Our Staff – Ernest Amory Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery

Lynn Devaney, RN, BSN
Lynn Devaney is a Senior Clinical Nurse Reviewer for the Ernest A. Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery (CCCES). She works closely with the ACS\NSQIP, is a liaison and mentor for other Partners NSQIP nurse reviewers as well as QCMetrix and, is involved in many of the projects currently underway at the MGH. She has recently published an article in AORN regarding her work with wound classification and has been invited to present several lectures to surgical residents and nursing staff regarding wound classification, performance improvement, and system utilization. Lynn has been awarded the 2005 Department of Surgery STAR award for excellence. Currently she is working on Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) quality improvement for the, M&M Conference, website and database, at the MGH. Lynn has a BSN from Salve Regina College.

Michael Franklin, Systems Engineer
Michael Franklin is a Senior Technical Engineer in the Laboratory of Computer Science, and is the liaison for Surgery OnCall application development. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has coauthored several peer-reviewed journal articles including “A Computer-Based Outpatient Clinical Referral System” which was published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.”

Matthew M. Hutter, MD, MPH
Matthew M. Hutter, MD, MPH, is currently the Medical Director of the Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery. Dr. Hutter is also a surgeon at the MGH who specializes in general and advanced laparoscopic surgery. He has received his Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health Program in Clinical Effectiveness. His research focuses on surgical outcomes and quality of care. Dr. Hutter works closely with Fellows within the Department of Surgery to complete division specific research projects that utilize the CCCES data and resources.

Elizabeth Lancaster, MBA
Elizabeth Lancaster, MBA, is the Administrative Director for Operations and Quality for the Department of Surgery and manages all administrative aspects of the Codman Center. Elizabeth received her Masters in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has an extensive background in managing quality improvement activities, including data management, operations and clinical and administrative teams, and has held positions as a Project Specialist in the MGH Decision Support and Quality Management Unit and as a Data Analyst in Quality Improvement and Strategic Planning at Kaleida Health in Buffalo New York. Prior to joining the Department of Surgery, Elizabeth served as Program Director in the Partners Healthcare Inc. High Performance Medicine “Uniform High Quality Initiative.”

Rachel Raubenhold, Administrative Support and Project Coordinator
Rachel is the administrative support for the Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery. Rachel assists the Center’s staff and provides critical support with management of key research activity, including administrative duties pertaining to IRB approval of research studies. Rachel works closely with the Center’s two Nurse Reviewers in the data collection process, utilizing the NSQIP database to create and maintain patient cycles while tracking their post-operative progress. Rachel’s contributions also include organizing and scheduling meetings, creating and maintaining database spreadsheets, maintaining office equipment and coordinating office operations. She also assists with small projects for the Center, such as updating the Center’s website, the publications and literature lists, and, tracking IRB studies. Rachel graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a BA in Health Policy and Administration, and a Minor in Business.

David M. Shahian, MD
Dr. David M. Shahian joined the Department of Surgery in May 2007. Dr. Shahian serves as Associate Director of the Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery and as Research Director for the MGH Center for Quality and Safety. Dr. Shahian received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, completed his residency in the Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, and subsequently was a fellow in Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. Dr. Shahian was on staff at the Lahey Clinic for 24 years, where he practiced adult cardiac and general thoracic surgery and served as Chairman of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery until 2004. Dr. Shahian was most recently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery and a member of the Board of Trustees at the Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center. Dr. Shahian’s research over the last decade has primarily focused in the area of outcomes research, quality assessment and improvement, and related health policy issues. He has been a national leader in the area of cardiac quality analysis and reporting, serving as Chair of the Massachusetts Cardiac Care Quality Commission. He has served as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the National Quality Forum (NQF) Cardiac Surgery Project; the NQF Steering Committee on Composite Measures; the NSQIP Measurement and Evaluation Committee; and the AMA PCPI. Dr. Shahian was Chair of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Task Force on Cardiac Risk Models, and he currently serves as Chair of the STS Quality Measurement Task Force.

Shaun Sutcliffe, RN, BSN
Shaun Sutcliffe is a Surgical Nurse Reviewer for the Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery. He has been exposed to multiple aspects of the healthcare industry, with a strong interest in continuing quality improvement. His responsibilities include identification of general and vascular surgical patients for inclusion in the program registry through the application of strict program inclusion/exclusion criteria and randomization protocol. Shaun is a strategic thinker with a balance of vision and sound analytical expertise. Shaun’s background includes knowledge and skills in operations, information systems, change management, conflict resolution, negotiation and direct patient care.

Andrew L. Warshaw, MD
Dr. Andrew L. Warshaw is the Surgeon-in-Chief and the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the W. Gerald Austen Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. A graduate of Harvard College and of Harvard Medical School, his residency training in surgery was at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He also spent two years as a Clinical Associate in the Section on Gastroenterology of the National Institutes of Health and was a Research Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Since 1972, he has been on the staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the faculty of Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Warshaw is a member of many prestigious organizations, including the Society of University Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, Society of Clinical Surgery and the International Surgical Group to name a few. He has been President of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, the International Association of Pancreatology, the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, the New England Surgical Society, the Boston Surgical Society, and the Halsted Society. He has been a Director of the American Board of Surgery and its Chairman in 1993. He served as a Governor of the American College of Surgeons and chaired its Committee on Socioeconomic Issues. Currently he is the first Vice-President of the American College of Surgeons and sits on its Health Policy Steering Committee. Dr. Warshaw is Secretary-Treasurer of the Society of Surgical Chairs and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Surgery. He has authored more than 500 publications.

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