Incoming Interns for AY 2024-2025

We are pleased to report that this year’s residency match results are in. Here are the first-year residents who will be joining our surgical residencies this June.

Categorical General Surgery – Dr. Stephanie Nitzschke, Program Director

  • Lauren de la Parte – University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
  • Pranammya Dey – Yale School of Medicine
  • Tessa Higgins – George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Nicholas Kelly – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Vishal Patel – University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School
  • Kian Riley – Boston University School of Medicine
  • Charlotte Smith – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
  • Angelica Solomon – University of Kentucky College of Medicine
  • Mason Vierra – University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Preliminary General Surgery – Dr. Stephanie Nitzschke, Program Director

  • Rebekah Bihun – Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine
  • Andrew Brook – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • Carla Cadet – Saint Louis University School of Medicine
  • Ali Dzhemiliev – Bogomolets National Medical University, Ukraine
  • Adetomiwa (Victor) Owoseni – Harvard Medical School
  • Emiliano Tabarsi – Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California [IR]
  • Andrew Ahn – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania [IR]

Thoracic Integrated I – 6 – Dr. Michael Jaklitsch, Program Director

  • Olivia McCloskey – Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (cardiac surgery track)
  • Peter Tramontozzi – University of Connecticut School of Medicine (thoracic surgery track)

Harvard Plastic Surgery – Dr. Kyle Eberlin, Program Director; Dr. Lydia Helliwell, Associate Program Director/BWH Site Director

  • Zohra Aslami – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Yunchan (Amy) Chen – Weill Cornell University Medical College
  • Stephen Stearns – Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School / Mass Eye and Ear / Mass General Brigham Program in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery – Dr. Stacey Gray, Program Director; Dr. Alice Maxfield, Associate Program Director/BWH Site Director

  • William Benjamin – University of Michigan Medical School
  • Daniel Bu – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Calvin Kersbergen – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Minjee Kim – Harvard Medical School
  • Sarah Nuss – Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Oral Medicine – Program Director, Dr. Piamkamon Vacharotayangul

  • Alia Alturki – Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia
  • Claire Bisch – University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine
  • Efstathios Pettas – National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Mohamad A. Hussain, MD, PhD, RPVI, FAHA, FRCS, FACS, Named Associate Clerkship Director in the Department of Surgery

As associate clerkship director, Dr. Hussain will assist the clerkship director in the administration of the PCE surgery clerkship, including didactics, evaluation, individual meetings with students, etc.  The clerkship is a rotation of approximately 14 students every 12 weeks. 

Mohamad A. Hussain, MD, PhD, RPVI, FAHA, FRCS, FACS
Associate Clerkship Director, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Hussain is a vascular and endovascular surgeon-scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, core faculty at the Center for Surgery and Public Health and assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is board certified in vascular surgery by both the American Board of Surgery and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

He obtained his medical degree from the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University. He completed a vascular surgery residency and a PhD in clinical epidemiology and health services research through the Surgeon Scientist Training Program at the University of Toronto, followed by a cardiovascular research fellowship at the Brigham.

Dr. Hussain’s clinical practice is focused on general vascular and endovascular surgery, with special interests in complex hemodialysis access surgery, aortic dissection and aneurysm surgery, and thoracic outlet syndrome surgery.

His research lab VESEL (Vascular & Endovascular Surgery Epidemiology Lab) conducts observational and clinical research to improve the care of patients with vascular diseases, with special interests in population-based health services research, prediction with machine learning, enhancing causal inference research using target trial emulation and clinical trials. 

Dr. Hussain also serves at the director of Resident Education and Research in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the Brigham.

Rian M. Hasson, MD, MPH, FACS, Named Inaugural Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Department of Surgery

Rian M. Hasson, MD, MPH, FACS (she/her/hers)
Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Department of Surgery
Associate Surgeon
, Division of Thoracic Surgery

Dr. Hasson completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and premedical studies through the Health Careers Program at Harvard Extension School. She received her medical degree from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, and she holds a Master of Public Health from the Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice. She completed general surgery training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at The Ohio State University and a general thoracic surgery fellowship at Mayo Clinic.

Before joining the Brigham, Dr. Hasson was an assistant professor of surgery at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. She was the director of the Lung Cancer Screening Program and the founding co-director of the Lung Health and Pulmonary Nodule Clinic at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Dr. Hasson is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. She serves on various boards and committees, including the Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS) Board of Directors, the Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS) Women in Surgery Committee, the SBAS Research and Education Committee, the Society of Thoracic Surgery (STS) Mentorship Committee, and is the WTS representative to the STS Taskforce on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She also works as a manuscript reviewer for numerous publications, including Annals of Surgical Oncology, Health Equity, the World Journal of Surgical Oncology, the American Journal of Surgery, the Journal of Surgical Research and JAMA Oncology.

Dr. Hasson’s clinical focus is on surgically treating lung, mediastinal and esophageal malignancies, particularly tailoring care to the unique health needs of underserved communities. In her role as a health services researcher, she aims to enhance referral and participation in LCS among vulnerable populations by forming collaborative partnerships within communities. Supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), she previously investigated barriers and facilitators to LCS access in rural areas through a mobile screening program. Her current focus is to extend this research to urban communities in Boston, with a specific focus on addressing lung cancer disparities in Black/African American/Caribbean populations.

As the inaugural vice chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Department of Surgery, Dr. Hasson is dedicated to cultivating a supportive environment for faculty and trainees that emphasizes inclusion and belonging and prioritizes health equity to enhance patient access and outcomes. Driven by the belief that surgeons need to be forward thinking, she aims to maintain a diverse workforce capable of providing excellent surgical care to patients of all backgrounds.  To achieve these objectives, Dr. Hasson’s initiatives will include establishing a departmental DEI council to promote inclusion and belonging among physicians; implementing the health equity mission; ensuring that our recruitment and retention practices for faculty and trainees foster diversity and inclusive excellence; promoting collaboration across departments; and building community partnerships to reinforce the departmental commitment to culturally sensitive health care delivery.