Chair, Department of Surgery

Elliot L. Chaikof, M.D., Ph.D.

Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (HMFP)

Elliot L. Chaikof, M.D., Ph.D., is Chair of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chaikof received his B.A. and M.D. from Johns Hopkins and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT. He completed training in General Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and in Vascular Surgery at Emory University, where he served as the John E. Skandalakis Professor and Chief of Vascular Surgery. Dr. Chaikof was responsible for developing the national clinical practice guidelines that have established the standard of care for patients with an aortic aneurysm and is the editor of one of the leading textbooks in the field of vascular surgery with translations in Chinese and Portuguese. Dr. Chaikof is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

 

               

Elliot L. Chaikof, M.D., Ph.D., is Chair of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chaikof received his B.A. and M.D. from Johns Hopkins and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT. He completed training in General Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and in Vascular Surgery at Emory University, where he served as the John E. Skandalakis Professor and Chief of Vascular Surgery. Dr. Chaikof was responsible for developing the national clinical practice guidelines that have established the standard of care for patients with an aortic aneurysm and is the editor of one of the leading textbooks in the field of vascular surgery with translations in Chinese and Portuguese. Dr. Chaikof is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

 

               

About Surgery

Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's (HMFP) Department of Surgery provides exceptional, multidisciplinary patient care across 16 divisions. The department has more than 180 faculty, affiliated with Harvard Medical School (HMS), with surgeons seeing patients across 25 off-site locations throughout eastern Massachusetts.

In addition to serving our community and preparing future leaders in medicine, our core mission is to improve public health through innovation and discovery through our clinical, research, and education programs.

Departments

Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (HMFP) includes 13 specialty clinical departments. HMFP has more than 2,200 specialty physicians and advanced practice professionals, providing services across the Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) system, and other hospitals across eastern Massachusetts. To learn more about a specific department, click below.