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Department of Surgery Newsletter 
In This Issue
A Job Worth Doing
BU Surgery Video
New Chief of Thoracic Surgery
Boston's Top Docs
New Faculty
Save the Date 
Grasberger Symposium 
 February 25, 2013
 
Michael W. Mulholland, MD, PhD, Frederick A. Coller Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan will serve as Grasberger Professor.

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The BU School of Medicine Department of Surgery website includes new faculty profiles and updated content about the department's clinical services, residency program, research initiatives and educational resources. 
 
In addition, the site will include up-to-date news, announcements and event listings.

 

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Department of Surgery Leadership

James Utley Professor and Chair,
Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine

Surgeon-in-Chief, Boston Medical Center
Program Director, Surgery Residency

 

Michael Stone, MD
Vice Chair, Department of Surgery
Professor of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine

 

David McAneny, MD, FACS
Associate Chair for Clinical Quality and Patient Safety
Associate Professor of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine

Stephen Sentovich, MD, MBA
Associate Chair for Clinical Operations
Associate Professor of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine

 

Tracey Dechert, MD 
Associate Program Director, Surgery Residency
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine 

 

Donald Hess, MD

Associate Program Director, Surgery Residency
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine 

Jane Mendez, MD
Clerkship Director

Associate Professor of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine 

 

 

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In this issue of our Department of Surgery e-newsletter, read a feature story about our new Chairman, Gerard Doherty, MD, check out our new and improved Department of Surgery website, learn about new faculty members and see which members of the department were honored as Boston Magazine's "Top Docs" 2012.
A Job Worth Doing
Gerard-Doherty-MD
Gerard Doherty, MD
Gerard Doherty, MD, takes helm of Department of Surgery
 
Gerard Doherty is a soft-spoken man with a sense of humor and a keen sense of purpose. He will tell you as a third-year medical student who thought he was going to be an internist, it was the surgical patients that interested him the most. 
 
"I found that as the patients went to surgery to have their problem fixed, I liked finding out whether the early decisions we made were right or wrong," Doherty recalls. "Whether our diagnoses and plans held up, and that our choices were out there for all to see. That is what attracted me to surgery."  
 
Department of Surgery Video 
Boston University School of Medicine Department of Surgery

Hiran Fernando, MBBS, FRCS, named Chief of Thoracic Surgery
Hirnan Fernando
Hiran Fernando, MBBS, FRCS
Hiran Fernando, MBBS, FRCShas been named Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). 
 
Dr. Fernando has served as the Director of BMC's Center for Minimally Invasive Esophageal Surgery. He obtained his medical degree at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London. He then trained in general surgery in the University of California system before training in thoracic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Department of Surgery Faculty Featured in Boston Magazine's "Top Docs" 2012
Boston Magazine's 2012 "Top Docs" issue recognizes 11 Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine Department of Surgery faculty members for being recognized as "tops" in their respective fields:
Boston Magazine

New Faculty in the Department of Surgery
Dr. Godfrey
Tony Godfrey, PhD
Tony Godfrey, PhD  

Associate Chair
, Surgical Research 

Associate Professor of Surgery 
 

Tony E. Godfrey, PhD, Associate Chair, Surgical Research and Associate Professor of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, earned a bachelor's of science degree in biochemistry from Brunel University in England, followed by a doctorate in molecular biology and biochemistry, also from Brunel. He attended the University of California, San Francisco, for postdoctoral fellowships and managed UCSF's Genome Analysis Core Facility.

 

Most recently, Dr. Godfrey was a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY. Prior to this he was an Associate Professor of Pathology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY.

 

Dr. Godfrey's research is focused on cancer genetics and molecular pathology. Research projects use state-of-the-art genetic and genomic approaches to address clinical needs in the areas of cancer diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. Currently the major focus of Dr. Godfrey's research is on Barrett's esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma; a tumor with rapidly increasing incidence in the United States and other western countries. The Godfrey lab works closely with translational research teams comprised of surgeons, pathologists and oncologists in order to develop new molecular approaches to cancer detection, staging and treatment.


             
Dr. Litle
Virginia Litle, MD

Virginia Litle, MD - Thoracic Surgery

Associate Professor of Surgery 

 

Virginia Litle, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, is a graduate of the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT and received her medical degree from the Brown-Dartmouth Program in Medicine in Providence, RI.  

 

Dr. Litle completed her residency in general surgery at the University of California in San Francisco, CA and completed fellowships in both Surgical Oncology and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, PA.

 

Most recently, Dr. Litle was an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY. 

 

Dr. Litle's clinical interests include management of benign and malignant esophageal diseases including Barrett's esophagus, achalasia and esophageal cancer, minimally invasive esophageal surgery and endoscopic procedures including minimally invasive esophagectomy, endoscopic resection and Barrx ablation of Barrett's esophagus. Dr. Litle also offers VATS lobectomy for lung cancer, airway and esophageal stenting and laser treatment for palliation of lung and esophagus cancer. 

 

At Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Dr. Litle will be Director of the Barrett's Esophagus Program and Director of Thoracic Clinical Research. 

 

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