Welcoming New Faculty – John Young, MD

Please join us in welcoming John Young, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

John Young, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Thoracic Surgery

Dr. Young graduated from Harvard University and obtained his medical degree from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He completed a general surgery residency at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a cardiovascular and thoracic surgery fellowship at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He most recently completed a minimally invasive thoracic surgery fellowship at the Brigham. He is board certified in general surgery.

In 2007, Dr. Young was an American Gastroenterological Association student research fellow at the Brigham in the lab of Stanley W. Ashley, MD, and Ali Tavakkoli, MD.

Dr. Young’s research interests include immunology, lung transplantation and thoracic oncology. His clinical areas of interest include all aspects of adult general thoracic surgery, end-stage lung disease, lung transplantation, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), as well as utilization of the robotic surgical platform.

Welcoming New Faculty – George Molina, MD, MPH

Please join us in welcoming George Molina, MD, MPH, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

George Molina, MD, MPH
Associate Surgeon, Division of Surgical Oncology

Dr. Molina graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BS in cellular and molecular biology. He obtained his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and he completed an MPH in quantitative methods at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his general surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellowship in complex surgical oncology at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Hospital Cancer Center and Massachusetts General Hospital.

As part of his general surgery training, Dr. Molina also completed a two-year postgraduate research fellowship at Ariadne Labs, where he worked on projects in health systems innovation and research, global surgery modeling, clinical studies in surgical oncology, surgical safety culture in inpatient and ambulatory settings and impact of a surgical safety checklist program.

He is board certified in general surgery, and he is a member of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO).

Dr. Molina’s clinical and research interests include improving the safety, quality and equity of surgical care through health systems innovation. He is also interested in understanding the impact of fragmentation of cancer care on disparities in surgical outcomes in the United States. Dr. Molina will be conducting his research at the Center for Surgery and Public Health and at Ariadne Labs.

Welcoming New Faculty – Alison Laws, MD

Please join us in welcoming Alison Laws, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Alison Laws, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Breast Surgery

Dr. Laws graduated from the University of British Columbia and obtained her medical degree from McMaster University. She completed a general surgery residency at the University of Calgary and a breast surgical oncology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

She is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a member of the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) and the American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBrS).

Dr. Laws’ clinical and research interests include optimizing oncologic outcomes after breast cancer surgery, improving cancer care delivery through implementation of evidence-based practices, as well as managing patients at high-risk for breast cancer.