Welcoming New Faculty – Paula A. Ugalde Figueroa, MD

Please join us in welcoming Paula A. Ugalde Figueroa, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Paula A. Ugalde Figueroa, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery

Dr. Ugalde received her medical degree from the Federal University of Bahia Medical School in Salvador, Brazil, where she also completed a master’s degree and a postdoctoral research fellowship in lung volume reduction surgery. She completed her general surgery residency at the Santo Antônio Hospital in Salvador, Brazil and a thoracic surgery residency at the Pavilhão Pereira Filho Santa Casa da Misericórdia Hospital Department of Pulmonary Disease in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Subsequently, Dr. Ugalde completed a 2-year clinical fellowship in thoracic surgery at the Hôpital Laval Department of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery in Quebec, Canada and a minimally invasive thoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Esophageal and Lung Surgery Institute.

She is a member of the Board of Directors and chair of the Database Committee of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), as well as a member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgery (AATS), the Society of Thoracic Surgery (STS) and Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS), among other institutions. Previously, Dr. Ugalde worked as the director of the Thoracic Oncology Research Program at the University Institute of Cardiology and Pulmonology of Quebec of the Université Laval, where she was also a clinical professor in the Department of Surgery.

Dr. Ugalde’s clinical and research interests include innovation in minimally invasive lung surgery. She has the largest prospective database on uniportal surgery and has published extensively on using this technique for complex procedures. She is also dedicated to education and organizing several meetings and training programs, nationally and internationally.

Mark Fairweather, MD, Named Program Director of the Mass General Brigham/Dana-Farber Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship at Harvard Medical School

Mark Fairweather, MD
Program Director, Mass General Brigham/Dana-Farber Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship, Harvard Medical School
Associate Program Director, Brigham General Surgery Residency, Department of Surgery
Director, Advanced Surgery Clerkships, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Fairweather joined the faculty in the Division of Surgical Oncology at the Brigham in 2018, specializing in GI/HPB and sarcoma. He is a graduate of Hanover College and received his medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He completed a residency in general surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital followed by a fellowship in complex general surgical oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Dr. Fairweather’s clinical interests include cancers of the gastrointestinal tract and soft-tissue sarcomas.  In addition to research on treatment outcomes for sarcoma, including retroperitoneal sarcomas and gastrointestinal stromal tumors, he also serves as an executive officer for the Alliance Foundation Trials, LLC (AFT), where his work focuses on developing and validating methods of capturing high-quality real-world data alongside ongoing clinical trials.

Welcoming New Faculty – Kristin A. Sonderman, MD, MPH

Please join us in welcoming Kristin A. Sonderman, MD, MPH, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Kristin A. Sonderman, MD, MPH
Associate Surgeon, Division of Trauma, Burn and Surgical Critical Care

Dr. Sonderman completed her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she went on to receive her medical degree. She holds an MPH from the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health. She completed her general surgery residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship from the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School. She was also an Arthur Tracy Cabot research fellow at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at the Brigham. She most recently completed a trauma and surgical critical care fellowship at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center of the University of Maryland.

Dr. Sonderman is a member of various professional societies, including the American Medical Association (AMA), the Association of Women Surgeons (AWS) and the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). She is an associate fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a fellow of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST).

Dr. Sonderman’s research interests include surgical capacity building in low income countries through national surgical planning, surgical education and training. Additionally, she has interests in trauma education and resident development.