Who We Are – PROVE Center

Director

Andrea Pusic, MD, MHS, FACS, FRCSC

Dr. Pusic is Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Joseph E. Murray Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical

Associate Director

Maria Edelen, PhD

Dr. Edelen is a psychometrician, Associate Professor of Surgery, and Associate Director of PROVE Center. Her research focuses on development evaluation and implementation of PROs

Lead Faculty for Research and Innovation

Jason B. Liu, MD, MS

Dr. Liu is an endocrine surgeon and surgical oncologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Liu graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Science

Adjunct Faculty

Laura Dominici, MD, FACS

Laura Dominici, MD, FACS is the Section Chief of Breast Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, an Associate Surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Adjunct Faculty

Antonia F. Chen, MD, MBA

Dr. Chen is the Director of Research for the Division of Adult Reconstruction and Total Joint Arthroplasty in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brigham

Adjunct Faculty

Justin Broyles, MD

Dr. Broyles is an Associate Surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Broyles is an

Adjunct Faculty

Gezzer Ortega, MD, MPH

A Brooklyn native, born to immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic, Dr. Ortega is the Lead Faculty for Research and Innovation for Equitable Surgical Care

Adjunct Faculty

Michael Philip O’Leary, MD, MPH

Dr. O’Leary is Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Senior Surgeon, and Director of Men’s Health at Brigham Health. He was graduated from

Program Manager

Navneet Pabla, BS

Navneet joined the PROVE Center in January 2022. She had graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston with a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences

Research Assistant

George Liang, BS

George joined the PROVE center in August of 2021 after graduating from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. As a part of

Informatician

Dany Thorpe Huerta, MBI, AB

As an informatician, Dany Thorpe Huerta supports all IS (information systems) at PROVE. Examples of how she contributes to projects include data collection, analysis and

Investigator

Manraj Kaur, PT, PhD

Dr. Manraj Kaur (She/Her) is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funded Postdoctoral Fellow at the PROVE center with training and experience in qualitative,

Medical Student

Colby Hyland, A.B.

Colby Hyland is a fourth year medical student at Harvard Medical School. Before medical school, he completed his A.B. in Molecular Biology with a Minor

Research Assistant

Finn Tobias, BS

Finn joined the PROVE Center as a Research Assistant and the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery as a Medical Assistant in 2022 after graduating

Project Manager

Amanda Higgins, MPH

Amanda joined our team in April 2022 as our Project Manager with a deep medical and public health background. Having received both her Bachelor of

Fellows

Chengbo Zeng, PhD

Dr. Chengbo Zeng is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the PROVE center with training in quantitative analytic methods, intervention design and evaluation, and ecological research. His

Research Fellow

Sophia Hu, BS

Sophia Hu is a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania taking a research year at the PROVE Center and BWH Center for Transgender Health.

Past Members

Sri Harshini Malapati, BS	2022-2023	Research Fellow
Danny Mou, MD	2018 – 2020	Research Fellow
Elena Tsangaris, PhD	2018 -2020	Post-Doctoral Fellow
Jessica Means, MD	2019 – 2021	Research Fellow
Justin McCarty, MD	2018 – 2019	Research Fellow
Claire DeVries, MD PhD	2019 – 2020	Research Fellow
Madelijn Gregorowitsch, MD PhD	2018 – 2019	Research Fellow
Philip Browers, MD	2018 – 2019	Research Fellow
Lisa van den Berg, MD	2018 – 2019	Research Fellow
Daan Geerards, MD	2018	Research Fellow
Tert van Alphen, MD	2018	Research Fellow
Maarten Ottenhof, MD	2018	Research Fellow
Aska Arnautovic, MD	2019 – 2020	Research Fellow
Louise Marie Beelen, MD	Summer 2020	Research Fellow
Claire Sokas, MD	2019 – 2021	Research Fellow
Joanna O’Gorman, BS	2018-2022	Research Assistant