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General Surgery Residency
College
- Center City Campus
- Sidney Kimmel Medical College
Degree Earned
- Residency
Program Length
6 - 7 years
Program Type
- On Campus
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):
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 |