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Post-graduate positions for 2026 graduating chief residents

Post-graduate positions for 2025 graduating chief residents



2024

Name Post-Graduate Position
Victoria Cui, MD Fellowship: Trauma/Critical Care Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis
Romina Deldar, MD Fellowship: Plastic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania
Rachael Essig, MD Fellowship: CT (Cardiac Surgery), University of Utah
Danielle Grossman, MDFellowship: Minimally Invasive Surgery, Cornell University
Timothy Holleran, MD Fellowship: Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida
Maya Jackson, MD Fellowship: Bariatric Surgery, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance
John Keyloun, MD Fellowship: Minimally Invasive Surgery, Johns Hopkins at Sibley Memorial Hospital
Monika Masanam, MD Fellowship: Breast Surgery, Mass General Brigham
Aradhya Nigam, MD Fellowship: Surgical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering
Kieranjeet Nijhar, MD Fellowship: Trauma/Critical Care Surgery, University of Miami
Whitney Sutton, MD Fellowship: CT (Thoracic Surgery), Memorial Sloan Kettering


2023

Name Post-Graduate Position
Mai Al Khadem, MBBCh Fellowship: MIS Bariatric/Foregut Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Megan Bouchard, MD, MPH Fellowship: Pediatric Surgery, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University
Raul Caso, MD, MSCI Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Brian Cohen, MD Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center
Kathryn LaRusso, MD, MPH, PhDc Fellowship: Transplant Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Chamilka Merle, MD Fellowship: Plastic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Evan Merle, MD Fellowship: Vascular Surgery, Boston Medical Center
Ariana Metchik, MD Fellowship: Trauma, Acute Care & Surgical Critical Care, Emory University School of Medicine
Adam Reese, MD Fellowship: ICU Critical Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Hartford Hospital
JaeHee (Jane) Yoon, MD Fellowship: Trauma/Critical Care, University of Southern California


2022

Name Post-Graduate Position
Aska Arnautovic, MD Fellowship: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Amber Himmler, MD Fellowship: Surgical Critical Care, University of California San Francisco
Tyler Holliday, MD Fellowship: Surgical Critical Care, University of Tennessee
Anee Sophia Jackson, MD Fellowship: Endocrine Surgery, University of Michigan
Anna Kata, MD Fellowship: Colon and Rectal Surgery, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
Bavana Ketha, MD Fellowship: MIS/Bariatric, Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
Alexander Lofthus, MD Fellowship: Complex General Surgical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Fady Paul Marji, MD Fellowship: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Florida
Kathryn Maselli, MD Fellowship: Pediatric Surgical Critical Care, University of Michigan
Naghmeh Pirsaharkhizlangroudi, MD Private Practice: UVA Health Haymarket Medical Center
Reshmi Udesh, MBBS Private Practice: Tidal Health


2021

Name Post-Graduate Position
Rachel Akintayo, MD Fellowship: Plastic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dany Barrak, MD, MPH Fellowship: Surgical Oncology, Temple University
Lindsey Gade, MD, MS Fellowship: Colorectal Surgery, St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center
Gaurav Garg, MD, MS Fellowship: Surgical Critical Care, University of Southern California
Matthew Holzner, MD Fellowship: Transplant, Mount Sinai
D. Hillary Kim, MD Fellowship: Minimally Invasive Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Nathaly Llore, MD Fellowship: Transplant, Columbia-NewYork Presbyterian
Kelly Sutter, MD Fellowship: Trauma/Surgical Critical Care, MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Candice Thompson, MD Fellowship: Breast Surgery, Stanford University


2020

Name Post-Graduate Position
Oswaldo Aguirre, MD Fellowship: Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary, MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute
Yewande Alimi, MDFellowship: Advanced GI MIS/Bariatrics, Stanford University
Mohamed Hassanein, MD, PhD, MPH Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Brenna Houlihan, MDFellowship: Colon and Rectal Surgery, University of Louisville
Gabriel Ivey, MD Fellowship: Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Johns Hopkins University
Lauren Nosanov, MD Fellowship: Burn Surgery, William Randolph Hearst Burn Center at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Vardan Papoian, MD, MPH Research: Endocrine Surgery, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC
Rafael Tolentino, MDFellowship: Trauma/Surgical Critical Care, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Anthony Villano, MD Fellowship: Complex General Surgical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Caitlin Wahl, MD Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University


2019

Name Post-Graduate Position

Jason Chen, MD

Fellowship: Colon and Rectal Surgery, University of Southern California

Ornela Dervishaj, MD

Fellowship: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Temple University

Humair Quadri, MD

Fellowship: Surgical Oncology, Cedars-Sinai

Salaam Sadi, MD

Fellowship: Minimally Invasive Surgery, Albany Medical Center

Danielle Salazar, MD, MA

Fellowship: Vascular Surgery, MedStar Washington Hospital Center

Jenny Shao, MD

Fellowship: Minimally Invasive Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center

Chaitanya Vadlamudi, MD, MBA

Fellowship: Minimally Invasive Surgery, The Ohio State University

Mariana Vigiola Cruz, MD

Fellowship: Advanced GI and Minimally Invasive Surgery, New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Eugene Wang, MD

Future Plans: General Surgery, Kaiser Permanente of Southern California

Danjing Zhao, MD

Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Surgery, Allegheny General Hospital


2018

Name Post-Graduate Position

Ravi Bamba, MD

Fellowship: Indiana University Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

Anne Fabrizio, MD

Fellowship: Brigham and Women's, Colorectal Surgery

Conor Hynes, MD

Fellowship: Washington University in St. Louis, Cardiothoracic Surgery

Amanda Pysher, MD

Fellowship: University of Virginia, Minimally Invasive Surgery

Michael Sosin, MD

Fellowship: NYU Langone Medical Center, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery


2017

Name Post-Graduate Position

Johnny Costello, MD

Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Chicago, IL

Chris Devulapalli, MD

Fellowship: Plastic Surgery, University of Miami

Elizabeth Hechenbleikner, MD

Fellowship: Minimally Invasive Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY

Annie Roberts, MD

Research: Pediatric Surgery, The Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, CA


2016

Name Post-Graduate Position

Caroline Butler, MD

Fellowship: Trauma and Critical Care, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL

Young K. Hong, MD

Fellowship: Surgical Oncology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

Christa Grant, MD

Fellowship: Pediatric Surgery, The University of Michigan

Dominic Emerson, MD

Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, CA


2015

Name Post-Graduate Position

Erin Hall, MD, MPH

Fellowship: Trauma Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, University of Maryland

Russell Langan, MD

Fellowship: Surgical Oncology Fellowship, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Allison Linden, MD, MPH

Fellowship: ECMO, University of Chicago, IL

Manish Tushar Raiji, MD, MA

Fellowship: Pediatric Surgery, University of Chicago, IL

Trevor Upham, MD

Fellowship: Thoracic Surgery, University of California, San Diego


2014

Name Post-Graduate Position

Greg Pattakos, MD

Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Surgery; Texas Heart Institute

Sujata Gill, MD

Fellowship: Laparoscopic Surgery; Emory University

Rubie Sue Jackson, MD

Fellowship: Breast Surgical Oncology; Anne Arundel Medical Center

Brock Lanier, MD

Fellowship: Plastic Surgery Fellowship, University of Southern California

Yong Kwon, MD

Fellowship: Abdominal Organ Transplantation; Georgetown University Hospital


2013

Name Post-Graduate Position

Sheri Kardooni, MD

Fellowship: Trauma/Critical Care Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital

Denise Lo, MD

Fellowship: Abdominal Organ Transplantation at Emory University Hospital

Aarti Mathur, MD

Fellowship: Endocrine Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital

David Spurlock, MD

Fellowship: Thoracic Surgery at University of Michigan

Arun Thenappan, MD

Fellowship: Pediatric Surgical Critical Care at University of Michigan


2012

Name Post-Graduate Position

Gary DeCesare, MD

Fellowship: Plastic Surgery Fellowship at UCLA

Jay Graham, MD

Fellowship: Transplant Surgery Fellowship, Columbia University Hospital

Matthew Reinersman, MD

Fellowship: Thoracic Surgery Fellowship at Mayo Clinic

Shafik Sidani, MD

Fellowship: Colorectal Surgery Fellowship at the University of Minnesota

Anit Vettukattil, MD

Fellowship: Minimally Invasive Fellowship at Rhode Island Hospital of Brown University


2011

Name Post-Graduate Position

Lisa Rae, MD

Fellowship: Burn Fellowship at University of Washington

Keith Thatch, MD

Fellowship: Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Michigan

Steve Varga, MD

Fellowship: Trauma and Critical Care Fellowship at UCLA

Joyce Wong, MD

Fellowship: Surgical Oncology Fellowship at Moffitt Cancer Center


2010

Name Post-Graduate Position

Elizabeth David

Fellowship: Thoracic Surgery, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Jennifer Sexton, MD

Fellowship: Vascular Surgery, Washington Hospital Center

Mark Slidell, MD

Fellowship: Pediatric Surgery, Children's National Medical Center

Africa Wallace, MD

Fellowship: Thoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center


2009

Name Post-Graduate Position

Sara Bloom, MD

Fellowship: Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute, New York, NY

David Bruno, MD

Fellowship: Abdominal Organ Transplantation Fellowship, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Derrick Cox, MD

Fellowship: Oncology Fellowship, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY

Krit Kitisin, MD

Fellowship: Surgical Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Gitonga Munene, MD

Fellowship: Surgical Oncology, Tom Baker Cancer Center at University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Yoori Lee, MD

Fellowship: Colorectal Research, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute, New York, NY


2008

Name Post-Graduate Position

Chris Abularrage, MD

Fellowship: Vascular Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital

Aimee Crago, MD

Fellowship: Surgical Oncology, Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital

Aziz Merchant, MD

Fellowship: Pediatric Surgery, University of Chicago

Kiran Dhanireddy, MD

Fellowship: Hepatobiliary/Transplant, University of California, Los Angeles

Eleanor Court, MD

Military Service: United States Air Force


2007

Name Post-Graduate Position

Elizabeth Feldman, MD

Fellowship: Breast

Elizabeth Warner, MD

Private Practice

Deepak Vikram, MD

Fellowship: Hepatobiliary/Transplant

Patricia Lee

Private Practice


2006

Name Post-Graduate Position

Meera Menon, MD

Private Practice: Florida

Chris Rhim, MD

Residency: Plastic Surgery, University of California at Irvine

Edwin Preston, MD

Fellowship: Hepatobiliary Transplant, Georgetown University Hospital

Tamica White, MD

Fellowship: Cardio Thoracic, Cornell University, New York, New York

Alexander Wohler, MD

Fellowship: Cardio Thoracic, Mount Sinai School of Medicine


2005

Name Post-Graduate Position

Louis C. Benjamin, III, MD

Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh

Alvaro Garcia, MD

Fellowship: Colorectal, Orlando, Florida

Sugene Kim, MD

Fellowship: Plastic Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center

Sotiris Stamou, MD

Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic


2004

Name Post-Graduate Position

Elizabeth Castillo, MD

Fellowship: Plastic Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

William Fuller, MD

Fellowship: Laparoscopic, UC Davis

Kimberly Hendershot, MD

Fellowship: Critical Care, INOVA Fairfax Hospital

Babak Moeinolmolki, MD

Fellowship: Laparoscopic, Montefiore Medical Center

Kim E. Schultheiss, MD

Fellowship: Trauma, University of Pennsylvania

Khaled Shebani, MD

Fellowship: Laparoscopic, Texas Tech University


2003

Name Post-Graduate Position

Jasmine Malcolm, MD

Private Practice

Martin Makary, MD

Faculty: Johns Hopkins Hospital

Puli Pravin Reddy, MD

Fellowship: Plastic Surgery, McGill University Health Center


2002

Name Post-Graduate Position

Matthew Baker, MD

Fellowship: Plastic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Charles Cappadona, MD

Fellowship: Laparoscopic, Columbia University

Carlos Marroquin, MD

Fellowship: Transplant, Duke University Medical Center

Maureen O'Donnell, MD

Private Practice

Marc M. Zaré, MD

Fellowship: Laparoscopic, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Medical Center

Alumni – MedStar Washington Hospital Center


2018

Name Post-Graduate Position

Shawn Kettyle, MD

Trauma/Acute Care Surgery, Attending – St. Vincent’s Hospital, CT

Mei Li Kwong, MD

Complex Surgical Oncology Fellowship – Loma Linda University Health, CA

Michail Mavros, MD

Complex Surgical Oncology / Hepatobiliary/Pancreatic (HPB) Surgery Fellowship – University of Toronto, Canada

Matthew Sharbaugh, DO

Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship – Albany Medical Center, NY

Shawn Tejiram, MD

Burn/Critical Care Surgery Fellowship – University of California Davis, CA


2017

Name Post-Graduate Position

Robel Beyene, MD

Acute Care Surgery Fellowship – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Joseph Greene, MD, MBA

Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship – INOVA Fairfax

Shabnam Hafiz, MD, MPH

Trauma/Surgical Critical Care Fellowship – Ryder Trauma Center at University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital

Taryn Travis, MD

Attending, Division of Burn Surgery – MedStar Washington Hospital Center


2016

Name Post-Graduate Position

Nchang Azefor, MD

General Surgery – TBD

Sara Chaffee, MD

General Surgery – Village Surgical Associates, P.A., Fayetteville, NC

Kara Monday, MD

Surgical Critical Care Fellowship – Baylor, Scott & White, TX

Naderge Pierre, MD

Colon and Rectal Fellowship – Georgia Colon and Rectal Specialists, GA

Charlie Srivilasa, MD

Trauma/Surgical Critical Care Fellowship – San Antonio Military Medical Center, TX


2015

Name Post-Graduate Position

Elizabeth Zubowicz, MD

General & Minimally Invasive Surgery – MedStar Washington Hospital Center

Earl Thompson, MD

Colorectal Surgery Fellowship – University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Brian Rezvani, MD

Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship – University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

William Yi, MD

General Surgery – MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center

Neil Mauskar, MD

Plastic Surgery Fellowship – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX


2014

Name Post-Graduate Position

Duncan Yoder, MD

Transplant Surgery Fellowship – University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE

Reid Vegeler, MD

Colorectal Surgery Fellowship – Colon & Rectal Clinic of Orlando, Orlando, FL

Jeffrey Shupp, MD

Director, Burn Surgery – MedStar Washington Hospital Center

Sarah Carter, MD

Surgical Critical Care Fellowship – Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, DE

Jenny Hong, MD

Surgical Oncology Fellowship – Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA


2013

Name Post-Graduate Position

Beth Amundsen, MD

Transplant Surgery Fellowship – Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Kamel Brakta, MD

General Surgery – Willis-Knighton Health System, Shreveport, LA

Kristopher Hamwi, MD

Plastic Surgery Fellowship – Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

Seema Mittal, MD, MPH

Surgical Critical Care Fellowship – Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, FL

Elizabeth O’Leary, MD

General Surgery – Chevy Chase, MD


2012

Name Post-Graduate Position

Ervind Bhogte, MD

General Surgery – Calvert Surgical Care, Prince Frederick, MD
Surgical Critical Care Fellowship – MedStar Washington Hospital Center

Eleisha Flanagan, MD

General/MIS Surgery – University of Maryland Medical System
MIS Fellowship – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Tareq Kheirbek, MD

Trauma and Acute Care Surgery – Rhode Island Hospital / Brown University, Providence, RI
Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery Fellowship – University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Karina McArthur, MD

General/Bariatric Surgery – Kaiser Permanente, Washington, D.C.
Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Virginia Park, MD

General Surgery – Reston Hospital Center, Reston, VA

Patricia Wehner, MD

Breast Surgery – MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Breast Surgery Fellowship – University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA


2011

Name Post-Graduate Position

Andrew Erickson, MD

General Surgery – Gifford Medical Center, Randolph, VT

Terral Goode, MD

Trauma/Surgical Critical Care Fellowship – Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Tariq Ibrahim, MD

General Surgery – Gallup Indian Medical Center, Gallup, NM

Melissa Kath, MD

Plastic Surgery Fellowship – University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN

Elliot Zahtz, MD

Transplant Surgery Fellowship – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN


2010

Name Post-Graduate Position
Ali Jawed, MD

General Surgery – Bangor, ME

Laura Johnson, MD

Burn, Trauma, and Critical Care Surgery – MedStar Washington Hospital Center Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship – Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Christian Shults, MD

Cardiac Surgery – MedStar Washington Hospital Center Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship – Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Jeremy Whitt, MD

General/Vascular Surgery – West Memphis, AR