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Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH)
is the second largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and the largest hospital in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Along with Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two founding members of Mass General Brigham, the largest healthcare provider in Massachusetts. Robert Higgins, MD, MSHA serves as the hospital's current president.[1]
Brigham and Women's Hospital conducts the second largest (behind MGH) hospital-based research program in the world, with an annual research budget of more than $630 million.[2] Pioneering achievements at BWH have included the world's first successful heart valve operation and the world's first solid organ transplant.
Location:
75 Francis Street
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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History:
Opened 1980
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History
Brigham and Women's Hospital was established with the 1980 merger of three Harvard-affiliated hospitals: Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (established in 1913); Robert Breck Brigham Hospital (established in 1914); and Boston Hospital for Women (established in 1966 as a merger of Boston Lying-In Hospital, established in 1832, and Free Hospital for Women, established in 1875).[citation needed]
In 1954, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital became the location for the first-ever successful kidney transplant, performed on identical twins, Ronald Hendrick (the donor) and Richard Hendrick (the recipient). J. Hartwell Harrison, Chief of the Urology Department, operated on the donor, and Joseph Murray was the surgeon for the recipient. Murray later received a Nobel Prize for this and other work. Dr. Samuel A. Levine introduced the arm-chair treatment of myocardial infarction in the 1950s and his protégé Dr. Bernard Lown was an early innovator in the development of the coronary care unit in the 1960s.[3]
After a 10-year affiliation with Faulkner Hospital in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, BWH merged with the community hospital in 2012 to form Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital.[4]
In April 2017, Brigham and Women's announced they would be offering voluntary buyouts to 1,600 staff in an effort to control costs. The hospital was profitable, but this move was due to higher labor and other costs amid stagnant payments from insurance companies. The hospital also needs to pay for two large projects, a $550 million new outpatient and research building that opened the previous year and a $335 million new software system launched in 2015.[5]
Also in April 2017, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts announced that Brigham and Women's Hospital and its nonprofit hospital and physicians network, Partners HealthCare, agreed to pay a $10 million fine to resolve allegations that a stem cell research lab fraudulently obtained federal grant funding.[6]
After 11 years as the president of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, will step down to pursue opportunities in the for-profit biotech sector. She will leave the position as of March 1, 2021 and join a biotech firm co-founded by her husband Gary Nabel and Elias Zerhouni.[7]
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About Brigham and Women's Hospital
Brigham and Women’s Hospital is a world-class academic medical center based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Brigham serves patients from New England, across the United States and from 120 countries around the world. A major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital has a legacy of clinical excellence that continues to grow year after year.
The Brigham network includes 1,200 doctors throughout New England working across 150 outpatient practices. An international leader in virtually every area of medicine, the Brigham has led numerous medical and scientific breakthroughs that have improved lives around the world.
U.S. News & World Report recognizes Brigham and Women’s Hospital among the best hospitals in many specialty areas, including cancer, heart and vascular, diabetes and endocrine disorders, ear, nose and throat, gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriatric care, gynecology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, rheumatology, and urology.
Mass General Brigham: An Integrated Health Care System
Brigham and Women’s Hospital is part of Mass General Brigham, a single, integrated health care system that consists of 16 member institutions that encompass a range of health care organizations. In addition to our academic medical centers, these include top-tier specialty hospitals, community hospitals, a rehabilitation network, a health insurance plan, a physician network, a teaching organization and many locations for urgent and community care.
Mass General Brigham was formerly known as Partners HealthCare when it was founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. With the recently adopted Mass General Brigham name, we aspire to more closely connect with patients and communities. Working together as one system, our health care organizations can leverage their collective expertise, resources and compassion to better serve patients and the community.
https://www.brighamandwomens.org/about-bwh
Brigham and Women's Hospital Leadership
ROBERT S.D. HIGGINS, MD, MSHA
President, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Executive Vice President, Mass General Brigham
Robert S.D. Higgins, MD, MSHA, serves as president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and executive vice president at Mass General Brigham, roles he assumed in December 2021.
As president, Higgins is responsible for the vitality and success of the clinical, academic and educational mission of the Brigham in support of patients locally and across the globe. As executive vice president, he plays an active leadership role within the Mass General Brigham system, setting and guiding strategy, priorities, and performance.
A distinguished academic and clinical physician with a long track record of collaborative leadership, Higgins joined the Brigham from John Hopkins, where he served as Director of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief, as well as the William Stewart Halsted Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Higgins is a proven innovator with the ability to manage complex, multidisciplinary services at world-class organizations, and a passionate advocate for research with a life-long commitment to training the next generation of exceptional people in healthcare. Widely regarded as a leading authority in heart and lung transplantation, adult and pediatric cardiac surgery and mechanical circulatory support, Higgins is a pioneer with remarkable clinical and academic accomplishments.
Prior to Hopkins, Higgins served as Department of Surgery Chair and Director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center at The Ohio State University Medical Center from 2010 to 2015. He has served in numerous national professional leadership roles, including the President of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (2019-2020), President of the United Network for Organ Sharing (2009-2010), President of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons (2008-2009), and President of the American College of Surgeons Society of Surgical Chairs (2019-2020) and as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. Most recently, he was elected to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Alpha Omega Alpha chapter and was awarded the Fellowship Ad Hominem of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd). He has authored more than 200 scientific articles and book chapters.
Higgins earned his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and medical degree from Yale School of Medicine. He completed his residency in general surgery and served as chief resident at the University Hospitals of Pittsburgh. He was a Winchester Scholar and fellow in cardiothoracic surgery at the Yale School of Medicine. He earned a master’s degree in health services administration at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Higgins has also served as a senior registrar in transplantation at the renowned Papworth Hospital, the United Kingdom’s largest cardiothoracic surgical program and its main heart-lung transplant center. He also served as a Major in the United States Army Reserve Medical Corps for 13 years and while doing so, supported the Richmond Veterans Administration transplantation program.
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Administrative Leadership
Erik K. Alexander, MD
Vice President, Education, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Paul J. Anderson, MD, PhD
Senior Vice President, Research and Education; Interim Chief Academic Officer, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Lindsey Baden, MD
Vice President of Clinical Research
Giles W. Boland, MD
President, Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization
Kerry Damon, MS
Vice President, Human Resources
Sonali Desai, MD, MPH
Associate Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Quality
Katie Fillipon, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Deputy Chief Nursing Officer; Associate Chief Nursing Officer for Oncology
Sonal Gandhi, MUP
Vice President, Real Estate, Planning and Construction
Kevin Giordano, MBA
Senior Vice President, Clinical Services; Interim Chief Operating Officer, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Interim President and Chief Operating Officer, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital
Sheila Harris
Vice President, Patient Access Services
Anita Holbrook
Vice President, Human Resources/Operational Excellence for Nursing and Patient Care Services
Hadine, Joffe, MD
Interim Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Bernard Jones, EdM
Interim Senior Vice President, Clinical Services
Adam Landman, MD, MS, MIS, MHS
Vice President; Chief Information Officer; Digital Innovation Officer, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Christina A. Lundquist, MHS
Senior Vice President, Clinical Services, Real Estate and Facility Operations
Mallika Mendu, MD, MBA
Vice President, Clinical Operations and Care Continuum
Daniel Morash, MBA
Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Finance
Allison Moriarty, MPA
Senior Vice President, Research Planning & Operations and Innovation, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Charles Morris, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Ethan Parten, DHS, MBA
Vice President, Peri-Procedural Services
Madelyn Pearson, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Senior Vice President, Patient Care Services, and Chief Nursing Officer, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Cynthia Peterson, MBA
Vice President, Regional Ambulatory Operations and Business Development, Brigham and Women's Hospital
George Player, CPE, FMA
Vice President, Facilities and Operations, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Susan Rapple, EdM
Senior Vice President; Chief Development Officer, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Samantha Rowley
Vice President, Perioperative Services
Scott Schissel, MD, PhD
Associate Chief Medical Officer and VP of Medical Affairs for Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
Lori J. Schroth
Vice President, Strategic Communication
Julia Sinclair, MBA
Senior Vice President, Clinical Services, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Paula Squires, MDA, SHRM-SCP, SPHR
Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Melinda Upton, MS
Vice President, Network Development, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Tom Walsh, MBA
Vice President, Inpatient Operations and Analytics, Planning, Strategy and Improvement
Clinical & Research Department Leadership
Nawal Nour, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
James Brink, MD
Chair, Department of Radiology
Ennio A. Chiocca, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
Helen A. Christou, MD
Interim Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
Gerard M. Doherty, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
Jon Christopher Aster, MD, PhD
Interim Chair, Department of Pathology
Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD
Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital
James D. Kang, MD
Chair, Department of Orthopaedics
Adam S. Kibel, MD
Chair, Department of Urology
Thomas S. Kupper, MD
Chair, Department of Dermatology
Bruce Levy, MD
Chair, Department of Medicine
James P. Rathmell, MD, MS
Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Tracy Batchelor, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Neurology
Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
Joanne Wolfe, MD
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Ross D. Zafonte, DO
Chair, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, President of Spaulding Rehabilitation