Surgical Service Staff

The merged Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center formed one of the largest surgical training programs in the country, with a world renowned surgical staff, all of whom are members of the Harvard Medical School faculty.

Training Program Leadership


James M. Hurst, M.D.
Acting Chief
Visiting Professor of Surgery

Scott R. Johnson, M.D.
Program Director
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Jonathan Critchlow, M.D.
Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Christopher Boyd, M.D.
Assistant Program Director
Instructor in Surgery

Allen Hamdan, M.D.
Assistant Program Director
Assistant Professor of Surgery

John T. Mullen, M.D.
Assistant Program Director
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Department Administration


Per-Olof Hasselgren, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice Chairman for Research;
George H. A. Clowes, Jr., Professor of Surgery

Sidney Levitsky, M.D.
Senior Vice Chairman;
David W. and David Cheever Professor of Surgery

Donald W. Moorman, M.D.
Vice Chairman for Quality Assurance and Safety; Associate Professor of Surgery

Russell Nauta, M.D.
Vice Chairman; Professor of Surgery;
Chairman, Department of Surgery, Mount Auburn Hospital

Departmental Divisions


Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Malcolm M. DeCamp, Jr., M.D.
Chief; Associate Professor of Surgery

Division of General Surgery
Mark P. Callery, M.D.
Chief; Associate Professor of Surgery

Division of Neurological Surgery
Peter Warnke, M.D.
Chief; Visiting Professor of Surgery

Division of Ophthalmology
Frank Berson, M.D.
Chief; William F. Chatlos Professor of Ophthalmology

Division of Otolaryngology
David Vernick, M.D.
Interim Chief; Associate Professor of Otology and Laryngology

Division of Plastic Surgery
Sumner Slavin, M.D.
Chief; Associate Professor of Surgery

Division of Podiatry
John Giurini, D.P.M.
Chief; Assistant Professor of Surgery

Division of Transplantation
Douglas Hanto, M.D.
Chief; Professor of Surgery

Division of Urological Surgery
William DeWolf, M.D.
Chief; Professor of Surgery

Division of Vascular Surgery
Frank B. Pomposelli, M.D.
Chief; Associate Professor of Surgery

Integrated Hospitals’ Surgical Departments
Steven Schwaitzberg, M.D.
Chief, Department of Surgery, Cambridge Hospital;
Visiting Associate Professor of Surgery

Russell Nauta, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Surgery, Mount Auburn Hospital;
Professor of Surgery

Leon Josephs, M.D.
Chief of Surgery, St. Vincent Hospital

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