Residents & Fellows 2021-22

To contact our residents and fellows, please call the administrative office of the Education Program at 631-444-1791/-8020; or, send an email.

 

General Surgery
   
Name
PGY
Med School (Grad Year)
Categorical    
Ahmad Aljobeth, MD 1 Mayo Clinic (2022)
Stergios Gatzoflias, MD 1 New York Medical College (2022)
Aleksandr Krichmar, MD 1 Jacobs School of Medicine (2022)
Mark Lee, MD 1 Lewis Katz School (2022)
Daniel Rodriguez, MD 1 Mayo Clinic (2022)
Brooke Rothberg, MD 1 Charles E. Schmidt (2022)
Matthew Staz, MD 1 Georgetown (2022)
     
Prelim    
Athanasios Angistriotis, MD 1 U of Athens (2022)
Bohao Cao, MD 1 American U (2022)
Karizma Chhabra, MD 1 New York Medical College (2022)
Stanley Ewala, MD 1 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2022)
Cheyenne Ganesh, MD 1 Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (2022)
Hayley Howell, MD 1 Saba U (2022)
Lillian Lai, MD 1 U of California (2022)
Vaibhav Sharma, MD 1 Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (2022)
Amir Teimouri Dereshgi, MD 1 Tabriz U (2022)
     
Categorical    
Nikita Ahmad, MD 2 New York Medical College (2021)
Rahul Kanade, MD 2 Mayo Clinic (2021)
Michael Froehlich, MD 2 George Washington U (2020)
Christopher Mazis, MD 2 U of Arizona College of Medicine (2021)
Naina Rao, MD 2 New York Medical College (2021)
Priyanka Ramachandra, MD 2 Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (2021)
Niharika Singh, MD 2 Boston U School of Medicine (2021)
     
Prelim    
Ioannis Tsouknidas, MD 2 Aristotle U of Thessaloniki (2020)
Sherry Johnson, DO 2 Des Moines U College of Osteopathic Medicine (2020)
Abhinit Shah, MD 2 Topiwala National Medical College (2026)
     
Alisa Khomutova, MD 3 Oakland U (2020)
Ashla Gaibi-Rodriguez, MD 3 University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus (2017)
Zaina Naeem, MD, MPH 3 Stony Brook U (2020)
Zachary M Plona, MD 3 Sidney Kimmel Medical College (2019)
Michael Trentalange, MD 3 Florida Atlantic U (2020)
Sun Yu, MD 3 Tufts U (2020)
     
Ryan Chan, MD 4 Albany Medical College (2018)
Kevin Duh, MD 4 Donald & Barbara Zucker School (2019)
Alexa-Rae Pesce, MD 4 Drexel U (2019)
Danny Poon, MD 4 Drexel U (2019)
Tianyu Shang, MD 4 Rosalind Franklin U (2019)
Christine Ward, MD 4 Brody School of Medicine (2019)
     
Joseph Obeid, MD 5 U of Balamand (2013)
Juyeon Park, MD 5 Virginia Tech (2018)
Bryan Robins, MD 5 Rush U (2017)
Heitham Wady, MD 5 SUNY Upstate Medical U (2018)
Ross Weller, MD 5 Loyal U Chicago (2017)
Jocellie Marquez, MD 5 Stony Brook U (2015)
     
Shanen Mulles, MD Research* Rutgers U (2020)
John Campbell, MD Research* Boston U (2020)
Daniel Wolbrom, MD Research* St. Georges U School of Medicine 

* Research year(s) is option for categorical residents in general surgery program.

 
Vascular Surgery    
Name
PGY
Med School (Grad Year)
Alex Houser, MD 1 Louisiana State U School of Medicine in New Orleans (2022)
Stefanos Giannopoulos, MD 2 Aristotle U of Thessaloniki Faculty of Medicine (2017)
Camilo Martinez, MD 3 Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (2020)
Josue Gutierrez, MD 4 U of Minnesota Medical School (2018)
Edwin Cheung, MD 5 Thomas Jefferson U (2018)
Panagiotis Volteas 6 Demokritos University of Thrace Department of 
Patrick Jasinski, MD 7 Medical U of Gdansk (2013)
     

 

 
Otolaryngology    
Name
PGY
Med School (Grad Year)
Alexander Bjorling, MD 1 Cooper Medical School of Rowan U (2022)
David Shimunov, MD 2 Sackler School of Medicine (2021)
David Lehmann, MD 3 Northwestern U Feinberg School of Medicine (2020)
Jerlon Chiu, MD 4 UConn (2019)
James Metkus, MD 5 Thomas Jefferson U (2017)
     

 

 
Plastic Surgery    
Name
PGY
Med School (Grad Year)
Kim Rotem 1 Perelman School of Medicine at U of Pennsylvania (2022)
Zachary Erlichman 2 Tufts U School of Medicine (2021)
Christopher Liao, MD 3 Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (2020)
Justin Buro, MD 4 George Washington U School of Medicine and Health Services (2018)
Abdel Armaiz-Flores, MD 5 U of Puerto Rico (2018)
Donald Groves, MD 6 U of Miami (2016)

 

 
Colon and Rectal Surgery    
Name
PGY
Med School (Grad Year)
Monisha Banerjee, MD 6 U of Colorado School of Medicine (2014) 

 

 
Critical Care Surgery    
Name
PGY
Med School (Grad Year)
Deoranie Abdel-Naby, MD 6 St George's U (2014)
Vinoth Birabaharan, MD 6 Zucker School of Medicine (2017)

 

 
MIS/Bariatric Surgery    
Name
PGY
Med School (Grad Year)
Edmund Lee, MD 6 Rutgers U (2015)
Mohammed Elshamy, MD 6 Ains Shams U Faculty of Medicine (2012)