Category: New Faculty

Please join us in welcoming Fatima G. Wilder, MD, MS, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Fatima G. Wilder, MD, MS
Associate Surgeon, Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery

Dr. Wilder graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and from Pace University with a Master of Science in Teaching. She completed the Ohio State University College of Medicine Medical Careers Pathway Post Baccalaureate Program (MEDPATH) and went on to complete her medical school training at OSU. Her general surgery residency began at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and was completed at UCSF-Fresno. She was a surgical oncology research fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and completed a cardiothoracic surgery clinical fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Dr. Wilder is certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a member of various societies, including the Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS), the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), the Association of Black Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons (ABCTS), and Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS).

Dr. Wilder’s clinical and research interests include lung cancer, esophageal cancer, chest wall diseases, mediastinal diseases and airway tumors. Her research interests include health care disparities, investigating barriers to access to care and optimizing the use of lung cancer screening. She is additionally interested in better understanding the pathophysiology of lung cancer in younger patients, as well as early markers of metastatic lung cancer. She looks forward to working in a collaborative way to meet the needs of our patients while advancing the field of thoracic surgery.

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

Cindy Huynh, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Dr. Huynh graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry and cell biology and received her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She completed general surgery training at SUNY Upstate Medical University and a research fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Huynh received an NRSA institutional postdoctoral training grant (T32) and completed training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Subsequently, she completed a vascular surgery fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco and a research fellowship in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is board certified in general surgery and vascular surgery.

Dr. Huynh’s research interests include characterization and validation of quantitative imaging analysis to improve prediction of patients who will benefit from intervention, as well as development of bioinspired materials with nanoengineered surfaces to promote rapid endothelialization of devices in patients with peripheral arterial disease. Her primary clinical interests are arterial aneurysm, cerebrovascular disease and peripheral arterial disease.

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

Priti Lalchandani, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Trauma, Burn and Surgical Critical Care

Dr. Lalchandani graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a Bachelor of Science in biology and received her medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed general surgery training at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and an acute care surgery/surgical critical care fellowship at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.

She is certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a member of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST). 

Prior to joining the Brigham, Dr. Lalchandani worked as a physician for Kaiser Permanente, focusing on surgical inpatient care and in-house surgical consultation, and as a clinical researcher at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, comparing outcomes of antibiotics versus appendectomy for appendicitis.

Dr. Lalchandani’s clinical and research interests include interpersonal violence, recidivism and surgical education.