{"id":103955,"date":"2022-04-27T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=103955"},"modified":"2022-04-29T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T17:30:49","slug":"january-2022-faculty-appointments-promotions-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2022\/04\/27\/january-2022-faculty-appointments-promotions-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2022 Faculty Appointments, Promotions Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to the following faculty on their recent appointment or promotion.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"HeadshotRichard Freeman, Jr., MD, BUSM, Surgery<\/strong>, a transplant surgeon, chief academic officer and chief medical officer at St. Elizabeth\u2019s Medical Center, is a leading innovator in health care delivery, strategic design, leadership development, talent acquisition, clinical practice management and clinical and academic programmatic development in complex healthcare systems. He previously served as vice dean for clinical affairs at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin and before that as chair of surgery at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine. Freeman received his BA from Franklin & Marshall College, his MD from Jefferson Medical College and a master\u2019s degree in healthcare leadership from Brown University. He completed a surgical residency at Harvard\/New England Deaconess Hospital, now known as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston.<\/p>\n

\"HeadshotRicardo Munarriz, MD, BUSM, Urology<\/strong>, director of the Center for Sexual Medicine at Boston Medical Center, one of the busiest sexual medicine practices in the country, has been recognized annually as one of best urologic surgeons in Boston Magazine\u2019s Best Doctors<\/em> since 2009. He also directs the Sexual, Reproductive and Transgender Fellowship, which provides the highest combined surgical volume in andrology, penile prosthesis and transgender surgery fellowship experience in the country. President of Society of Prosthetic Urologic Surgeons, he has trained and mentored more than 40 urology residents, seven post-urology residency fellows, and 16 research fellows.<\/p>\n

Associate Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"HeadshotHillary Mull, PhD, MPP, BUSM, Surgery, <\/strong>a health services researcher in patient safety, develops informatics tools for adverse event surveillance in surgical care in the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR). She has focused her 15-year career at the VA on informatics-based adverse event surveillance. She has developed considerable expertise in data mining techniques of VA medical records to detect adverse events in understudied areas, including outpatient surgery and invasive non-surgical procedures. Mull\u2019s outpatient surgery surveillance tool was implemented at the VA in 2019.<\/p>\n

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\"HeadshotJordana Phillips, MD, BUSM, Radiology, <\/strong>has focused her work primarily in Contrast-Enhanced Mammography (CEM) for breast cancer evaluation. She has multiple industry- and foundation-funded prospective trials studying CEM\u2019s role for breast cancer screening, evaluating its diagnostic performance and the relative cost assessment of the exam compared with other common breast imaging exams. She was invited to participate in the ACR\u2019s effort to develop a formal lexicon for CEM for the Breast Imaging and Reporting Database System (BI-RADS) and co-leads the ACR\u2019s larger effort to develop a national Breast Imaging research registry to include demographic data, imaging data as well as images, pathology data and samples, and follow-up data. She is spearheading multiple retrospective studies evaluating CEM\u2019s performance in the clinical setting to better understand its value and to refine the technical protocol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Professors Richard Freeman, Jr., and Ricardo Munarriz; and Associate Professors Hillary Mull and Jordana Phillips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104068,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103955\/revisions\/104068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}