Rachel Brandes MD MPH (She/Her)

PGY-1 General Surgery Resident Physician

Summary

General surgery resident physician at Lahey Clinic after earning her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience with a minor in Public Health from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2019. Her research contributions include publications on transplantation, circadian clocks, and peer mentoring.

Lahey ClinicResidency, Surgery, 2024 - 2029
Tufts University School of MedicineClass of 2024
University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleBS, Neuroscience (Public Health Minor), Summa Cum Laude, 2016 - 2019

PubMed

1 citations
Improved 3 Year Heart Transplant Survival in Black Recipients Following the Affordable Care Act.
Rachel A Brandes, Caroline J Liang, Brigette Suerig, Frederick Y Chen, Gregory S Couper
ASAIO Journal. 2023-07-01
2 citations
Acceptability and utility of a virtual pediatric transplant peer mentoring program: A mixed-methods analysis of a novel quality improvement program.
Steven Dean Criss, Leigh Anne Dageforde, Taylor Makena Coe, Rachel Ariel Brandes, Sienna Li
Pediatric Transplantation. 2022-11-01

Journal Articles

Investigating the effects of excitotoxic stimuli on the suprachiasmatic nucleus
Rachel A Brandes, Debalina Acharyya, RA Prosser, Pursuit Undergraduate Journal
The current neuroscientific understanding of Alzheimer's Disease
Rachel A Brandes, Pursuit Undergraduate Journal, 1/2018

Abstracts/Posters

Investigating the effects of excitotoxic stimuli on the suprachiasmatic nucleus
Rachel A Brandes, Debalina Acharyya, RA Prosser, EUReCA Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee
Investigating tPA and ethanol in the mammalian circadian clock
Rachel A Brandes, Joanna M Cooper, RA Prosser, EUReCA Poster Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee
Impact of the Affordable Care Act on heart transplant outcomes in Black patients
Rachel A Brandes, Caroline J Liang, Masashi Kawabori, EACTS Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, 10/2021