Program Director: Frank W. LoGerfo, M.D.
William V. McDermott Distinguished Professor of Surgery,
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Department: Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Surgery
Research Area: Vascular grafts; intimal hyperplasia
Program Director: Leena Pradhan-Nabzdyk, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Department: Surgery, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Research Area: Vascular and neuropathic complications of diabetes; vascular grafts; intimal hyperplasia
| Mentor | Academic Appointment | Department/Institution | Research Area |
| Frank W. LoGerfo, M.D. | William V. McDermott Distinguished Professor of Surgery, HMS | Surgery/BIDMC | Vascular grafts; intimal hyperplasia |
| Leena Pradhan-Nabzdyk, Ph.D., M.B.A. | Assistant Professor of Surgery, HMS | Surgery/BIDMC | Neuropathy and diabetic complications |
| Gabriel Brat, M.D. | Assistant Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Informatics | Surgery/BIDMC | Surgical Informatics for informed surgical planning and clinical decision support to optimize opioid prescribing |
| Elliot J. Chaikof M.D., Ph.D. | Professor of Surgery, HMS | Chair, Department of Surgery, BIDMC | Biology of materials and devices in the vascular system |
| Christiane F. Ferran, M.D., Ph.D. | Professor of Surgery, HMS | Surgery (and Medicine)/BIDMC | Modulation of endothelial cell activation by the anti-apoptic gene A20 |
| Mohamad Hussain, M.D., Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Surgery, HMS | Surgery/BWH | Clinical Epidemiology & Health Services Research |
| Ramaswamy Krishnan, PhD | Professor, HMS | Emergency Medicine, BIDMC | Measure mechanosensing responses in lungs and beyond, developing cell and tissue biomechanical tools to quantify these responses. |
| Steven J. Mentzer M.D. | Professor of Surgery, HMS | Surgery, BWH | Regenerative medicine by application of principles of structural biology, adaptive physiology and tissue engineering |
| Dennis P. Orgill, M.D., Ph.D. | Professor of Surgery, HMS | Associate Chief of Plastic Surgery/BWH | Stimulating complex wounds to heal: use of artificial extracellular matrices for regeneration, the use of biologics, and the effect of mechanical forces on wound healing |
| C. Keith Ozaki, M.D. | Associate Professor of Surgery, HMS | Surgery/BWH | Cytokine-driven mechanisms of vein graft failure |
| Mark Puder, M.D., Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Surgery, HMS | Surgery/BCH | Prevention and treatment of parenteral and enteral nutrition induced liver injury |
| Marc L. Schermerhorn, M.D. | Associate Professor of Surgery, HMS | Surgery/BIDMC | Outcomes of minimally invasive versus open surgical treatment of peripheral vascular disease |
BIDMC = Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
BWH = Brigham and Women’s Hospital
HMS = Harvard Medical School
HST = Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology
MIT = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BCH = Boston Children’s Hospital