General Surgery Residency
College
- Center City Campus
- Sidney Kimmel Medical College
Degree Earned
- Residency
Program Length
6 - 7 years
Program Type
- On Campus
Call to Actions
2024/25 Interview Dates
Thursday, Nov 7 *
Thursday, Dec 5
Saturday, Dec 14
Thursday, Jan 9
* Jefferson students only
Leadership
Positions:
- Program Director
- Francis E. Rosato Professor in Surgery
Program Contact
Position:
Program Coordinator
1015 Walnut Street
Curtis Building Suite 613
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Email:
[email protected]
Contact Number(s):
Graduates
Each year, 98 percent of graduating Jefferson surgical residents pass both the written and oral boards.
Nearly all program graduates (94%) seek specialty training after completion of their residency. The table below lists where our residents have gone on to train and practice immediately following graduation:
2024 General Surgery Residency Chiefs with Program Director Karen A. Chojnacki, MD (center): Drs. James Fraser, Uzma Rahman, Andrew Hallett, Ryan Lamm, Brian Till, Walker Lyons, and Madison Crutcher.
2024
Crutcher | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | Northwestern |
Fraser | Fellowship | Minimally Invasive Surgery | UC Irvine |
Hallett | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | Corewell/Spectrum Health (MI) |
Lamm | Fellowship | Complex General Surgical Oncology | City of Hope Medical Center (CA) |
Lyons | Fellowship | Breast Surgical Oncology | Fox Chase Cancer Center/Temple Health |
Rahman | Fellowship | Cardiothoracic Surgery | Johns Hopkins |
Till | Fellowship | Cardiothoracic Surgery | UCSF |
2023 General Surgery Residency Chiefs with Program Director Karen A. Chojnacki, MD (center): Drs. Keyur Patel, Adrienne Christopher, Osama Shaheen, Lindsay Lynch, Peter Altshuler, Lisa Bevilacqua, and Prashanth Palvannan.
2023
Altshuler | Fellowship | Transplant Surgery | UCSF |
Bevilacqua | Fellowship | Cardiothoracic Surgery | Brigham & Women's |
Christopher | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | Vanderbilt |
Lynch | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | Wake Forest |
Palvannan | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | Mount Sinai |
Patel | Fellowship | Trauma / Surgical Critical Care | UT Southwestern |
Shaheen | Fellowship | Minimally Invasive Surgery | UCSF Fresno |
2022 General Surgery Residency Chiefs with Program Director Karen A. Chojnacki, MD (center): Drs. Nkosi Alvarez, Steven Woodward, Thomas O'Malley, Arturo Rios-Diaz, Alicja Zalewski, Richard Zheng, and Courtney Devin.
2022
Alvarez | Fellowship | Cardiothoracic Surgery | Johns Hopkins |
Devin | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | Emory |
O'Malley | Fellowship | Cardiothoracic Surgery | Emory |
Rios Diaz | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | University of Pennsylvania |
Woodward | Fellowship | Breast Surgery | University of Pennsylvania |
Zalewski | Fellowship | Minimally Invasive Surgery | Baystate |
Zheng | Fellowship | Surgical Oncology | Johns Hopkins |
2021
2021 General Surgery Residency Chiefs with Program Director Karen A. Chojnacki, MD (center)
Callahan | Fellowship | Minimally Invasive Surgery | Northshore Health System |
Caparosa | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | Thomas Jefferson University Hospital |
Gadomski | Fellowship | Acute Care Surgery | Vanderbilt University |
Kincaid | Fellowship | Surgical Critical Care | Penn State |
Kozak | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | University of Pennsylvania |
Kucejko | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | Lahey Clinic |
2020 General Surgery Residency Chiefs with Program Director Karen A. Chojnacki, MD (center)
2020
Chevrollier | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | Ochsner Medical Center |
Hewitt | Fellowship | Surgical Oncology | Ohio State |
Jacovides | Fellowship | Trauma Surgery | University of Pennsylvania |
Lundgren | Fellowship | Minimally Invasive Surgery | Cleveland Clinic |
Nandra | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | Rutgers University |
Stem | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | University of Wisconsin |
2019 General Surgery Residency Chiefs
2019
Aka | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | Florida Hospital - Orlando |
Brown | Fellowship | Minimally Invasive Surgery | Stony Brook University |
Dukleska | Fellowship | Pediatric Surgery | University of Connecticut |
Johnson, A. | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | NYP Columbia/Cornell |
Latona | Fellowship | Surgical Critical Care | Thomas Jefferson University Hospital |
McKeown | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | Rutgers/Robert Wood Johnson |
2018 General Surgery Residency Chiefs with Charles J. Yeo, MD (center)
2018
Costanzo | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | Thomas Jefferson University Hospital |
Giugliano | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | Cleveland Clinic |
Koganti | Fellowship | Trauma Surgery | Emory University |
Strickland | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | Wake Forest University |
Tannouri | Fellowship | Minimally Invasive Surgery | University of Maryland |
Tatarian | Fellowship | Minimally Invasive Surgery | Stony Brook University |
2017
Holoyda | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | University of Utah |
Lotto | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | Brigham and Women's Hospital |
Sarik | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | Cleveland Clinic, Miami, FL |
Sooppan | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | Johns Hopkins University |
Takyi | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | Loyola University, IL |
2016
Batista | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania |
Crawford | Fellowship | Breast Surgery | Fox Chase Cancer Center |
Devitt | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | University of Texas, Southwestern |
Harrison | Fellowship | Thoracic Surgery | University of Virginia |
Price | Fellowship | Critical Care/Burns | University of North Carolina |
Sion | Fellowship | MIS/HPB Surgery | Thomas Jefferson University Hospital |
2015
Burkhart | Fellowship | Surgical Oncology | Johns Hopkins |
Kang | Fellowship | Critical Care | Cedar Sinai Medical Center |
Lamb | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | University of Pennsylvania |
Munoz | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | Temple University Hospital |
Sarosiek | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | Vanderbilt University Hospital |
Tholey | Fellowship | Minimally Invasive Surgery | Cornell University Hospital |
2014
Pineda | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | Pennsylvania Hospital |
Policha | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | New York University |
Punja | Fellowship | Critical Care Surgery | Thomas Jefferson University Hospital |
Relles | Fellowship | Pediatric Surgery | Columbia University |
Singh | Fellowship | MIS/HPB Surgery | Thomas Jefferson University Hospital |
Stransky | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | Johns Hopkins Hospital |
2013
Assifi | Fellowship | Surgical Oncology | University of Pittsburgh |
Bodzin | Fellowship | Transplant Surgery | UCLA |
Marks | Fellowship | Trauma Surgery | University of Pennsylvania |
Rittenhouse | Fellowship | Critical Care Surgery | Thomas Jefferson University Hospital |
Talbott | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | Oregon Health & Science |
2012
Comeau | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | Albany Medical Center |
Fernandez | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | University of Florida, Gainesville |
Lazar | Fellowship | Breast Surgery | Northwestern University |
Pucci | Fellowship | MIS/HPB Surgery | Thomas Jefferson University Hospital |
Richards | Fellowship | Laparoscopic Surgery | George Washington University |
Rodriguez, J. | Fellowship | Surgical Critical Care/Trauma | Inova, Fairfax, VA |
2011
Abdollahi | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | Temple University Hospital |
Bildzukewicz | Fellowship | Minimally Invasive Surgery | University of CA, San Diego |
Moudgill, L. | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey |
Rosen | Fellowship | Critical Care Surgery | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA |
Shirley | Fellowship | Surgical Oncology | Ohio State University Medical Center |
Sullivan | Fellowship | Thoracic Surgery | University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento |
2010
Goldberg | Fellowship | Minimally Invasive Surgery | Mayo Clinic (Florida) |
Hager | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | University of Pittsburgh |
Moudgill, N. | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | Thomas Jefferson University Hospital |
Noto | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | Lehigh Valley Hospital |
Showalter | Research | Colorectal Surgery | University of Pennsylvania |
Williams | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | Johns Hopkins |
2009
Grabo | Military Commitment | 2009-2010 | |
Fellowship | Trauma/Critical Care Surgery | University of Pennsylvania | |
Lakshman | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | Cleveland Clinic (Florida) |
Levy | Private Practice | Surgery | |
Milan | Fellowship | Endocrine Surgery | Yale University |
Sailes | Fellowship | Hand Surgery & Plastic Surgery | University of Mississippi |
Tarola | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | Vanderbilt |
2008
Bagameri | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | Thomas Jefferson University Hospital |
Chung | Fellowship | MIS/HPB Surgery | Thomas Jefferson University Hospital |
Fischer | Fellowship | Laparoscopic Surgery | University of CA, San Diego |
Golesorkhi | Fellowship | Breast Surgery | Allegheny Medical Center, Pittsburgh |
McGuire | Fellowship | Breast Surgery | Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa |
Rao | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | University of Pittsburgh |
2007
Greaney | Fellowships | Burn Fellowship | Cornell University, NYC |
Plastic Surgery | Albert Einstein/ Montefiore Medical Center, NYC | ||
Microsurgery | NYU Langone Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital, NYC | ||
Lee | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | University of Minnesota |
Otterburn | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | Emory University |
Palazzo | Fellowship | Laparoscopic Surgery | University of California, San Francisco |
Solomon | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN |
2006
Martin | Fellowship | Trauma/Critical Care Surgery | University of Pennsylvania |
Perkins | Faculty | General Surgery | Oregon Health & Sciences University, International Surgery Program in Pakistan |
Radzio | Fellowship | Breast Surgery | University of CA, San Francisco |
String | Fellowship | Endoscopic Surgery | Charite Hospital - Germany |
Timmapuri | Fellowship | Pediatric Surgery | St. Christopher’s Hospital |
2005
Arthur | Fellowship | Pediatric Surgery | Ohio State University |
Eisenberg | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | Pennsylvania Hospital |
Hoxworth | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | University of Texas – SW |
Jenoff | Fellowship | Trauma/Critical Care Surgery | University of Pennsylvania |
Rosato, Jr. | Fellowship | Laparoscopic Surgery | Presbyterian Hospital (University of Pennsylvania) |
Schaner | Fellowships | Hand Surgery | University of Louisville |
Plastic Surgery | University of TX – San Antonio |
2004
Caterson | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | Lahey Clinic |
Cowan | Fellowship | CT Surgery | Mass. General Hospital |
Kuenzler | Fellowship | Pediatric Surgery | Columbia University |
Maron | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | Cleveland Clinic (Florida) |
Pearson | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | University of Minnesota |
Segan | Fellowship | Laparoscopic Surgery | University of Maryland |
2003
Grace | Private Practice | Surgery | Bozeman, MT |
Jones | Fellowship | Pediatric Surgery | Children’s Hospital of Buffalo |
Lal | Private Practice | Surgery | Fairlawn, OH |
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Profeta | Fellowship | Laparoscopic Surgery | Medical College of Virginia |
2002
Dillavou | Fellowship | Vascular Surgery | University of Pittsburgh |
Johnson, S. | Fellowship | Trauma Surgery | University of Maryland |
Lynn | Private Practice | Surgery | Wilmington, NC |
Ormont | Private Practice | Surgery | Elkton, MD |
Rodriquez, E. | Fellowship | Cardiothoracic Surgery | Thomas Jefferson University Hospital |
Stein | Fellowship | Colorectal Surgery | Cleveland Clinic |
Tichansky | Fellowship | Laparoscopic Surgery | Medical College of Virginia |
Tuma | Fellowship | Plastic Surgery | Emory |