Surgical Critical Care

Main Number: 617.414.4861

The Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) team cares for patients with multisystem trauma, neurotrauma, and multisystem organ failure, as well as those who require perioperative hemodynamic monitoring or critical care for a wide range of general, vascular, thoracic, urologic, neurologic, and orthopedic diseases. The SICU at Boston Medical Center is a 28-bed, state-of-the-art unit that admits more than 1,500 patients annually.

Led by Chief of Surgical Critical Care Noelle Saillant, MD, Department of Surgery Surgical Critical Care faculty are boarded in surgical critical care, with additional qualifications in traumatology and acute care surgery. Surgeons in the group are full-time faculty members at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

Department of Surgery members work closely with other BMC surgical specialties and services that include physical and occupational therapy, rehabilitative medicine, and social work to ensure holistic and complete care for each patient and family. Anesthesiologist Robert Canelli, MD, and neurologist Anna Cervantes-Arslanian, MD, are associate directors of the SICU.

Our Team

Noelle Saillant, MD
Chief, Surgical Critical Care
Associate Professor of Surgery

Megan Janeway, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Danby Kang, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Aaron Richman, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Sabrina E. Sanchez, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Dane Scantling, DO, MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Sheina Theodore, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Crisanto Torres, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Kathryn Twomey, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Fellowship Program

For information about our Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program, please click here.