Chobanian & Avedisian SOM February 2026 Faculty Appointments & Promotions
Congratulations to the following Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine faculty on their February 2026 appointment or promotion.
Clinical Associate Professor
Dominic Pisano, MD, Anesthesiology, is a clinician-educator who focuses on critical care, the physiologically difficult airway, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and mechanical circulatory support. Dr. Pisano joined the faculty in 2024 as an anesthesia intensivist at Boston Medical Center (BMC). He holds double board certification in anesthesiology and anesthesia critical care with an additional specialization in echocardiography. Dr. Pisano served as surgical intensive care unit rotation director (2024–2025), a critical role for resident education in complex critical care. In 2025 he was appointed anesthesiology residency program director at BMC-Brighton. He is the recipient of numerous teaching honors and awards, including the prestigious Golden Apple Teaching Award (2024) and the department’s Ellison C. Pierce, MD Patient Safety/Teaching Award (2025).
Sankalp Sehgal, MD, Anesthesia, is vice chief of anesthesiology at Boston Medical Center (BMC) – Brighton, division of cardiothoracic anesthesia and perioperative echocardiography. Dr. Sehgal oversees the clinical operations at all anesthetizing sites at BMC Brighton, including operating rooms, catheterization lab, cardiac electrophysiology lab, endoscopy suite and radiology. He previously served as section head and director of perioperative teaching at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, associate vice chair of education at Drexel University School of Medicine and as section chief of anesthesia for the Cardiac EP lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sehgal’s research work on perioperative outcomes after cardiovascular surgery and advanced echocardiography imaging for structural heart diseases has been recognized with several distinguished institutional and organizational awards.
Jaromir Slama, MD, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, is a clinician-educator whose initial focus was on hand and reconstructive surgery but now has shifted to transgender surgical care and breast and body contouring. In 2016 he and colleague Robert Oates, MD, professor of urology, performed a neovaginoplasty for a transgender woman – a first at a Boston hospital. Dr. Slama has helped train teams at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital in performing gender-affirming surgery. Over the past decade he has performed hundreds of gender-affirming procedures for BMC patients.