The Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Surgery is recognized around the world for setting standards of excellence in surgical patient care, as well as training the next generation of surgeons and spearheading ground-breaking research. We perform thousands of life-transforming surgical procedures each year and pioneer surgical techniques that improve quality of life for patients worldwide.
The Department of Surgery places a very high priority on maintaining a work environment for staff, trainees and faculty characterized by generosity, integrity, constructive interactions, mentoring, and respect for diversity and differences among members of our community. All faculty are expected to model the Brigham and Women’s behavioral attributes—responsibility, empathy, service excellence, problem solving and continuous improvement, efficiency, cultural competency and teamwork.
Vision Statement
The Brigham’s Department of Surgery is the very best place where an academic surgeon can work.
Mission Statement
To help faculty reach their highest professional goals and aspirations by providing opportunities for mentorship, education, sponsorship and coaching tailored to each member’s individuals needs and interests, in a department grounded in patient-centeredness, advancing surgical science well-being, collegiality, diversity, inclusion and equity.
Faculty Spotlight
Indranil Sinha, MD, is an associate surgeon and director of Research in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Joining the team in 2015 after completing his plastic surgery residency and both a clinical and research fellowship, he was determined to put his nine years of postdoctoral training to work in helping his patients and researching muscle regeneration.
Dr. Sinha had an interest in plastics from very early on in medical school. He had the opportunity to observe a tram flap reconstructive procedure performed by Dr. Wilkins, one of his professors at the University of Michigan, and realized that was his calling. “I love that my work gives me the opportunity to meld something artistic with a scientific process,” he said.
Dr. Sinha describes his passion for research as a simultaneous yet independent urge. “I wanted to find ways to improve mobility through muscle regeneration in the aging process after watching my grandparents struggle with it.” The time he spent working in Dr. Amy Wager’s lab in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute galvanized his determination to improve postoperative mobility for the aging population. As the director of Seminars in Muscle Regeneration and Aging at the Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, Dr. Sinha finds value in the collaboration with researchers from other local institutions. That spirit of collaboration is the element that initially made Brigham and Women’s Hospital stand out to him. He relishes the opportunity to be a mentor to the brightest trainees, as well as a mentee of his more established colleagues.
When not in surgery or in his lab, Dr. Sinha does his best to prioritize spending time with his family. He and his wife met when they were 13 years old and they enjoy playing and watching sports with their son and daughter. His advice to young surgeons would be to schedule dedicated time for themselves to create their own work life balance.