The official Twitter feed of Boston Medical Center (@The_BMC) & Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine (@BUMedicine) Department of Surgery.
We congratulate @The_BMC Surgeon-in-Chief and @BUMedicine Chair of Surgery Dr. Jennifer Tseng @TsengJennifer on her selection as president-elect of The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) @SSATNews! Dr. Tseng is immediate past secretary of SSAT.
Congratulations to @The_BMC@BUMedicine surgeon Dr. Noelle Saillant @NoelleSaillant, who has been named Chief of Surgical Critical Care and SICU Director & will assume her new roles on August 1. Dr. Saillant has also been named BMC Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Director.
We are very happy to welcome Dr. Andrea Merrill @AndreaLMerrill to @The_BMC Surgical Oncology team! Dr. Merrill did her residency @MGHSurgery and recently completed a complex general surgical oncology fellowship @OSUSurgery. @TsengJennifer@BUMedicine
Congratulations to Dr. Alik Farber on his appointment as Surgeon-in-Chief at Boston Medical Center and James Utley Professor and Chair of Surgery at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine! @The_BMC@BUMedicine
Congratulations to @The_BMC general surgery resident Dr. Nkiruka Arinze, who has matched to the Emory Vascular Surgery Fellowship! @EmorySurgery @AlikFarber
Our new @BMCSurgery interns are in the house and have started their first full week! On their way to becoming great surgeons. 😀 @juliadanford @SMForoushani @AshleeSeldom@docsmyers @hebael_
Congrats to @The_BMC Surgery residents Dr. Priyanka Chugh @AntiWheatGirl (left) and Dr. Nicole Cimbak on their pediatric surgery fellowship matches! Dr. Chugh matched to British Columbia Children’s Hospital @BCCHPedsSurg & Dr. Cimbak matched to Northwestern/@LurieChildrens. 🥳
Congratulations to Dr. Jason Hall @TheJhall13, Colorectal Surgery Chief @The_BMC, & trauma surgeon Dr. Sabrina Sanchez @SESanchezMD! Dr. Hall has been appointed Assoc. Chair, Academic Affairs & Faculty Development @BMCSurgery. Dr. Sanchez has been appointed Deputy Assoc. Chair.
Congrats to @The_BMC Chief Surgical Officer & Surgery Vice Chair Dr. David McAneny, who has been named Chief Medical Officer & Senior VP of Medical Affairs! Dr. McAneny, who will continue his surgical practice, assumes his new role in January. @TsengJennifer@BUMedicine 👏
Congrats to Dr. F. Thurston Drake @F_ThurstonDrake, who has been appointed as the inaugural Robert M. Beazley Scholar in Surgical Science! Dr. Drake is an endocrine surgeon @The_BMC and a @BUMedicine faculty member. @TsengJennifer
Congratulations to @The_BMC endocrine surgeon Dr. F. Thurston Drake @F_ThurstonDrake on his appointment as an Associate Professor of Surgery @BUMedicine!
Congratulations to @The_BMC surgery resident Dr. Stephanie Talutis @StephieT_MD, who matched to the Vascular Surgery Fellowship @UCLAHealth! @BUMedicine
Congrats to our @The_BMC chief residents (L to R), Drs. Louis Kester, Allan Stolarski & Spencer Wilson on matching to surgical critical care fellowships at @UMichSurgery, @pennsurgery & @hopkinssurgery, respectively! 🎉👏 @lou_was @SpencerWilsonMD
We are very happy to announce that Dr. Evan Merle has matched to @The_BMC Vascular Surgery Fellowship! He is currently a Chief Resident @MedStarWHC. We look forward to welcoming him to Boston! 😀
We are very happy to welcome Dr. Christopher Digesu @DigesuMD to @The_BMC Department of Surgery & the Division of Thoracic Surgery. He joins us from @BIDMCSurgery, where he completed surgery residency and a cardiothoracic fellowship. Great to have you on our team! @TsengJennifer
Congrats to @The_BMC surgery resident Dr. Megan Janeway @MeganJaneway, nominated by the 2022 @BUMedicine class & inducted into the Robert Russell M.D. Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society, & recipient of Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism & Excellence in Teaching Award!
Congratulations to @The_BMC surgeon @TejalSB on his selection as May Distinguished Faculty of the Month @BUMedicine! Dr. Brahmbhatt is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at BUSM and a member of the BMC Trauma & Acute Care Surgery team. @BostonTrauma
Congratulations to Dr. Gillian Goddard, a 2024 graduate of @The_BMC Surgery Residency Program, on matching to the pediatric surgery fellowship at the University of Florida! @UFSurgery 😀
Congratulations to @The_BMC Chief of Acute Care and Trauma Surgery Dr. Tracey Dechert @TraceyDechert on her new role as Secretary of the Association for Surgical Education! @Surg_Education@BostonTrauma
Congratulations to @The_BMC trauma surgeon and surgical intensivist Sabrina Sanchez, MD, MPH @SESanchezMD on her well-deserved promotion to Associate Professor of Surgery @BUMedicine! @BostonTrauma 😀
We extend a warm welcome to Dr. Elizabeth King, who recently joined @The_BMC Division of Vascular Surgery & the @BUMedicine faculty. Great to have Dr. King back at BMC! @AlikFarber @TsengJennifer
We are happy to announce that Dr. Aaron Richman @richmanap has been named as an Associate Program Director for @The_BMC General Surgery Residency Program. Congratulations!
We are very happy to welcome Dr. Sheina Theodore @S_Theodore_MD to @The_BMC Department of Surgery! She joins the Sections of Acute Care and Trauma Surgery & Surgical Critical Care. Great to have Dr. Theodore on our BMC team. @BostonTrauma @TraceyDechert @TejalSB
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Noelle Saillant has joined @The_BMC Sections of Acute Care and Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. She is a graduate of @BUMedicine, so she is no stranger to BUSM or BMC. Great to have her back as part of our team!
Congratulations to @The_BMC Surgery Resident Dr. Brenda Lin @brendalinmd on matching to the vascular surgery fellowship here at BMC! We are thrilled that she will be staying onboard with us. 🥳
Congrats to our @The_BMC Surgery residents on their colorectal surgery fellowship matches! Dr. Carlos Fairen Oro matched to UMass Chan Medical School @UMassChan & Dr. Olivia Sacks matched to Lahey Hospital & Medical Center! 🎉 @LaheyColoRectal@olisacks@carlosfairenmd
Congratulations to @The_BMC surgical oncologist and Assistant Professor of Surgery Dr. Andrea Merrill @AndreaLMerrill on being named @BUMedicine Distinguished Faculty of the Month! 😀
Congrats to @The_BMC Surgery resident Dr. Priyanka Chugh @AntiWheatGirl on being elected Council-Associate for the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons @AsianAcadSurg! Proud of Dr. Chugh (here with SAAS annual meeting attendees), the only resident on the SAAS executive council. 👏
Congratulations to @The_BMC Surgery resident Dr. Priyanka Chugh @AntiWheatGirl on winning the @AsianAcadSurg-@WomenSurgeons Resident Travel Award! She will attend the SAAS annual meeting this September in New Orleans @Tulane. 👏😀
Congratulations to Drs. Brendin Beaulieu-Jones @bbeaulieujones and Priyanka Chugh @AntiWheatGirl, elected by their peers to serve as @The_BMC Surgery 2025-2026 administrative chief residents! 😀
On International Women's Day, we celebrate all the women in @The_BMC Department of Surgery who keep things humming in the OR and behind the scenes! This is our all-female Colorectal Surgery team @beresneva_olga@jendavidsmd & Dr. Joanne Favuzza. #IWD2023💪😀
Our Colorectal Surgery team is very happy to welcome Dr. Olga Beresneva @beresneva_olga back to BMC! Dr. Beresneva, an alum of @The_BMC residency & @LaheyHospital colorectal surgery fellowship program, recently joined the @BUMedicine faculty. @TheJhall13@TsengJennifer
Kathryn Twomey, MD, has joined our Trauma and Acute Care Surgery faculty. Dr. Twomey completed general surgery residency @BMCSurgery, followed by a surgical critical care fellowship @BWHSurgery. Great to have her back @The_BMC@BUMedicine
Tonight, we officially send off our wonderful @The_BMC Surgery Chief Residents and celebrate with them and their families. We have no doubt that their future is bright. Congratulations to Drs. Collado, Poulson, Goddard, Haqqani & Geary! 🎉
Congratulations to @The_BMC surgery resident Dr. Sherif Aly, who matched to the Advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship @BrighamSurgery! It's a great program, and lucky for us, he will still be nearby! @BUMedicine
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Carlos Fairen Oro will join @The_BMC General Surgery Residency Program in June as a PGY3 categorical resident! Dr. Fairen Oro joins us from the General Surgery Residency @hopkinssurgery. @TsengJennifer
Congratulations to @The_BMC Associate Surgery Residency Program Director Dr. Luise Pernar, recipient of the Association for Surgical Education @Surg_Education Linnea Hauge, PhD, Promising Educational Scholar Award! #ASE2021@TsengJennifer@BUMedicine
We are very happy to have Dr. Zara Cooper @zaracMD, trauma surgeon @BrighamSurgery, Kessler Director @CSPH_BWH & researcher and national leader in the field of surgical palliative care as our @The_BMC virtual Surgery Grand Rounds speaker this Friday, Aug. 27. @BUMedicine
We are very happy to announce that Drs. Olivia D'Angelo @OliviaMDAngelo, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial @UMJMHSurgery resident & Alex Lin, UMass Chan Medical School/@Baystate_Health resident, have matched to @The_BMC Vascular Surgery Fellowship! @AlikFarber @TsengJennifer
Breaking new ground while passing the torch @BostonTrauma, @The_BMC & @BUMedicine! We celebrate and thank Dr. Peter Burke @PabPanza and look forward to a new era with Dr. @TraceyDechert at the helm as Chief of Trauma.
We are very happy to announce that Dr. Sruti Golthi, now a general surgery resident @RowanSOM, and Dr. Tony Xia, currently a general surgery resident @mystlukes, have matched to @The_BMC Surgical Critical Care Fellowship! @BostonTrauma @TraceyDechert @TejalSB@TsengJennifer 🥳
Very happy to host the 31st Grasberger Research Symposium & Visiting Professorship on Friday, Feb. 25 and welcome in person esteemed @UCSFSurgery endocrine surgeons Drs. Julie Ann Sosa @Jasosamd and Sanziana Roman @PheoSurgeon to @The_BMC & @BUMedicine.
Zoom ➡️ Surgery@BU.edu
Congrats to Surgery Chief Resident Dr. Alaina Geary @GearyMD on being selected as the 2024 physician fellow for the Ravin Davidoff Executive Fellowship in Health Equity @The_BMC! She will work on projects & programs to reduce racial & ethnic inequities in health outcomes. 👏
We are very happy to welcome Dr. Jeffrey Cooper to @The_BMC and @BUMedicine. Dr. Cooper is the new Chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery. Great to have him on our team! @TsengJennifer
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Burke, Chief of Acute Care & Trauma Surgery @The_BMC, who has won the Jerome Klein Award in recognition of his amazing dedication & commitment to BMC over the last 20 years! @BUMedicine
Peter Burke @BostonTrauma@BMCSurgery wins Jerome Klein Award highest award at @The_BMC ! Not a surprise. “Peter Burke cares about the patients, the residents, the faculty, the staff, @The_BMC and the country and the world ..” 👏👏👏
Congrats to Dr. Cullen Carter, Distinguished Faculty of the Month @BUMedicine! As @The_BMC Surgery Clerkship Director, until recently handing off this role, he spearheaded numerous improvements, which boosted overall student satisfaction. @TsengJenniferbumc.bu.edu/busm/2020/11/03/…
Today is National Physician Assistant Day! We have a lot of hard-working PAs in @The_BMC Department of Surgery, but they also know how to have fun. Check out the PA cast in this video created by Chief Inpatient PA Lauren Hartnett. 😀📽️ @TsengJennifer
We are very happy to announce that Phoebe Otchere @potchere7, U.S. Air Force, has matched to @The_BMC General Surgery Residency Program! #militarymatch Phoebe will complete medical school at Northeast Ohio Medical University in 2023. We look forward to welcoming her next summer.
Congrats to @The_BMC CEO Kate Walsh @KateWalshCEO on being named Massachusetts Secretary of Health & Human Services @MassHHS by @MassGovernor Maura Healey! Pictured: Walsh (second from right) with Healey, Surgery Chair @TsengJennifer & residents & faculty.
We are happy to welcome Dr. Danby Kang @danbykang to @The_BMC Acute Care & Trauma Surgery team! @BostonTrauma Dr. Kang joins us after completing the surgical critical care/acute care surgery fellowship @PittCCM. She is also an Assistant Professor of Surgery @BUMedicine.
Congratulations to our new interns! Can’t wait to meet you in June, but in the meantime here’s a short welcome video! @TsengJennifer@The_BMC@BUMedicine
Congrats to our PGY2 resident Dr. Maia Nofal @MaiaNofal on receiving an NIH-Fogarty Global Health Equity Scholars Fellowship! @Fogarty_NIH It will support her upcoming research year in Addis Ababa focused on surgical safety and quality improvement. @TsengJennifer 🎉
To all of the applicants who are applying to @The_BMC General Surgery Residency Program, we want you to know we are carefully reviewing applications. Consistent with @APDSurgery guidelines, we will begin sending interview invitations on Oct. 27. #GenSurgMatch2022#Match2022
We are happy to announce that Omar Karim @omar_karim25 matched to @The_BMC General Surgery Residency Program on #MilitaryMatchDay! He will join us as after graduation from @BrownMedicine in 2025. We look forward to welcoming him to BMC next summer! @BUMedicine
Congratulations to @The_BMC Surgery resident Dr. Gordana Rasic @GordanaRasic, who was one of six residents nominated by students from the @BUMedicine Class of 2022 to receive the @GoldFdtn Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award!
We are very happy to have Dr. Eileen Bulger @bulgercot, Chief of Trauma @harborviewmc & Chair @AmCollSurgeons Committee on Trauma, as our 32nd Annual Clowes Visiting Professor this Friday, April 29. @BostonTrauma@PabPanza @TraceyDechert
GR & Keynote Zoom: Surgery@bu.edu