Cover
Feature
Surgery Program
at St. ElizabEth'S MEdical
cEntEr aMong FaStESt
growing in boSton
By Eric Slack
A StAte-of-the-Art ICU, renowned SUrgICAl teAm And pAtIent-foCUSed
ApproACh Are Among the reASonS for ContInUed growth.
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experience and care environment is a
commitment Steward Health Care
takes seriously. One example is
Steward and St. Elizabeth's Medical
Center's focus on enhancing its
surgical services.
mProving the Patie nt
The Chair of the medical center's
Department of Surger y is Frank
Pomposelli, MD. He oversees the
St. Elizabeth's surger y programs
and is a Professor of Surgery at Tufts
University School of Medicine. A
nationally recognized vascular surgeon,
he joined St. Elizabeth's from Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center
(BIDMC) where he was one of the
founding architects of the BIDMC
Cardiovascular Institute.
"Big hospitals can be intimidating places," Dr. Pomposelli says.
Some of the St. Elizabeth's surgeons: (L–R) Arvind Agnihotri, MD, Chief of Cardiac Surgery; Katherine Matta, MD, gynecologic surgeon; Ingolf Tuerk, MD, Chief of Urology; Frank
Pomposelli, MD, Chair of Surgery, vascular surgeon; Nikhil Kinsal, MD, vascular surgeon; Scott Johnson, MD, hepatobiliary surgeon
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