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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, DF/BWCC


Janet Porter

Janet Porter, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has decided to leave the organization. Porter, who arrived at Dana-Farber six years ago, plans to move to South Carolina with her husband at the end of March.

Her leadership has greatly strengthened the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center to help ensure that we deliver the best care possible in an efficient and supportive manner that is truly patient- and family-centered. High among her accomplishments at Dana-Farber is the successful construction and opening of the patient- and staff-centered Yawkey Center. She led a strong team dedicated to the project to ensure that this model facility was completed exceptionally smoothly, on time and under budget, and with minimal disruption of our work.

Part of Janet’s work also included championing the voice and involvement of patients and their families. The results of her collaboration with our Adult and Pediatric Patient and Family Advisory Councils can be seen throughout the DF/BWCC and Dana-Farber.

Dorothy Puhy, Dana-Farber’s executive vice-president and chief financial officer, will take on the additional role of interim chief operating officer, beginning in early February.

Department of Pathology


Michael Gimbrone
and Jeffrey Golden

Jeffrey A. Golden, MD, a renowned pathologist, clinician, investigator and teacher, who trained in Boston at MGH and served as assistant in Pathology and Neuropathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, will rejoin the Brigham family as chairman of the Department of Pathology, effective March 1, 2012, and will be the Ramzi S. Cotran Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. He will succeed Michael A. Gimbrone, MD, who after nearly 11 years as chairman and 38 years with BWH, will step down as chairman.

Golden returns to BWH from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He has served since 2008 as pathologist-in-chief in CHOP’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, cited as one of the leading pathology and developmental biology programs in the U.S. and one of the top NIH-funded research programs in Pathology. He also serves as vice chair and chief of the Division of Pediatric Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and the Lucy Balian Rorke-Adams Endowed Chair of Pediatric Neuropathology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Golden received his MD at the University of Pennsylvania. He then interned in Medicine at the University of California in Los Angeles. He completed his residency in Pathology and a fellowship in Neuropathology at MGH and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He has also held appointments in neuropathology at McLean Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston.

Center for Advanced Heart Disease


Mandeep Mehra

Mandeep R. Mehra, MBBS, FACC, FACP, who is recognized as one of the nation’s leading cardiologists in advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation, joined BWH as the executive director of the Center for Advanced Heart Disease.

Mehra, who also serves as editor-in-chief of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, has authored and published more than 400 book chapters, manuscripts, editorials and abstracts focusing on all aspects of advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation, treatment modalities, medical therapies and alternatives to transplantation.

His research interests in cardiac transplantation focus on post-transplant coronary arterial disease (use of intravascular ultrasound and angioscopy), new immunosuppressive therapy to improve heart transplant outcomes (particularly in minority populations) and in bringing genomic and proteomic science to the bedside. In the field of heart failure, his research has focused on the role of novel percutaneous cardiac support devices and serum markers to guide diagnosis and therapy.

Prior to joining BWH, Mehra was the Dr. Herbert Berger Endowed Professor of Medicine and Head of Cardiology, as well as assistant dean for Clinical Services at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is a past-president of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT).

Center for Clinical Excellence


Karen Fiumara
Jennifer Beloff

Karen Fiumara, PharmD, BCPS, who has served as patient safety manager for two years, has been promoted to director of Patient Safety in recognition of her effort and skills. Prior to joining the CCE, Fiumara served as the medication safety officer in the Pharmacy. Jennifer Beloff, MSN, RN, APN-C, was named director of Quality for the Center for Clinical Excellence. She joined the center in 2008 as senior consultant for Quality Programs and has since been instrumental in facilitating the pneumonia care, inpatient vaccination and outpatient surgery quality measurement and improvement programs at BWH. She also serves as a leader of the CAUTI Task Force to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections.


HMS Names Professors and Associate Professors

Congratulations to the following staff who have been appointed professors and associate professors at Harvard Medical School:

  • Robert Jamison, PhD, Professor of Anaesthesia

  • Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine

  • Christopher Cannon, MD, Professor of Medicine

  • Mandeep Mehra, MBBS, FACC, FACP, Professor of Medicine

  • Alan Michelson, MD, Professor of Medicine

  • Gary Curhan, MD, ScD, Professor of Medicine

  • Joshua Boyce, MD, Professor of Medicine

  • Neil Bhattacharyya, MD, Professor of Medicine

  • Jiali Han, PhD, Associate Professor of Dermatology and Assistant Professor of Medicine

  • Shahin Lockman, MD, MSc, Associate Professor of Medicine

  • Rulla Tamimi, ScD, MSc, Associate Professor of Medicine

  • Corey Cutler, MD, CM, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine

  • Irene Ghobrial, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine

  • Stephen Lockley, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine

  • Niteesh Choudhry, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine

  • Jon Einarsson, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

  • Robert Fuhlbrigge, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Professor of Dermatology