Welcoming New Faculty – Priti Lalchandani, MD

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

Priti Lalchandani, MD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Trauma, Burn and Surgical Critical Care

Dr. Lalchandani graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a Bachelor of Science in biology and received her medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed general surgery training at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and an acute care surgery/surgical critical care fellowship at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.

She is certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a member of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST). 

Prior to joining the Brigham, Dr. Lalchandani worked as a physician for Kaiser Permanente, focusing on surgical inpatient care and in-house surgical consultation, and as a clinical researcher at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, comparing outcomes of antibiotics versus appendectomy for appendicitis.

Dr. Lalchandani’s clinical and research interests include interpersonal violence, recidivism and surgical education.