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Zara Cooper, MD, MSc, Promoted to Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School

Zara Cooper, MD, MSc
Michele and Howard J. Kessler Distinguished Chair in Surgery and Public Health
Kessler Director, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Chair, Executive Advisory Committee, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Community Health
Director, Center for Geriatric Surgery
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Cooper is an acute care surgeon, trauma surgeon and surgical intensivist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she also serves as Kessler director of the Center for Surgery and Public Health (CSPH), chair of the Executive Advisory Committee for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Community Health and director of the Center for Geriatric Surgery. Dr. Cooper is an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and adjunct faculty at the Marcus Institute for Aging Research. A graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dr. Cooper completed her general surgery residency and critical care fellowship at the Brigham; a trauma fellowship at Harborview Medical Center and the University of Washington; and training in hospice and palliative medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Brigham.

Her research aims to improve palliative and geriatric care for older seriously ill surgical patients. A national leader in surgical palliative care and geriatric trauma, she has authored over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, chapters, and abstracts and lectures nationally about surgical care in complex older patients.

Dr. Cooper is currently funded through the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), the National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC), the Department of Defense and is a co-investigator on multiple federally funded grants. She also serves on numerous editorial boards and committees for professional societies, Mass General Brigham and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is a member of the Brigham Health Board of Trustees.

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Recent Faculty Promotions

The following Department of Surgery faculty members were recently promoted.

Zi Chen, PhD, MA, as assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Maria Edelen, PhD, as associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD, to associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Nakul Raykar, MD, MPH, as assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Eleni Rettig, MD, to assistant professor of otolaryngology head and neck surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Ashraf Sabe, MD, as assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Kristin Sonderman, MD, MPH, as assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School

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Adam S. Kibel, MD, Named the DiNovi Family Distinguished Chair in Urology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Adam S. Kibel, MD
Chief, Division of Urology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
DiNovi Family Distinguished Chair in Urology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Elliott Carr Cutler Professor of Surgery in Urology, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Kibel is chief of Urology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center and the inaugural incumbent of the DiNovi Family Distinguished Chair in Urology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Cornell University, completed his urology residency at the Harvard Urologic Surgery Residency Program and fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute.

With a practice focused on minimally invasive treatments for urologic cancers, Dr. Kibel has been listed as one of America’s Top Doctors by Castle Connolly and named a top urologist by Boston Magazine. The author of close to 400 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Kibel’s research focuses on the identification of molecular markers of urologic tumors, adjuvant and neoadjuvant approaches to treatment of aggressive disease, and improved imaging of patients with urologic malignancies. His research has been supported by multiple organizations including the National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, American College of Surgeons and the American Foundation for Urologic Disease.