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Jennifer J. Shin, MD, has been appointed vice chair of Academic Affairs at Longwood Campus for the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Otolaryngology. She will have responsibility for Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.  Dr. Shin will also serve on the HMS Executive Committee and help oversee promotions and academic advancement of our faculty.

Jennifer J. Shin, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Otolaryngology
Associate Professor of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School

Jennifer J. Shin, MD, is an associate professor in the Division of Otolaryngology. She is a graduate of Harvard Radcliffe College and Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency and fellowship training in the Harvard Program, and was a fellow of the National Institute of Health and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She also holds a degree in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Shin has a longstanding interest in evidence-based practice, and serves as Chair of the Outcomes Research and Evidence-Based Medicine Leadership Group for the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation. She also served as co-chair of the expert panel convened by the Academy to develop their national Clinical Consensus Statement on Pediatric Chronic Rhinosinusitis and as vice chair of the Clinical Practice Guideline on Otitis Media with Effusion, a multidisciplinary effort supported by the American Academy of Family Practice, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and American Academy of Pediatrics. She also chairs one of the specialty’s seven Clinical Advisory Committees, which are joint ventures between the American Board of Otolaryngology, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and subspecialty societies such as the American Laryngological Association and the American Neurotology Society.

Her first book, Evidence-Based Otolaryngology (2008), was among the publisher’s most accessed works and has had over 42,000 accessions.

Robert Riviello, MD, MPH, has received a $1M gift from the Steven C. and Carmella R. Kletjian Foundation to support his global surgery work. As Center for Surgery and Public Health (CSPH) director of Global Surgery Programs, Dr. Riviello is working to reduce surgical disparities and improve delivery of care in developing nations.

 

Robert Riviello, MD, MPH
Associate Surgeon, Division of Trauma, Burn, Surgical & Critical Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Director of Global Surgery Programs, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Robert Riviello, MD, MPH, is an associate surgeon in the Division of Trauma, Burn, Surgical & Critical Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and serves as director of Global Surgery for the BWH Center for Surgery and Public Health (CSPH).

He received his medical degree from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Riviello completed a General Surgery Residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN and was a Fulbright International Fellow in Global Surgery at Centro Evangelico de Medicina in Lubango, Angola. He completed both an Acute Care and Burn Surgery Fellowship and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at BWH.

Dr. Riviello serves nine months yearly at BWH in the fields of trauma, acute care surgery and burn care. He also serves three months yearly in sub-Saharan Africa in strengthening surgical services, surgical training and surgical device innovation. His clinical and research interests are in global health, specifically the reduction of disparities and the expansion of surgical delivery for low-income populations by developing surgical workforce and surgical infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa.

Ronald Bleday, MD, has been appointed associate chair for Quality and Patient Safety in the Department of Surgery. Dr. Bleday will lead and enable safe and efficient approaches to inpatient surgical care at Brigham Health and will be responsible for optimizing the quality and safety of inpatient care provided by practitioners in the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Brigham and Women’s-Faulkner Hospital (BWFH).

Ronald Bleday, MD
Associate Chair for Quality and Patient Safety, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Section Chief, Colon and Rectal Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Ronald Bleday, MD, is section chief of the Division of Colorectal Surgery and program director for the Colorectal Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center (DF/BWCC). In addition, he is an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Bleday received his medical degree from McGill University School of Medicine, completed a General Surgery Residency at Brown University School of Medicine and a Surgery and Trauma Residency at Rhode Island Hospital. He completed his Surgical Oncology Fellowships at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women’s Hospital and New England Deaconess Hospital/Harvard Surgical Service, his Surgical Endoscopy Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and his Colon and Rectal Surgery Fellowship at the University of Minnesota.

He currently serves as secretary of the Research Foundation of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS) and as a member of the Nation Cancer Institute (NCI) Gastrointestinal Cancer Steering Committee’s (GISC) Rectal Anal Task Force.

The author of over 50 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Bleday’s research focuses on the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ASCOSOG) local excision study, stool-based biomarker research, laparoscopic vs. open colectomy and tumor bank accrual. He worked on implementing Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) and Surgical Site Infection (SSI) reduction protocols at BWH and is part of the Executive Committee of the Partners Colorectal Surgery Collaborative.

Dr. Bleday has clinical interests in anorectal surgery, cancer surgery, colon disease and surgery, Crohn’s disease, diverticular disease, laparoscopic surgery, rectal surgery, sphincter sparing surgery and ulcerative colitis.