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Mark Fairweather, MD, has been named associate program director for the Brigham General Surgery Residency Program focusing on resident research development and surgical curriculum.

Mark Fairweather, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Surgical Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Program Director, General Surgery Residency Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Fairweather is a graduate of Hanover College and received his medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He completed a residency in general surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital followed by a fellowship in complex general surgical oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Dr. Fairweather’s clinical interests include cancers of the gastrointestinal tract and soft-tissue sarcomas.  In addition to research on treatment outcomes for sarcoma, including retroperitoneal sarcomas and gastrointestinal stromal tumors, he also serves as an executive officer for the Alliance Foundation Trials, LLC (AFT), where his work focuses on developing and validating methods of capturing high-quality real-world data alongside ongoing clinical trials.

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.

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.

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