Author: Department of Surgery

Thomas E. Clancy, MD
Director, Pancreas Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology
Co-Director, Pancreatic and Biliary Tumor Center, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center
Director, Program in Robotic/Minimally Invasive Pancreatic and Liver Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Clancy is a senior surgeon and Distinguished Scholar in Surgical Oncology in the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he is also the director of the Program in Robotic/Minimally Invasive Pancreatic and Liver Surgery. He is a senior staff member and surgical lead at the Gastrointestinal Cancer Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and co-director of the Pancreas and Biliary Tumor Center at the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center. Dr. Clancy received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed general surgical residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, followed by a surgical oncology fellowship at the Brigham and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Dr. Clancy specializes in surgery for complex gastrointestinal malignancies, with a focus on pancreatic tumors, primary and metastatic liver tumors, biliary malignancies and neuroendocrine tumors. He has a particular focus on minimally invasive and robotic surgical techniques for gastrointestinal tumors.

An author of over 75 scientific publications, reviews and book chapters, Dr. Clancy works in a collaborative model with numerous basic and translational scientific researchers on projects related to the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal malignancies and pancreatic disease, as well as clinical outcomes in pancreatic surgery.  

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
  

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

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.