Indranil Sinha, MD, Awarded $2.1M National Institutes of Health Grant

Dr. Sinha was awarded for his project, “PHD2 mediated loss of hypoxia signaling limits skeletal muscle regeneration and exercise response in aging.”

The study evaluates the role of the hypoxia signaling pathway in age-related decline in skeletal muscle regeneration and response to exercise.  The goal is to identify drug targets to limit loss of skeletal muscle function in the elderly population.

Indranil Sinha, MD
Director of Research, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Sinha is an associate professor of surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley in molecular and cellular biology, and completed his medical degree at the University of Michigan Medical School, followed by a plastic surgery residency from the Harvard Combined Program.  His research focus is the rejuvenation of skeletal muscle function in aging and following traumatic injury.

Incoming General Surgery Interns for 2023-2024

Categorical General Surgery – Dr. Stephanie Nitzschke, Program Director
Altan, Defne – Harvard Medical School

Brooks, Ezra – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Hey, Matthew – Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Kim, Ki Ryung – Harvard Medical School

Nordan, Taylor – Tufts University School of Medicine

Pathak,  Kavya – Harvard Medical School

Premkumar, Akash – Harvard Medical School

Tran, Aurelie – University of Michigan Medical School

Wothe, Jillian – University of Minnesota Medical School

Preliminary General Surgery – Dr. Stephanie Nitzschke, Program Director
Abdi, Hodan – University of Minnesota Medical School

Alcoreza, Jr, Oscar – Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Ham, Edward – Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University

Lake, Isabel – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Pease, Tyler – Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School  

Arnett, Nathan – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania [IR]

Pianka, Sean – University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine [IR]

Thoracic Integrated I-6 – Dr. Michael Jaklitsch, Program Director
Xu, Ke – Boston University School of Medicine (Thoracic Surgery Track)

Isaza, Erin – University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (Cardiac Surgery Track)

Urology – Dr. George Haleblian, Program Director
Ernandez, John – Harvard Medical School

Hansen, Nathaniel – Tufts University School of Medicine

Labban, Muhieddine – American University of Beirut

Harvard Plastic Surgery – Dr. Kyle Eberlin, Program Director; Lydia Helliwell, Associate Program Director @ BWH
Caragher, Seamus – Harvard Medical School

Hyland, Colby – Harvard Medical School

Rizk, Nada – Stanford University School of Medicine

Otolaryngology – Dr. Stacey Gray, Program Director; Dr. Alice Maxfield, Associate Program Director/BWH Site Director
Chen, Alyssa – University of Michigan Medical School

Kons, Zachary – Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Ranganath, Kushi – Harvard Medical School

Tashman, Katherine – Harvard Medical School

Hansen, Elisabeth – Harvard Medical School

Oral Medicine – Dr. Piamkamon Vacharotayangul, Program Director
Kuchibhotla, Navya – Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

Recent Faculty Promotions

The following Department of Surgery faculty members were recently promoted.

Thomas Carroll, MD, to associate professor of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at Harvard Medical School.


Alison Laws, MD, MPH, to assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.


Gezzer Ortega, MD, MPH, to assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.


Mark Preston, MD, MPH, to associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.