Marcus E. Semel, MD, MPH, Named Interim Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Marcus Semel, MD, MPH
Interim Chief, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Program Director, John Homan’s Fellowship in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Semel is a vascular and endovascular surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and South Shore Hospital. He serves as the program director for the John Homans’ Fellowship in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and as the director for the division’s Vein Center. He completed both his surgery residency and fellowship training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Semel was a Homans’ Fellow in Vascular Surgery under Dr. Belkin from 2012-2014.

Raphael Bueno, MD, Named Richard E. Wilson Professor of Surgery in the Field of Surgical Oncology at Harvard Medical School

Raphael Bueno, MD
Fredric G. Levin Distinguished Chair in Thoracic Surgery and Lung Cancer Research, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Co-Director, Lung Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Richard E. Wilson Professor of Surgery in the Field of Surgical Oncology, Harvard Medical School

Raphael Bueno, MD, is chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Fredric Levin Distinguished Chair in Thoracic Surgery and Lung Cancer Research and the Richard E. Wilson Professor of Surgery in the Field of Surgical Oncology at Harvard Medical School. He completed his bachelor’s degree at Harvard College and medical training at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He subsequently trained in general surgery at the Brigham and thoracic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and joined the Brigham thoracic faculty in 1996. Over the past 21 years, Dr. Bueno has developed robust clinical and research portfolios at the Brigham. He has also mentored many fellows and staff and previously served as the cardiothoracic residency director at the Brigham.

His clinical focus is management of thoracic malignancies particularly mesothelioma, lung cancer, and esophageal cancer. His main research interests center on the molecular events that lead to malignancy in mesothelioma and lung cancer. Specifically, Dr. Bueno focuses on developing biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis, and predicting therapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma and lung cancer. His research also includes tumor sequencing and identification of targetable pathways. He runs a molecular biology lab at the George W. Thorn Medical Research Building and has been funded for almost two decades by the National Cancer Institute, Department of Defense, and various foundations and industry grants. He has invented, patented and licensed several algorithms and medical devices for patient care, some having been licensed by industry. Dr. Bueno has also invented and continues to develop several novel surgical procedures and devices.

Dr. Bueno is a member of numerous prestigious national and international professional societies. He has been an invited lecturer at teaching hospitals and universities around the country and internationally. At the Brigham, he has built the largest division of thoracic surgery in the U.S., with 25 faculty members and five affiliated network sites in New England and co-founded the Brigham Lung Center and the Lung Research Center. Dr. Bueno continues to push the boundaries of what is possible in patient care.

Welcoming New Faculty – O. Yusef Kudsi, MD, MBA

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Kudsi as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

O. Yusef Kudsi, MD, MBA
Associate Surgeon, Part-time, Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery

Dr. Kudsi earned his medical degree from the University of Aleppo in Syria, followed by a postdoctoral research fellowship in tissue engineering at the Brigham, a surgical residency at Lankenau Medical Center, a minimally invasive surgery (MIS) fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and an advanced MIS travelling fellowship at IRCAD Institute and the University Hospital of Strasbourg in France. He pursued an MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship and co-founded DigitalSurgical, which has its own patented technology in intra-operative real-time 3D micrometer scanning and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Kudsi has performed over 3,500 robotic surgeries, assisted in setting up robotic programs in the Americas, Europe, and Asia and has taught hernia surgery to over 1,000 surgeons. Throughout his career, he has assumed prominent leadership roles at Clinical Robotic Surgery Association (CRSA), the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and the Association for Surgical Education (ASE). He founded the Robotic Surgery Collaboration (RSC), a vicarious learning platform that brings together more than 10,000 surgeons to discuss the latest in robotic surgery and to learn how to effectively integrate robotic surgery at their institutions, and he has organized numerous international summits.

Dr. Kudsi also established an accredited MIS fellowship and a funded clinical research fellowship focused on abdominal wall reconstruction, robotic and artificial intelligence surgery. He has written over 100 original peer reviewed articles, abstracts and book chapters and is the editor of five robotic textbooks with over 100 national and international presentations.

Dr. Kudsi’s clinical interests include robotic complex abdominal wall reconstruction and abdominal core health. His research interests include machine learning, artificial intelligence and digital surgery.