News and updates from the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital
The following Department of Surgery faculty members were recently promoted.
Steven Chang, MD, MS, to associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Farhad Nezami, PhD, to assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Devin O’Brien-Coon, MD, to associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Michael Belkin, MD
Chief, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery
John Anthony Mannick Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Belkin attended Amherst college and went on to medical school at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He completed general surgery residency training at the Hartford Hospital/University of Connecticut Surgical Residency Program. He served as the Smithwick Vascular Surgery Research Fellow at Boston University School of Medicine and trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as the John Homans Fellow in Vascular Surgery under Dr. John Mannick. Dr. Belkin served for three years as an assistant professor of surgery at the New England Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine before returning to the Brigham.
At the Brigham, he served as program director in general surgery and vascular surgery. He was appointed chief of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery in 2001. Dr. Belkin’s career has been focused on tertiary clinical care of vascular surgery patients, clinical research and on the education of residents and fellows in vascular surgery.
Please join us in welcoming Alexandra J. Berger, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.
Alexandra J. Berger, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Urology
Dr. Berger graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Studies and received her medical degree from the Warren Alpert School of Medicine of Brown University. She completed general surgery and urology residency training at the Brigham followed by a GURS reconstructive urology fellowship at the University of Colorado.
Dr. Berger’s clinical and research interests include men’s health and sexual medicine, male and female reconstruction, and voiding dysfunction, as well as patient-reported outcomes.