Surgery News & Notes

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

 

 

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.

Please join us in welcoming Gustavo J. Bauzá, MD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

 

Gustavo J. Bauzá, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Trauma, Burn, Surgical and Critical Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Bauzá is a graduate of Villanova University in Villanova, PA and received his medical degree from the Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. He completed a residency in General Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine followed by a fellowship in Surgical Critical Care at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ.

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

His research and clinical interests include management and outcomes in both trauma and sepsis.

David J. Sugarbaker, MD, former chief of Thoracic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, passed away on August 29, 2018. He was 65.

Dr. Sugarbaker served as chief of Thoracic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for 27 years before stepping down in 2014 to create the Lung Institute at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.

During his dedicated service to the Brigham, Dr. Sugarbaker shaped the Division of Thoracic Surgery into one of the top in the nation. He pioneered the technique of extrapleural pneumonectomy and its application to patients with mesothelioma, developed innovative multimodality therapies and directed translational research programs in this disease that are known worldwide.

Dr. Sugarbaker attended Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL and Cornell University Medical College in New York City. He completed his residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and his cardiothoracic training at the Toronto General Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. Following his training, he returned to BWH as chief of the then newly formed Division of Thoracic Surgery. He also served as the Richard E. Wilson Professor of Surgical Oncology at Harvard Medical School. During his tenure at HMS, he mentored many residents in both the General Surgery Program and the Cardiothoracic Program.

Click here to read his obituary.