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