Ali Salim, MD, FACS, Appointed Associate Chair of Surgical Critical Care

Ali Salim, MD, FACS, has been appointed associate chair of Surgical Critical Care in the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). In this new role, Ali is accountable for the 24-hour operational management, implementation and evaluation of staff and patients on the Surgical directed Intensive Care Units (S-ICU), including general surgery, trauma/burn, thoracic and cardiac surgery. Additionally, he will collaborate with the medical directors and chiefs of the Divisions of Trauma, Burn, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Cardiac Surgery and the chair for the Department of Surgery in the development of S-ICU service programs and processes to serve the inpatient, outpatient and community needs, with implementation of effective cost containment measures.

 

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Ali Salim, MD, FACS

 

Ali Salim, MD, FACS
Associate Chair of Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery
Division Chief, Trauma, Burn, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery
Professor of Surgery
, Harvard Medical School

Ali Salim, MD, FACS, is a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and the chief of the Division of Trauma, Burn, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery at the Brigham and Woman’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, MA. He leads a team of trauma specialists in providing expert, multidisciplinary care for thousands of trauma and burn patients each year.

Prior to joining BWH, Dr. Salim was an attending physician and program director of the General Surgery Residency Educational Program, and director of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Duke University, a master’s degree from Columbia University, and his medical degree from the Howard University College of Medicine. Dr. Salim completed his general surgery internship and residency as well as his fellowship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.

Dr. Salim is both a Traumatologist and a Surgical Intensivist at BWH. He is a clinically active trauma, general, and critical care surgeon and devotes his time with equal intensity to research, surgical education and clinical service. His clinical interests focus on the care of the acutely ill trauma, emergency surgery and intensive care unit patient. Dr. Salim’s clinical research is focused on the care and outcomes of trauma patients, traumatic brain injury, improving the physiology of organ donors and improving the rate of organ donation. He has authored or co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications. His most recent research has focused on racial disparities in organ donation for which Dr. Salim was a principal investigator for a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Matthew J. Carty, MD, Awarded $3M Department of Defense Grant to Study New Surgical Approach to Upper Extremity Amputation

Matthew J. Carty, MD, has been awarded a $3M Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program (PRORP) grant for his study, “A Novel Approach to Upper-Extremity Amputation to Augment Volitional Motor Control and Restore Proprioception.

This clinical trial will evaluate a fundamentally new surgical approach to upper extremity amputation, with the goal of providing significantly improved voluntary motor control and restored sense of position (proprioception) in the residual limb. This surgical approach is also the focus of an ongoing parallel study in lower extremities. The proposed study is aligned with the PRORP-Clinical Trial Award Surgical Care Focus area, specifically Soft Tissue Trauma.

 

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Matthew J. Carty, MD

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 – Mark Fairweather, MD

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

 

Mark Fairweather, MD
Mark Fairweather, MD

 

Mark Fairweather, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Surgical Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Fairweather is a graduate of Hanover College in Hanover, IN and received his medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, KY. 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.

He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery.

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.