Meet Our Team
The Department of Surgery’s team of experts provide general and specialized surgical services to infants, children and adolescents in convenient locations of care like Andover, Lawrence, Lexington, Milford, North Dartmouth, Norwood, Peabody, Waltham, Weymouth and Boston.
Physicians
Steven J. Fishman, MD
Surgeon-in-Chief ; Chief, Department of Surgery; Stuart and Jane Weitzman Family Chair in Surgery; Co-Director, Vascular Anomalies Center Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Terry L. Buchmiller, MD
Associate, Department of Surgery Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Catherine Chen, MD, MPH
Assistant, Department of Surgery Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Alex Cuenca, MD, PhD
Attending Surgeon, Department of Surgery Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Farokh Demehri, MD
Attending, Department of Surgery Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Belinda Dickie, MD, PhD
Director, Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center; Assistant in Surgery, Department of Surgery Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Dario O. Fauza, MD, PhD
Associate, Department of Surgery Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Thomas Hamilton, MD
Assistant Program Director, Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Program; Attending Surgeon, Esophageal Atresia Treatment Program Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Tom Jaksic, MD, PhD
W. Hardy Hendren Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Vice-Chairman of Pediatric General Surgery Boston Children’s Hospital and the Surgical Director of the Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation W. Hardy Hendren Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Russell W. Jennings, MD
Surgical Director, Esophageal and Airway Treatment Center Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Heung Bae Kim, MD
Weitzman Family Chair in Surgical Innovation; Vice-Chair of Surgery for Clinical Operations; Director, Pediatric Transplant Center Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Craig Lillehei, MD
Senior Associate, Department of Surgery; Transplant Surgeon, Department of Surgery Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Biren P. Modi, MD, MPH
Surgical Director, Thyroid Center; Associate Surgical Director, Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation (CAIR); Director, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Program; Associate Program Director, Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Somala Mohammed, MD
Attending Surgeon, Department of Surgery
David P. Mooney, MD, MPH
Director, Trauma Center; Assistant, Department of Surgery Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Prathima Nandivada, MD
Attending Surgeon, Department of Surgery
Konstantinos Papadakis, MD
Assistant in Surgery, Department of Surgery Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Shawn Rangel, MD, MSCE
Associate, Department of Surgery; Senior Surgical Advisor for Quality & Safety; Weitzman Family Chair for the Advancement of Quality & Safety; Director, Health Services Research Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Robert Shamberger, MD
Chief, Emeritus, Department of Surgery Robert E. Gross Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Khashayar Vakili, MD
Surgical Director, Kidney, Liver, and Intestine and Multivisceral Transplant Programs Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Brent R. Weil, MD
Assistant, Department of Surgery Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Christopher Weldon, MD, PhD
Assistant in Surgery, Department of Surgery; Director, Pediatric Surgery Critical Care Fellowship Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Jill Zalieckas, MD, MPH
Assistant, Department of Surgery; Assistant, Critical Care Medicine Instructor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Benjamin Zendejas-Mummert, MD, MSc
Attending, Department of Surgery Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical SchoolAdvanced Practice Clinicians
Cassandra Hernandez, MSN, RN, FNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner, Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center
Lindsay Lemire, MSN, RN, FNP-BC
Advanced Practice Nurse Level II, Department of Surgery
Ellen O'Donnell, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Department of Surgery
Caitlin Phinney, MSN, RN, FNP-BC
Family Nurse Practitioner, Department of Surgery
Kelly Tierney, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC
General Surgery Nurse Practitioner, Department of SurgeryPhysician Assistants
Shawn Anderson, PA-C
Physican Assistant, Department of Surgery
