BWH Biomedical Research Institute: Academic Departments
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Academic Departments

Brigham and Women's Hospital's departments and divisions are reputed for their excellence in research.  Housing both laboratory and clinical research initiatives, investigators in each department and division are focused on a variety of research issues both within and beyond the confines of the traditional outpatient department.    

Should you like more information about a research team that is not linked below, contact bwhresearch@partners.org and reference this page and the laboratory's name.

Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (Department of)

Chairman: Charles A. Vacanti, MD

Dermatology (Department of)

Chairman: Thomas S. Kupper, MD

Emergency Medicine (Department of)

Chairman: Ron M. Walls, MD

Medicine (Department of)

Chairman: Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD

Medicine: Division of Aging

Chief: J. Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH

Medicine: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Chief: Peter Libby, MD

Medicine: Channing Laboratory

Chief: Dennis Kasper, MD

Medicine: Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension

Chief: Ursula Kaiser, MD

Medicine: Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy

Chief: Richard Blumberg, MD

Medicine: Division of General Medicine

Chief: David Bates, MD, MSc

Medicine: Division of Genetics

Chief, ad interim: David Beier, MD, PhD

Medicine: Harvard Partners Center for Genomics and Genetics

Chief: Raju Kucherlapti, PhD

Medicine: Division of Hematology

Chief: Nancy Berliner, MD

Medicine: Division of Infectious Disease

Chief: Elliott D. Kieff, MD, PhD

Medicine: Division of Preventative Medicine

Chief: JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH

Medicine: Division of Pharmacoepidemiology

Chief: Jerome Avorn, MD

Medicine: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Chief ad interim: John J. Reilly, MD

Medicine: Renal Division

Chief: Joseph V. Bonventre, MD, PhD

Medicine: Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy

Chief: Michael B. Brenner, MD

Medicine: Division of Sleep Medicine

Chief: Charles Czeisler, MD

Medicine: Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities

Chief: Jim Kim, MD

Medicine: Division of Translational Medicine

Chief: Thomas Stossel, MD

Medicine: Division of Women's Health

Chief: Paula Johnson, MD

Neurology (Department of) 

Chairman: Martin A. Samuels MD

Neurology: Division of Basic Neuroscience Research (Center for Neurologic Disease)

Co-Directors: Dennis J. Selkoe, MD & Howard L. Weiner, MD

Neurology: Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

Chief: Kirk R. Daffner, MD

Neurology: Division of Critical Care and Emergency Neurology

Director: Galen V. Henderson, MD

Neurology: Division of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuro-Imunology

Co-Director: Howard L. Weiner, MD

Neurology: Division of Neuromuscular Disease

Chief: Anthony A. Amato, MD 

Neurology: Division of Neuro-Oncology

Director: Patrick Y. Wen, MD

Neurology: Stroke Division, Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center

Chief: Steven K. Feske, MD

Neurosurgery (Department of)

Chairman: Arthur L. Day, MD

Chairman: Robert Barbieri, MD
Chief: Steven Ringer, MD, PhD

Chairman: Thomas S. Thornhill, MD

Pathology (Department of)

Chairman: Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr., MD  

Psychiatry (Department of)

Chairman: Jonathan F. Borus, MD

Radiation Oncology (Department of)

Chairman: Jay Harris, MD

Radiation Oncology: Division of Genomic Stability

Chief: Alan D. D'Andrea, MD

Radiation Oncology: Division of Medical Physics 

Chairman: Lee Chin, DSc  

Radiology (Department of) 

Chairman: Steven Seltzer, MD 

Surgery Research (Department of)

Chairman: Michael J. Zinner, MD 

Surgery: Division of Cardiac Surgery 

Chief: Ralph Bolman III MD 

Surgery: Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery 

Chief: Francis Moore Jr., MD 

Surgery: Division of Oral Medicine & Dentistry


Surgery: Division of Otolaryngology
Chief: Jo Shapiro, MD 

Surgery: Division of Plastic Surgery

Chief: Elof Eriksson, MD, PhD 

Surgery: Division of Surgical Oncology

Chief: Monica Bertagnolli, MD 

Surgery: Division of Thoracic Surgery

Chief: David Sugarbaker, MD 

Surgery: Division of Transplant Surgery

Chief: Stefan Tullius, MD, PhD 

Surgery: Division of Trauma, Burn, and Critical Care

Director: Selwyn Roger Jr., MD, MPH 

Surgery: Division of Urology

Chief: Jerome Richie, MD 

Surgery: Division of Vascular Surgery

Chief: Michael Belkin, MD 

 
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