Mallidi, MD – Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery

Michael J. Malone, MD – Urology

Matthew T. Menard, MD – Vascular Surgery

Steven J. Mentzer, MD – Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery

Francis D. Moore Jr., MD – Surgery

Faina Nakhlis, MD – Surgery

Michael P. O’Leary, MD – Urology

Dennis P. Orgill, MD – Plastic Surgery

Charles K. Ozaki, MD – Vascular Surgery

Bohdan Pomahac, MD – Plastic Surgery

Chandrajit P. Raut, MD – Surgery

Esther Rhei, MD – Surgery

Christian E. Sampson, MD – Hand Surgery

Jo Shapiro, MD – Otolaryngology

Scott A. Shikora, MD – Surgery

Douglas Smink, MD – Surgery

Graeme S. Steele, MD – Urology

Scott J. Swanson, MD – Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery

Simon G. Talbot, MD – Plastic Surgery

Ashley H. Vernon, MD – Surgery

Jon O. Wee, MD – Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery

Daniel C. Wiener, MD – Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery