General Surgery Residency
College
- Center City Campus
- Sidney Kimmel Medical College
Degree Earned
- Residency
Program Length
6 - 7 years
Program Type
- On Campus
2024/25 Interview Dates
Thursday, Nov 7 *
Thursday, Dec 5
Saturday, Dec 14
Thursday, Jan 9
* Jefferson students only
Leadership
Name:
Karen Chojnacki, MD
Position:
- Program Director
- Francis E. Rosato Professor in Surgery
Program Contact
Name:
Brielle Maugeri Gonzalez
Position:
Program Coordinator
1015 Walnut Street
Curtis Building Suite 613
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Contact Number(s):
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |