Division News

2024

  • Please join us in congratulating Raghu R. Seethala, MD, MSc as the Division Chief of Emergency Critical Care Medicine (ECCM) for MGB Enterprise Emergency Medicine. Dr. Seethala has extensive leadership experience in emergency medicine and critical care and is currently the Associate Chief of Clinical Operations in the Division of Emergency Critical Care Medicine and Section Chief of Critical Care in the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). He also serves as the Medical Director of the ECMO Service, Director of Thoracic Surgical ICU and Co-Director of the Cardiac Surgical ICU at BWH.
  • Welcoming Mariame Fofana, who is joining us from Stanford University School of Medicine and will be completing a dual fellowship in Global Health and Barret Zimmerman, who is joining us from Alpert Medical School of Brown University, to our 2024 - 2026 Emergency Critical Care Fellowship.

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2023
  • Welcoming Michael Char who is joining us from Boston Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency and Alex Fleming-Nouri who joins us from Yale New Haven Hospital Residency, to our 2023 - 2025 Emergency Critical Care Fellowship.
  • Welcoming David Lewandowski as a new member of our faculty, coming to us from McGovern Medical School at UTHealth as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine.
  • Please join us in congratulating Imo Aisiku, MD, who has been appointed as the Interim Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he will lead initiatives to foster a more inclusive and equitable healthcare environment for all.
  • Welcoming Amanda Downing as our Program Coordinator, whose institutional knowledge will be invaluable to the division.
2022
  • Congrats to recent graduates of the CCM Fellowship Program and new members of our faculty, Stephen Hallisey and Thiago Oliveira.
  • Welcoming Fan Yang from Cambridge Health Alliance and Sonja Foo from University of Virginia as our new Critical Care Fellows.
  • Welcoming Ranee Connaughton as our new Administrative Assistant and Adrienne Lepardo as our new Division Program Manager.
2021
  • Welcoming Victoria Hoch from University of Michigan and Sophia Sharifali from SUNY Downstate as our new Critical Care Fellows.
  • It is with pleasure that we introduce the latest recruitments to the division of ECCM. Please welcome a BIDMC HAEMR alumni and recent graduate of the BIDMC Anesthesia Critical Care Fellowship Program, Annette Ilg, and recent graduates of our CCM Fellowship Program, Paul Jansson and Peter Allfather, to the department and division as faculty.
  • Michael Billington was appointed the Director for the Emergency Medicine Critical Care Fellowship Program.
2020
  • Welcoming Thiago Oliveira from Boston Medical Center and Stephen Hallisey from our own US fellowship as our new Critical Care Fellows.
  • I am pleased to announce Dr. Seethala has been appointed the new Thoracic ICU Director as October 1, 2020. This is an extraordinary accomplishment. Dr. Seethala was appointed the ECMO director in July 2020, and this recent appointment demonstrates the outstanding work and skills Raghu demonstrates. Raghu will be one of very few EM primary trained CCM intensivists who are thoracic surgery ICU directors in the country. We are especially pleased that Raghu will remain in the department of EM as his primary appointment and a joint appointment with surgery as well continue as an active member of the division of ECCM.
  • Please congratulate Imo Aisiku, MD, who has been appointed as the new Vice Chair of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity. Dr. Aisiku will oversee all diversity, inclusion and health equity programming, with oversight of the new Office for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice (IDEaS). This position and office, along with allocation of administrative support and resources, represents a new and expansive approach to advancing diversity, professional advancement, and health equity in Emergency Medicine and into our communities.
  • Peter Hou was appointed the Interim Director for the Emergency Medicine Critical Care Fellowship Program.
  • Dr. Imoigele Aisiku was selected for the 2020 BWPO Community Service Pillar Award.
2019
  • Welcoming BWH/MGH HAEMR alumni’s Peter Allfather and Paul Jansson as our new Critical Care Fellows.
  • Imo Aisiku was promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
  • Peter Hou was promoted to Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
2018
  • Welcoming Christian Renne from University of Cincinnati and Michael Sherman from Boston Medical Center as our new Critical Care Fellows.
  • It is with pleasure that we introduce the latest recruitment to the division of ECCM. Please welcome a HAEMR alumni and recent graduate of our CCM Fellowship Program, Michael Billington to the department and division as faculty. Michael is interested in education and will have a significant role in fellowship education as we expand the fellowship coverage to South Shore Hospital.
  • It is our pleasure to announce that Raghu Seethala will be taking over the EM/IM CCM Fellowship. Raghu over the last 1-2 years has developed an EM/CCM US curriculum modeled after our own exceptional US program. As the US program continues to grow and mature, Raghu will now add the fellowship to his growing educational responsibilities. As our division continues to grow, Raghu is prepared to lead our current fellows and as we prepare and plan to increase our fellowship component. Please join us in congratulating and supporting Raghu in his new role.
  • Raghu Seethala was selected as a Co-Chair of the BWH Emergency Response Committee.
2017
  • Welcoming Nana Sefa from William Beaumont and Gregory Wu from Albany Medical Center as our new Critical Care Fellows.
2016
  • Welcoming Naomi George from Brown University and BWH/MGH HAEMR alumni Michael Billington as our new Critical Care Fellows.
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital welcomes back Jason Cohen. He graduated from our Anesthesia Critical Care Fellowship in 2010 and went on to Albany Medical Center, where he attended in the emergency department & surgical intensive care unit and served as the regional Medical Director for LifeNet Health of New York. Jason also has a special interest in disaster medicine. At BWH, he will be attending in the Cardiac Surgery and Surgical Intensive Care Units and serve as the Chief Medical Officer of Boston MedFlight.
  • The Division of Emergency Critical Care Medicine was established on August 30, 2016.
2015
  • Alissa Genthon, who is a BWH/MGH HAEMR alumni and ultrasound fellowship trained, was the inaugural fellow to the BWH Emergency Medicine Critical Care Fellowship Program.

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