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Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD, Appointed Inaugural BWH Distinguished Chair in Otolaryngology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

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Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD

Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD, chief of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Brigham Health and associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, has been appointed the inaugural BWH Distinguished Chair in Otolaryngology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Dr. Uppaluri completed his medical degree and doctorate in genetics at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN. He trained in Otolaryngology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. He remained there as a faculty member for 16 years before moving to Boston with his wife, Chitra Uppaluri, MD, and three children in 2016.

Dr. Uppaluri, a leader in his field, has a deep understanding of head and neck tumor biology as well as integration of radiation, chemotherapy and surgical treatment modalities, including minimally invasive transoral laser microsurgery and endoscopic and open approaches to anterior skull base pathologies. He has been the primary investigator of clinical trials integrating small molecule and immunotherapeutics in the surgical management of head and neck cancers. He also leads a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded laboratory, focused on basic and translational approaches to head and neck cancers.

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Welcoming New Faculty – Antonio Coppolino, III, MD, MSc

Please join us in welcoming Antonio Coppolino, III, MD, MSc, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

 

Antonio Coppolino, III, MD, MSc
Antonio Coppolino, III, MD, MSc

 

Antonio Coppolino, III, MD, MSc
Associate Surgeon, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Coppolino is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA and received his medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Washington, DC. He also holds an MSc in Clinical and Translational Science from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences in New York, NY.

He completed a residency in General Surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, NY, followed by a residency in Thoracic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Most recently, Dr. Coppolino completed his fellowship in Heart and Lung Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support also at the Brigham.

He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.

His research and clinical interests include thoracic surgical oncology, end stage heart and lung disease, mechanical circulatory support, lung and heart transplantation and Ex-vivo lung perfusion.

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Welcoming New Faculty – Regan W. Bergmark, MD

Please join us in welcoming Regan W. Bergmark, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

 

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Regan W. Bergmark, MD

 

Regan W. Bergmark, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Bergmark is a graduate of Stanford University in Stanford, CA and was a John Gardner Public Service Fellow prior to receiving her medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. She completed residency training in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery in the Harvard Otolaryngology Residency Program followed by a fellowship in Rhinology and Anterior Skull Base Surgery at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard Medical School. At Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Dr. Bergmark was then the Gliklich Healthcare Innovation Scholar where she collaborated with Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School and the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement on standardized health outcomes measures.

Dr. Bergmark is board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. Her clinical interests include diseases of the sinuses and skull base, chronic rhinosinusitis, tumors of the sinuses, aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease, as well as general otolaryngology. In addition to research on chronic sinusitis and other sinonasal disorders, she studies disparities in healthcare outcomes and utilization of patient reported outcomes measures across diverse patient populations.