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.