General Surgery Residency Program (2024-25)

Faculty Leadership

Clara Gomez-Sanchez, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery Associate Program Director

Kenzo Hirose, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery Program Director

Rita Mukhtar, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery Associate Program Director

Wen T. Shen, MD, MA

Professor of Surgery Associate Program Director

Lan Vu, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery Associate Program Director

Jasmine M. Wong, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery Assistant Program Director

PGY-5 (Chief Residents)

Nathan R. Brand, MD

Chief Resident (PGY-5)
General Surgery

Columbia

Audrey E. Brown, MD

Chief Resident (PGY-5)
General Surgery

OHSU

Amandine Godier-Furnemont, MD, PhD

Chief Resident (PGY-5)
General Surgery

Yale

Daniel B. Hoffman, MD

Chief Resident (PGY-5)
General Surgery

UCSF

Caroline G. Melhado, MD

Chief Resident (PGY-5)
General Surgery

Tufts

Katherine Sanders, MD

Chief Resident (PGY-5)
General Surgery

Dartmouth

Ava Yap, MD, MHSc

Chief Resident (PGY-5)
General Surgery

Yale

Mignote Yilma, MD

Chief Resident (PGY-5)
General Surgery

UCLA

PGY-4 (Senior Residents)

Riley Brian, MD, MAEd

Resident (PGY-4)
General Surgery

University of Chicago

Alexis K. Colley, MD, MS

Resident (PGY-4)
General Surgery

UCSF

Basil Karam, MD

Resident (PGY-4)
General Surgery

American Univ. of Beirut

Kirithiga Ramalingam, MD, MCH, MRCS

Resident (PGY-4)
General Surgery

Jawaharlal Institute

Thomas Sorrentino, MD

Resident (PGY-4)
General Surgery

UCSF

Caroline Stephens, MD, MPH

Resident (PGY-4)
General Surgery

OHSU

Karen Trang, MD

Resident (PGY-4)
General Surgery

Stanford

Jaeyun (Jane) Wang, MD

Resident (PGY-4)
General Surgery

Johns Hopkins

Resident Research Fellows

Ali Abbasi, MD

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

University of Chicago

Alison Baskin, MD

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

University of Michigan

Simon N. Chu, MD, MS

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

UCSF

Hannah Decker, MD

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

Emory

Kara Faktor, MD, MSc

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

UCLA

Kirkpatrick Fergus, MD, MAS

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

UCSF

Jonathan Freise, MD, MS

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

UCSF

Eva Gillis-Buck, MD

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

UCSF

Camilla Gomes, MD, MSc

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

Boston University

Axel Gomez Casarez, MD

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

UCSF

Sophia Hernandez, MD, MAS

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

UCSF

Dina Levy-Lambert, MD

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

NYU

Alyssa Murillo, MD, MSc

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

Univ. of Illinois (Chicago)

Juan Reyna, MD

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

UT Southwestern

Jessica Santos-Parker, MD, PhD

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

University of Michigan

Keli Santos-Parker, MD, MS, PhD

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

University of Michigan

Alan Zambeli-Ljepović, MD, MHS

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

Duke

PGY-3 (Junior Residents)

Chelsie Anderson, MD, MS

Resident (PGY-3)
General Surgery

UCSF

Lucia Calthorpe, MD, MPhil

Resident (PGY-3)
General Surgery

UCSF

Paige-Ashley Campbell, MD

Resident (PGY-3)
General Surgery

University of Chicago

Maria Castro, MD

Resident (PGY-3)
General Surgery

UCSF

Caroline Erickson, MD, MBA

Resident (PGY-3)
General Surgery

Vanderbilt

Alexandra Highet, MD, MSc

Resident (PGY-3)
General Surgery

University of Michigan

Phoebe Miller, MD, MS

Resident (PGY-3)
General Surgery

UCSF

Michael Ou, MD

Resident (PGY-3)
General Surgery

Johns Hopkins

Sabreea Parnell, MD

Resident (PGY-3)
General Surgery

Boston University

PGY-2

Anya Edwards, MD, MBA

Resident (PGY-2)
General Surgery

UCSF

Natalie Escobar, MD

Resident (PGY-2)
General Surgery

NYU

Ryan Keyho, MD, MPH

Resident (PGY-2)
Preliminary

UT at Houston

Russyan Mabeza, MD, MPH

Resident (PGY-2)
General Surgery

UCLA

Miguel Nuñez, MD

Resident (PGY-2)
General Surgery

UCSF

Kelsey Rankin, MD

Resident (PGY-2)
General Surgery

Yale

Sebastian Rodriguez-Torres, MD, MSc

Resident (PGY-2)
Preliminary

University of Pittsburgh

Dominique Tucker, MD

Resident (PGY-2)
General Surgery

Case Western Reserve

Makda Zewde, MD, MS

Resident (PGY-2)
General Surgery

Mount Sinai

Anna Zhao, MD, MBA

Resident (PGY-2)
General Surgery

Yale

PGY-1 (Categorical Interns)

Megan Casey, MD

Resident (PGY-1)
General Surgery

UCSF

Anna Fishbein, MD

Resident (PGY-1)
General Surgery

Georgetown

Jonathan Li, MD, MS

Resident (PGY-1)
General Surgery

UCSF

Willa Li, MD

Resident (PGY-1)
General Surgery

University of Chicago

Madeline Matthys, MD

Resident (PGY-1)
General Surgery

UCSF

Helena Record, MD, MAS

Resident (PGY-1)
General Surgery

UCSF

Fernanda Romero Hernandez, MD

Resident (PGY-1)
General Surgery

Univ. Autónoma de Querétaro

Jacob Sonnenberg, MD

Resident (PGY-1)
General Surgery

UCSF

PGY-1 (Preliminary Interns)

Brian Carlson, MD, MS

Resident (PGY-1)
Preliminary

Washington State

YouJin Cho, MD, PhD

Resident (PGY-1)
Preliminary

Ohio State

Thomas Li, MD

Resident (PGY-1)
Preliminary

Mount Sinai

Joshua Myszewski, MD

Resident (PGY-1)
Preliminary

Univ. of Wisconsin

William Shyr, MD

Resident (PGY-1)
Preliminary

Albert Einstein

Deepthi Thadasina, MD

Resident (PGY-1)
Preliminary

Indiana University

Taron Torosian, MD, MS

Resident (PGY-1)
Preliminary

Wake Forest University

Samuel Vydro, MD

Resident (PGY-1)
Preliminary

UCSF