Welcoming New Faculty – Shailesh Agarwal, MD

Please join us in welcoming Shailesh Agarwal, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Shailesh Agarwal, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Dr. Agarwal received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and received his medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He then completed his residency training in Plastic Surgery and an NIH-funded post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Michigan. He subsequently completed a fellowship in microsurgical reconstruction at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Agarwal’s clinical interests include reconstruction of the breast, lymphatic system, chest wall, trunk/lower extremity, and head/neck, as well as gender surgery. Dr. Agarwal’s laboratory research is centered on genetic and epigenetic re-programming to modify cell function for tissue regeneration.

Matthew J. Carty, MD, Awarded $2.9M Department of Defense Grant

Matthew J. Carty, MD, has been awarded a $2.9M Department of Defense grant for his study, “A Novel Approach to Lower Extremity Residual Limb Revision to Augment Volitional Motor Control, Restore Proprioception, and Reverse Limb Atrophy.”

The objective of the study is to modify the residual limbs of patients who have already undergone lower extremity amputations so as to include biological actuators that will enable the successful employment of next generation lower extremity prostheses, diminish/eliminate phantom limb pain, restore proprioception and regenerate lost muscle mass.

Matthew J. Carty, MD Headshot

Matthew J. Carty, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Director,  Lower Extremity Transplant Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Matthew J. Carty, MD, is an associate surgeon in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab Center for Extreme Bionics.

Dr. Carty’s clinical expertise is in complex reconstruction of the extremities and trunk, for which he serves as the director of the BWH Lower Extremity Transplant Program and the co-director of the BWH Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction Program.

His primary research interests involve surgical approaches to maximize limb function in the setting of severe traumatic injury, including novel procedures related to limb amputation, limb salvage and bioprosthetic neural linkage systems.

Welcoming New Faculty – James Yoo, MD

Please join us in welcoming James Yoo, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

James Yoo, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery

Dr. Yoo is a graduate of Brown University and received his medical degree from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. He completed a residency in General Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center followed by a fellowship in Colon & Rectal Surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Most recently, Dr. Yoo was chief of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery and vice chair of the Department of Surgery at Tufts Medical Center. Prior to joining Tufts, he was chief of Colon & Rectal Surgery and co-director of the Colorectal Cancer Program at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Dr. Yoo is board certified by the America Board of Surgery and the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery. He serves as associate editor of the Journal of Surgical Research.

His research and clinical interests include: inflammatory bowel disease, colon and rectal cancer, minimally invasive surgical approaches, the tumor microenvironment and colitis-associated cancer.