Harvard Surgical HSR Speaker Series
The Center for Surgery and Public Health showcases Health Services Research (HSR) experts from the Harvard and Mass General Brigham campuses and across the country as part of the Harvard Surgical HSR Speaker Series.
The goals of the Harvard Surgical HSR speaker series are to share research methods and findings, disseminate best practices, and identify potential shared interests and areas of collaboration. Seminars are held 6-9 times over the course of the year. They are open to the public, but will be most relevant to academic surgeons, residents, researchers, students and collaborators across the Harvard community.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for research faculty and trainees
Course Director
Michele and Howard J. Kessler Distinguished Chair of Surgery and Public Health
Kessler Director, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Director, Center for Geriatric Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
ACCREDITATION
In support of improving patient care, Mass General Brigham is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Mass General Brigham designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Next Harvard Surgical HSR Speaker:
Justin Clapp, PhD, MPH
Medical ‘Decision Making’: New Directions Based on an Alternative View of Language
March 7, 2023
4:00-5:00 p.m. ET
Presented in Collaboration with the Division of Trauma, Burn, and Surgical Critical Care
2021-2022 Schedule
TAVR: New Technology and New Frontiers for Old Tricks
September 13, 2022
Speaker: Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
The Surgeon-AI Partnership: Leveraging Clinician Intuition to Improve Algorithms
October 11, 2022
Speaker: Gabriel Brat, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
The Organization and Financing of Surgical Care under Population-based Alternative Payment Models: Insights from the Maryland Natural Experiment
November 8, 2022
Speaker: Anaeze Offodile, MD, MPH
A Research Agenda to Meet the Palliative Care Needs of Patients with Advanced Liver Disease
December 6, 2022
Nneka Ufere, MD, MSCE, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Performance Monitoring and Surgeon Coaching to Enhance Patient Outcomes: The TopSurgeons Project
January 17, 2023
Speaker: Antione Duclos, MD, PhD, Université Claude Bernard Lyon
Medical ‘Decision Making’: New Directions Based on an Alternative View of Language
March 7, 2023
Speaker: Justin Clapp, PhD, MPH
April 4, 2023
Nelya Melnitchouk, MD, MSc
May 9, 2023
Speaker: Lisa Knowlton, MD, MSc