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Geoffrey Anderson, MD, MPH, Named General Surgery Residency Associate Program Director for Resident Research Development

GEOFFREY ANDERSON, MD, MPH
Associate Surgeon, Division of Trauma, Burn and Surgical Critical Care
Associate Program Director, General Surgery Residency, Resident Research Development
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Anderson graduated from Duke University with a BS in biology and religion. He obtained an MPH at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and his medical degree from the Emory University School of Medicine. He completed a general surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a trauma and critical care fellowship at the University of Southern California Medical Center.

Dr. Anderson is board certified in general surgery and surgical critical care. He previously served in the Air Force as a flight surgeon and was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, where his main role was to evacuate casualties from the battlefield on rotary and fixed wing aircraft. He also assisted in the ER and OR during numerous mass casualty events and assisted with the H1N1 outbreak in Afghanistan.

Dr. Anderson’s clinical and research interests include global surgery, the social determinants of traumatic diseases, implementation science and surgical education.

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Faculty Spotlight – Sayeed K. Malek, MD

Sayeed Malek, MD, is the clinical director of Transplant Surgery at the Brigham. He is most proud of his work with living kidney donors. He says many of the donors are not family members but good Samaritans who want to help someone in need. Dr. Malek finds that working with these living donors is one of the most fulfilling aspects of his job as a surgeon. When asked what some of the challenges and positive aspects of being in such a small division are he says, “taking call with only two surgeons is very challenging, but on the other hand the division is very team-oriented.” The transplant team includes transplant coordinators, social workers, financial coordinators, administrators, preop and postop staff, medicine faculty, surgeons and more. There is constant teamwork and sometimes even cross-collaboration with other transplant divisions in the Boston hospitals. Dr. Malek wishes younger surgeons who are considering a career in transplant surgery realize that even though it is a very rigorous career path, it is equally, if not more, rewarding and immensely gratifying to give people a chance to live longer healthier lives. In his free time, Dr. Malek enjoys playing golf.

Please join us in thanking Dr. Malek for all his great contributions to our department and patients!

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Eric Sheu, MD, PhD, Named Inaugural Chief of Section of Foregut and Bariatric Surgery

Dr. Sheu will serve as chief of the newly created Section of Foregut and Bariatric Surgery in the Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery.

Eric Sheu, MD, PhD
Section Chief, Section of Foregut and Bariatric Surgery,
Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery
Associate Program Director, Advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Sheu is a bariatric and minimally invasive surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and the associate program director of the advanced minimally invasive surgery fellowship at the Brigham. Dr. Sheu graduated from Harvard College, obtained his doctorate in immunology as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and completed medical school at Harvard Medical School. He trained in general surgery at the Brigham, followed by a fellowship in advanced laparoscopy and bariatric surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Sheu’s clinical practice focuses on bariatric, foregut and hernia surgery. He directs an NIH R01-funded laboratory that investigates how changes in gut microbiota triggered by bariatric surgery lead to the resolution of type 2 diabetes. His research has been supported by numerous societies and philanthropic institutions, including the American Surgical Association, Harvard Catalyst, the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator, and the Consortia for Improving Medicine with Innovation and Technology.