Harvard Catalyst Profiles

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada	FRCSC	06/2020	Vascular Surgery Residency
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada	PhD	06/2018	Clinical Epidemiology & Health Services Research
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, USA		12/2017	Cardiovascular Medicine Research
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada	MD	06/2012	Medicine
Western University, London, Canada	BSc	08/2009	Medical Sciences

Dr. Mohamad A. Hussain, MD, PhD, RPVI, FAHA, FRCSC, FACS is a Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon-Scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Core Faculty at the Center for Surgery and Public Health, and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He is board certified in vascular surgery by both the American Board of Surgery and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

He obtained his medical degree from the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University. He completed a vascular surgery residency and a PhD in clinical epidemiology and health services research through the Surgeon Scientist Training Program at the University of Toronto. He also completed a cardiovascular research fellowship at the Brigham.

Dr. Hussain’s clinical practice is focused on general vascular and endovascular surgery, with special interests in complex hemodialysis access surgery, aortic dissection and aneurysm surgery, and thoracic outlet syndrome surgery.

His research lab VESEL (Vascular & Endovascular Surgery Epidemiology Lab) conducts observational and clinical research to improve the care of patients with vascular diseases with special interests in population-based health services research, prediction with machine learning, enhancing causal inference research using target trial emulation, and clinical trials.

Dr. Hussain also serves at the Director of Resident Education and Research in Vascular Surgery and Associate Clerkship Director in the Department of Surgery at the Brigham.