Surgery News & Notes

Please join us in welcoming Joel T. Adler, MD, MPH, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Joel T. Adler, MD, MPH
Associate Surgeon, Division of Transplant Surgery

Dr. Adler is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, received his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and completed an MPH at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  He completed a residency in General Surgery 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 a particular interest in living donation and highly sensitized transplant recipients.  His research interests include population and public health-based improvements to improve access to transplantation.

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

Justin Broyles, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Broyles received his medical degree from the University of Texas at Houston, followed by a residency in integrated plastic surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital/University of Maryland Shock Trauma and a fellowship in reconstructive microsurgery at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Dr. Broyles brings expertise in head to toe reconstructive microsurgery with particular interest in oncoplastic and microsurgical breast surgery, head and neck reconstruction, abdominal wall/trunk reconstruction and craniofacial trauma.

His research interests include: strategies to improve efficiency and optimize resource utilization in reconstructive surgery, approaches to improve the surgical experience for reconstructive surgery patients and clinical outcomes in oncological reconstruction.

Please join us in welcoming John C. Kubasiak, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

John C. Kubasiak, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Trauma, Burn, Surgical and Critical Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Kubasiak is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and received his medical degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL. He completed a residency in general surgery at Rush University Medical Center and John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County in Chicago, IL, followed by fellowships in both surgical critical care and burn surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX.

He is board certified by the America Board of Surgery in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.

His research and clinical interests include: clinical and biomarkers for frailty, management of complex and chronic soft tissue wounds, management of thermal injuries and management of complex hernias.