- Founding Director of The Center for Surgery, Innovation & Bioengineering, and the Division Chief of Surgery, Science & Engineering at MGH
- Sumner M. Redstone Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School
- Chief of the Burns Service at MGH and Chief of Staff Emeritus of the Shriners Hospitals for Children-Boston
- Internationally recognized for his work in clinical systems biology as it relates to inflammation and metabolism; author of more than 400 medical publications
- B.S. in Chemistry from Tulane University, M.D. from Tulane Medical School, Sc.D. in Medical and Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology