Harvard Surgical HSR Speaker Series: Anaeze C. Offodile II, MD, MPH | Nov. 8, 2022
Harvard Surgical HSR Speaker Series The Organization and Financing of Surgical Care under Population-based Alternative Payment Models: Insights from the Maryland Natural Experiment Anaeze C. Offodile II, MD, MPH Executive Director, Clinical Transformation Assistant Professor in the Departments of Plastic Surgery and Health Services Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center Anaeze C. Offodile II MD MPH […]
Harvard Surgical HSR Speaker Series: Gabriel Brat, MD, MPH | Oct. 11, 2022
Harvard Surgical HSR Speaker Series The Surgeon-AI Partnership: Leveraging Clinician Intuition to Improve Algorithms Gabriel Brat, MD, MPH, FACS Assistant Professor of Surgery and Bioinformatics, Harvard Medical SchoolDirector, BIDMC/HMS Surgical Informatics LabDirector of Research, Division of Acute Care, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Gabriel Brat is a trauma surgeon and […]
Harvard Surgical HSR Speaker Series: Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD | Sept. 13, 2022
Harvard Surgical HSR Speaker Series TAVR: New technology and new frontier for old tricks Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School Surgical Director, Structural Heart Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Dr. Kaneko received his medical degree from Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo. He then completed a general surgery residency at […]
Fear, Discrimination Are Barriers to Advance Care Planning for Sexual and Gender Minority People
Fear, Discrimination Are Barriers to Advance Care Planning for Sexual and Gender Minority People July 28, 2022 Haley Bridger, BWH Research Briefs Conversations about end-of-life care and advance care planning are deeply personal and sensitive. If we want to engage patients in these kinds of conversations, we need to ensure that they feel safe telling […]
Should Recommendations for Cancer Screening Differentiate on Race?
Should Recommendations for Cancer Screening Differentiate on Race? May 24, 2022 In a new editorial in New England Journal of Medicine Evidence, H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH and Adewole S. Adamson, MD, MPP, discuss the pros and cons of differentiating recommendations for cancer screening based on race and whether more resources should be put towards […]
Where Americans Die – Is there really no place like home” | NEJM
Where Americans Die – Is there really no place like home? May 24, 2022 In a perspective published in the New England Journal of Medicine on March 17, 2022, Brigham and Women’s researchers Melissa W. Wachterman, MD, MPH, Elizabeth A. Luth, PhD, Robert Semco, BSE, and Joel S. Weissman, PhD, discuss the shift for end […]
Women and Lower-Income Patients Have Higher Rates of Death After Heart Surgeries
Women and Lower-Income Patients Have Higher Rates of Death After Heart Surgeries April 22, 2022 By Haley Bridger Original research brief located here. Female patients had fewer surgeries, more urgent procedures, and higher mortality rates than males Patients from lower-income neighborhoods had higher comorbidity burdens and received less care at urban/academic medical centers Advancements in techniques […]
Job Opportunity: FORTE Research Assistant
Now hiring a Research Assistant for the Functional Outcomes and Recovery after Trauma Emergencies (FORTE) project. Apply here Posted: April 18, 2022 Research Assistant II / 40 Hours / Days / Division of Trauma, Burn, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery – (3192707) GENERAL SUMMARY/ OVERVIEW STATEMENT: Summarize the nature and level of work performed. The […]
Effects of telemedicine in surgical care for historically underrepresented groups
Effects of telemedicine in surgical care for historically underrepresented groups April 5, 2022 “We can use digital health to reach populations that have historically not had optimal access to our health care system. In the past decade, smart-phone usage has greatly increased in the United States… We are doing our best to meet patients where […]
Climate Change and Surgery
Climate Change and Surgery March 25, 2022 “Hospitals play a major part in GHG [Green House Gas] emissions, but one space contributes more significantly than any other: the operating room.” In a recent article in Think Global Health, researchers from the Center for Surgery and Public Health and the Program for Global Surgery and Social […]
