Principal Investigators
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Christopher W. DiGiovanni, MD
Founder and Chief Emeritus, Foot & Ankle Research and Innovation Lab, Vice-chair Academic Affairs, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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John Kwon, MD
Chief, Foot & Ankle Service, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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Soheil Ashkani-Esfahani, MD, PhDc
Director, Foot & Ankle Research and Innovation Lab (FARIL-MGH), Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Email: sashkaniesfahani@mgh.harvard.edu
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Daniel Guss, MD, MBA
Foot & Ankle Fellowship Program Director, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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Lorena Bejarano-Pineda, MD
Foot & Ankle Surgeon, Minimally Invasive Surgery Lead, Member of the Faculty, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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Gregory Waryasz, MD
Foot & Ankle Sports Medicine Director, Instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical Schoo
Podiatry Team
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Norman Wortzman, DPM
Podiatry Surgeon
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Adam Landsman, DPM, PhD
Podiatry Surgeon, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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Sara Rose-Salud, DPM
Podiatry Surgeon
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Jennifer Skolnik, DPM
Podiatry Surgeon
Faculty Collaborators
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Christopher M. Bono, MD
Executive Vice Chair, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Program Director, Harvard Orthopaedic Residency Program (HCORP), Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
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Miho J. Tanaka, MD
Director, Women’s Sports Medicine Program, Sports Medicine Orthopaedic Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
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Abhiram Bhashyam, MD, PhD
Hand & Upper Extremity Surgeon, Department of Orthopaedics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
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Neal Chen, MD
Chief of the Hand & Arm Center, Department of Orthopaedics, Massachusetts General Hospital
Program Director, Hand Surgery Fellowship Program
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
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Christopher Miller, MD, MS
Chief, Foot and Ankle division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Assistant professor, Orthopaedic surgery, Harvard medical school
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Mitchel B. Harris, MD
Chief, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
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Sandra Nelson, MD
Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Clinical Director of Division of Infections Diseases, Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT)
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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD
Infectious Diseases Physician Scientist fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Rachel Rosovsky, MD MPH
Hematologist Physician, Director of Thrombosis Research, Division of Hematology, Co-Chair of Thrombosis Committee, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
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Ahmed Tawakol, MD
Cardiovascular Disease Physician, Co-Director of Cardiovascular MR-PET-CT Program, Director of Nuclear Cardiology, Associate Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Ara Nazarian, PhD
Director of the Nazarian Lab, Vice Chair of Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Kayhan Batmanghelich
Director of Batman Lab, Assistant Professor ECE at Boston University
Clinical Research Coordinators and Research Managers
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Kendal Toy, MS
Clinical Research Coordinator, MS in Personalized Medicine and Applied Engineering,
BS in Biomedical Engineering from Yale University
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Sarah Yeates, MBA
Senior Clinical Research Program Manager at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Emily Berner, MPH
Orthopedic Oncology Clinical Research Program Manager and Master of Public Health Student at Boston University