Joel Adler, MD, MPH, Named Associate Program Director of the Brigham General Surgery Residency Program and Fellowship Director at the Center for Surgery and Public Health

Joel Adler, MD, MPH, has been named associate program director for the Brigham General Surgery Residency Program focusing on resident research development, specifically for Health Services and Outcomes Research. In addition, he has been appointed fellowship director at the Center for Surgery and Public Health (CSPH), a joint initiative of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Joel Adler, MD, MPH
Associate Surgeon, Division of Transplant Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Program Director,
General Surgery Residency Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Fellowship Director,
Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Surgery,
Harvard Medical School

Dr. Adler is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, where he also received his medical degree. He completed an MPH at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed a general surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by a fellowship in abdominal transplantation at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

His clinical interests include kidney and pancreas transplantation, with an interest in living donation and highly sensitized transplant recipients. His research interests include population and public health-based improvements to improve access to transplantation.

2020 Department of Surgery Annual Report

Over the past year, the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital has continued to build on our proud history of clinical and academic achievement. This report highlights just some of the many examples of our ongoing commitment to excellence in clinical care, research and surgical education.

To view or download the report click here.

Welcoming New Faculty – Farhad Rikhtegar Nezami, PhD

Please join us in welcoming Farhad Rikhtegar Nezami, PhD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Farhad Rikhtegar Nezami, PhD
Lead Investigator, Division of Cardiac Surgery

Dr. Nezami graduated from the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, Iran with a BSc in aerospace engineering, for which he also obtained an MSc from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. He holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

Before coming to the Brigham, Dr. Nezami worked at the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center as a research scientist and project leader. At the Brigham, he will leverage his expertise in bioinformatics, computational modeling and vascular biology from a pathophysiologic perspective to achieve clinical impact by using multifaceted systems with complex biological and mechanical interactions. Dr. Nezami’s primary focus is on using computational methods to develop tractable and provably reliable test systems and novel data-driven design and optimization platforms to provide mechanistic understanding of pathologies; asses the efficacy and optimize medical devices; and deliver predictive means, diagnostic tools and surgical guidelines to clinicians.

Dr. Nezami’s research interests thus include computational pathophysiology (biofluid dynamics, biomechanics, mathematical modeling); machine learning to analyze clinical data, diagnostics/prognostics and clinical decision making; deep learning for medical image processing (fusion of modalities, plaque characterization, etc.); data-driven design/optimization of medical devices and interventions; virtual surgery using Al and in silico predictive/prognostic tools; as well as drug delivery, solute transport, pharmacokinetics and optimization.