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Zara Cooper, MD, MSc, FACS, has been appointed associate chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Surgery. Dr. Cooper has responsibility for supporting the career development of the faculty members of the Department of Surgery (DOS) through direct interactions, contributions to DOS and Brigham and Women’s Physician Organization (BWPO) policy development and the mentoring of mentors within the DOS.

Zara Cooper, MD, MSc, FACS
Associate Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Deputy Director, Strategy and Partnerships, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Zara Cooper, MD, MSc, FACS, is an acute care surgeon, trauma surgeon and surgical intensivist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). Dr. Cooper is an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, deputy director of Strategic Planning and Partnerships at the Center for Surgery and Public Health (CSPH) at BWH and associate faculty at Ariadne Labs in Boston, MA. A graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dr. Cooper completed her General Surgery Residency and Critical Care Fellowship at BWH; a Trauma Fellowship at Harborview Medical Center and the University of Washington in Seattle; and training in hospice and palliative medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and BWH.

Dr. Cooper’s research aims to improve palliative and geriatric care for older seriously ill surgical patients. A national leader in surgical palliative care and geriatric trauma, she has authored over 80 peer-reviewed manuscripts, chapters, and abstracts and lectures nationally about surgical care in complex older patients.

Dr. Cooper is currently funded through the National Institutes of Aging Paul B. Beeson Leadership in Aging Award, the Cambia Foundation Sojourns Scholarship and is a co-investigator on multiple federally funded grants. She is chair of the Prevention Committee for the American Association of the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), on the Executive Council of the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) and serves on the Geriatrics Task Force and Palliative Care Committee for the American College of Surgeons (ACS).

Tari A. King, MD, has been appointed associate chair for Multidisciplinary Oncology in the Department of Surgery. Dr. King will both lead and enable innovative and efficient approaches to oncology patient care at Brigham Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She will be responsible for optimizing oncology care provided by Department of Surgery practitioners in areas such as patient access, ambulatory care and care coordination.

Tari A. King, MD
Associate Chair for Multidisciplinary Oncology, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Chief, Breast Surgery, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center
Associate Professor of Surgery, 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.

Malcolm K. Robinson, MD, has been appointed associate chair of Clinical Operations in the Department of Surgery. Dr. Robinson will lead and enable innovative and efficient approaches to patient care at Brigham Health. He will be responsible for optimizing patient access, ambulatory care, ambulatory documentation and charge capture, as well as operating room access for the Department of Surgery.

Malcolm K. Robinson, MD
Associate Chair of Clinical Operations, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Malcolm K. Robinson, MD, is a associate surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Robinson received his college degree from Harvard University and medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed his General Surgery Residency and advanced fellowships in Nutrition and General Surgery at BWH.

The author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, abstracts and editor-in-chief of a new textbook on nutrition, Dr. Robinson’s clinical interests include bariatric surgery, nutrition support of patients with complex nutrition issues and general and laparoscopic surgery. His research focuses on nutrition, metabolism and how to optimize weight loss surgery.

Dr. Robinson serves on the editorial board of Obesity Surgery, is a national surveyor of bariatric surgery centers seeking accreditation as a center of excellence by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and is also director of the hospital’s nutrition support service. He lectures locally, nationally and internationally on the topics of bariatric surgery and nutrition support.