Mark Fairweather, MD, Named Program Director of the Mass General Brigham/Dana-Farber Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship at Harvard Medical School

Mark Fairweather, MD
Program Director, Mass General Brigham/Dana-Farber Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship, Harvard Medical School
Associate Program Director, Brigham General Surgery Residency, Department of Surgery
Director, Advanced Surgery Clerkships, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Fairweather joined the faculty in the Division of Surgical Oncology at the Brigham in 2018, specializing in GI/HPB and sarcoma. He 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.