Surgery News & Notes

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.

Please join us in welcoming Thomas C. Tsai, MD, MPH, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Thomas C. Tsai, MD, MPH
Associate Surgeon, Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery

Dr. Tsai is a graduate of Harvard College, received his medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed an MPH at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed a residency in General Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital followed by a fellowship in Minimally Invasive Bariatric and Advanced GI Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery.

Dr. Tsai’s clinical interests include the surgical and endoscopic management of gastroesophageal reflux disease, bariatric surgery and complex abdominal wall reconstruction. His current research uses Medicare claims and other large national datasets to study the effectiveness and unintended consequences of health policy interventions on the affordability, accessibility and quality of health care in the United States.

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

Eleni Rettig, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Dr. Rettig is a graduate of Yale University and received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. She completed residency training in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, including a two-year
Otolaryngology research training program. She then completed a fellowship in Advanced Head and Neck Oncologic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

Dr. Rettig is board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. Her clinical expertise includes the surgical treatment of head and neck cancers, salivary gland tumors, cutaneous malignancies, and thyroid and parathyroid tumors; transoral robotic surgery; and microvascular reconstruction of the head and neck. Her research interests include human papillomavirus-associated oropharynx cancer, head and neck cancer epidemiology and health-related quality of life among head and neck cancer patients.