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Tari A. King, MD, has been appointed the Anne E. Dyson Associate Professor of Surgery in the Field of Women’s Cancers at Harvard Medical School.

Tari A. King, MD
Associate Chair for Multidisciplinary Oncology, Department of Surgery
Chief, Breast Surgery, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center
Anne E. Dyson Associate Professor of Surgery in the Field of Women’s Cancers, Harvard Medical School

Tari A. King, MD, is the chief of Breast Surgery at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center (DF/BWCC), the associate division chief for Breast Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. She also directs the efforts of the Breast Cancer Personalized Risk assessment, Education and Prevention (B-PREP) Program at BWH. Dr. King received her medical degree from University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and completed a General Surgery Residency at Ochsner Clinic Foundation Hospital (now Ochsner Medical Center) in New Orleans. She completed both a Surgical Research Fellowship and a Breast Surgery Clinical Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Dr. King leads the clinical, research, and educational activities of the breast surgical service while also maintaining an active clinical practice devoted to the diagnosis and surgical treatment of breast cancer. Her clinical and research efforts focus on improving clinical management strategies for women at high risk of developing breast cancer with a special emphasis on lobular carcinoma in situ. She also has an interest in the role of surgery in Stage IV breast cancer and through the Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium (TBCRC) she successfully initiated and completed accrual to a multi-center trial addressing this issue.

She has received several awards to support her work on the molecular genetics of lobular carcinoma in situ, including the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) Clinical Investigator Award in Breast Cancer Research (2008), a Career Catalyst Award (2009), an Investigator Initiated Research Award (2012) and a leadership grant from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation (2016). Dr. King currently serves on the Steering Committee for the TBCRC and the NCI Breast Oncology Local Disease Task Force and is the vice chair of the Quality Committee for the SSO.

The following Department of Surgery faculty members were recently promoted:

Yoon S. Chun, MD, of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery was promoted to associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

 

Christopher T. Ducko, MD, of the  Division of Thoracic Surgery was promoted to assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

 

Simon G. Talbot, MD, of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery was promoted to associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

 

Jon O. Wee, MD, of the Division of Thoracic Surgery was promoted to assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Reza Askari, MD, has been appointed BWH Surgery Clerkship director. In this important role, he will oversee the Core Surgery rotation during the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Primary Clinical Experience.

Reza Askari, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Trauma, Burn, Surgical & Critical Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Surgical Critical Care Director, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Program Director, Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Reza Askari, MD, is an associate surgeon in the Division of Trauma, Burn, Surgical & Critical Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and instructor in surgery at Harvard Medical School.

He received his medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine and completed a General Surgery Residency at George Washington University Medical Center. Dr. Askari completed a Trauma and Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Virginia Medical Center.

Dr. Askari has been serving as assistant Surgery Clerkship director since 2014. He has been widely recognized for educational efforts and received numerous teaching awards from both Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Department of Surgery at BWH, including recipient for excellence in tutorial facilitation from HMS for academic years 2011-2015; the 2012-2013 faculty teaching award for medical student teaching by the BWH Department of Surgery for the surgery clerkship; and was the repeat recipient of the Richard E. Wilson Award from the DOS in 2013 and 2016.

He is an active member of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma and holds multiple committee roles for the Surgical Infection Society. Dr. Askari is active in clinical research in the areas of critical care, trauma and acute care surgery, with a primary focus on surgical infections particularly in patients with immunosuppression.

His clinical interests include trauma, critical care, surgical nutrition and antibiotic stewardship in surgery.