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Welcoming New Faculty – Ealaf Shemmeri, MD

Please join us in welcoming Ealaf Shemmeri, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Ealaf Shemmeri, MD, PHARMD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery

Dr. Shemmeri received her undergraduate degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received a Doctor of Pharmacy from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and her medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine. She completed residency training at North Shore University Hospital Long Island Jewish Medical Center and a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Albany Medical Center.

Dr. Shemmeri also completed a clinical and research fellowship in thoracic and foregut surgery at the Swedish Cancer Institute and Medical Center, a critical care clinical pharmacy residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center and a minimally invasive thoracic surgery fellowship at the Brigham.

Her clinical interests focus on minimally invasive thoracic surgery and foregut and her research interests include clinical outcomes in foregut, specifically achalasia and esophageal cancer. 

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Welcoming New Faculty – James S. Rosoff, MD

Please join us in welcoming James S. Rosoff, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

James S. Rosoff, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Urology

Dr. Rosoff received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College. He completed resident training in urology at the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and a fellowship in urologic oncology at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Before coming to the Brigham, Dr. Rosoff worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Urology at the Yale School of Medicine and most recently, as an attending urological surgeon at the Tallwood Urology and Kidney Institute in St. Vincent’s Medical Center. Dr. Rosoff is board certified by the American Board of Urology and is a member of the American Urological Association.

Dr. Rosoff’s clinical and research interests focus on the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer, kidney cancer and bladder cancer; MRI fusion prostate biopsies; the medical and surgical management of BPH; as well as the treatment and prevention of kidney stones.

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2022 Final Service Conference and Graduation Awards

The following recipients were recently honored with awards at the Final Service Conference.

Student Teaching Awards          

  • PGY 1: Sarah Tsou, MD, and Dan Hoffman, MD
  • PGY 2: Sangki Oak, MD
  • PGY 3: Kerri McKie, MD
  • PGY 4: Karan Chhabra, MD
  • PGY 5: Sasha Mahvi, MD (the Robert T. Osteen Award for Medical Student Education in Surgery)

    Surgery Class of ’63 Scholar: Sourav Bose, MD

PBB Scholar Award: Sasha Mahvi, MD, and Katherine He, MD

Grant Rodkey Award (VA Hospital Award): Lily Saadat, MD, and Laura Piechura, MD

Christine Weeks Schofield Award (South Shore Hospital Award): Alex Ordoobadi, MD

Edward Kwasnik Award (South Shore Hospital Award): Joshua Jolissaint, MD

The Vollman Award (Faulkner Hospital Award): Kerri McKie, MD

Starfish Award: Jim Fitzgibbon, MD

Francis D. Moore, Sr. Award: Sasha Mahvi, MD

Donald D. Matson Award: Robert Riviello, MD

Richard E. Wilson Award: Matthew Nehs, MD

Joseph E. Murray and Simon J. Simonian Award: Matthew Nehs (mentor)/Brian Zhao (mentee) and Douglas Smink (mentor)/Rachel Atkinson (mentee)