Meet Our Residents - Penn Medicine

Listed below are the current General Surgery residents by training year.

Chief Residents

Sara Palazzo Ginzberg, MD, MSHP

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: University of Michigan

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Valerie L. Luks, MD, MHS

Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Tufts University

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John S. Riley, MD MS

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: Harvard University

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Sanford E. Roberts III, MD, MSCE

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: Stanford University

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Claire B. Rosen, MD, MSME

Medical School: University of Maryland School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Johns Hopkins University

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Cimarron E. Sharon, MD

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: Muhlenberg College

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Jacqueline M. Soegaard Ballester, MD, MBMI

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Alexander K. Warshauer, MD

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: Boston College

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Anna E. Garcia Whitlock, MD, PhD

Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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CY4

Amanda L. Bader, MD

Medical School: Stony Brook University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: University of Pennsylvania

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Emna Bakillah, MD

Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine Undergraduate School: Drexel University

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Jack S. DePaolo, MD, PhD

Medical School: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans

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William R. Johnston, MD

Medical School: Washington University, St. Louis Undergraduate School: Vanderbilt University

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Ariel Nehemiah, MD, MS

Medical School: Howard University Undergraduate School: University of Maryland

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Jesse E. Passman, MD, MPH

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Rice University

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Jeffrey L. Roberson, MD

Medical School: George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Undergraduate School: University of Virginia

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Karissa Tauber, MD

Medical School: Dartmouth

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Gabriella N. Tortorello, MD

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: Yale University

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Lab Residents

Drew W. Goldberg, MD, MSTR

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: University of Pennsylvania

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Madison Grasty, MD, MS

Medical School: Wayne State University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Cornell University

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Jasmine Hwang, MD, MS

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Undergraduate School: University of Pennsylvania

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Waseem Lutfi, MD

Medical School: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Undergraduate School: University of California, Santa Cruz

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Nicolas Muñoz, MD

Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: University of Texas, Austin

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Christopher J. Neylan, MD

Medical School: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Undergraduate School: University of Pennsylvania

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Juan Esteban Perez, MD

Medical School: Universidad Internacional del Ecuador Undergraduate School: Villanova University

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Adele S. Ricciardi, MD, PhD

Medical School: Yale School of Medicine Undergraduate School: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Neha Shafique, MD

Medical School: Harvard Medical School Undergraduate School: Wesleyan University

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Rachael Chapman Acker, MD

Medical School: Harvard Medical School Undergraduate School: University of California, Berkeley

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Karole T. Collier, MD

Medical School: University at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate School: Barnard College, Columbia University

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Elizabeth M. De Jesus, MD

Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Temple University

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Mohammad Saad Farooq, MD, MS

Medical School: New York University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Cornell University

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Joseph A. Kern, MD

Medical School: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Undergraduate School: University of Pittsburgh

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John (Jack) C. McVey, MD

Medical School: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine Undergraduate School: University of Colorado at Boulder

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Natalie A. Moreno, MD

Medical School: University of Michigan Medical School Undergraduate School: Johns Hopkins University

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Evan H. Smith, MD

Medical School: Howard University College of Medicine Undergraduate School: Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University

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Gracia Maria Vargas, MD

Medical School: University of Michigan Undergraduate School: Yale University

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CY3

Omar Bushara, MD, MPH

Medical School: Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Harvard University

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Michael G. Clark, MD

Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Johns Hopkins University

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Katharine L. Krupp, MD

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: Bowdoin College

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Sarah I. Landau, MD

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: Yale University

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Yangzi Clarissa Liu, MD

Medical School: Vanderbilt University Undergraduate School: University of Pennsylvania

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Lily Owei, MD

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: University of Pennsylvania

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Margaret S. Pichardo, MD, PhD, MPH

Medical School: Howard University College of Medicine Undergraduate School: New York University

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Russell A. Simons, MD, MPH

Medical School: University of Chicago Undergraduate School: Boston College

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Jerica C Tidwell, DO

Medical School: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Undergraduate School: San Diego State University

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CY2

Iulia Barbur, MD

Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Case Western Reserve

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Juliana Castrillon, MD

Medical School: Columbia Undergraduate School: Harvard

Charles Crepy D'Orleans, MD

Medical School: Emory University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Johns Hopkins University

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Kathleen Davin, MD

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: Notre Dame

J. Nate Diehl, MD, PhD

Medical School: UNC - Chapel Hill Undergraduate School: Clemson University

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Melody O. Gomez, MD

Medical School: Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons Undergraduate School: Harvard University

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Yash Kadakia, MD

Medical School: University of Texas - Southwestern Undergraduate School: University of Texas - Dallas

Nithya Kanagasegar, MD

Medical School: Case Western Reserve Undergraduate School: Case Western Reserve

James Wester, MD

Medical School: Northwestern Undergraduate School: Northwestern

Interns

Shawn S. Ahn, MD, PhD

Medical School: Yale School of Medicine Graduate School: Yale University Undergraduate School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Rucha Alur, MD/ML

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School: Carey School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: Princeton University

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Hannah Rose Calvelli, MD, MAUB

Medical School: Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University Undergraduate School: Rutgers University

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Julia Anna Gasior, MD

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: Georgetown University

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Macy M. Goldbach, MD

Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry Undergraduate School: Haverford College

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Zachariah L. Lee, MD

Medical School: University of Maryland School of Medicine Undergraduate School: University of Pennsylvania

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Eliana Marostica, MD, MBI

Medical School: Harvard Medical School Graduate School: Harvard Medical School Undergraduate School: Wellesley College

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Vikram S. Pothuri, MD, MPHS

Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Princeton University

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Henry D. Seidel, MD

Medical School: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Tufts University

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Preliminary Residents

Núria Lluís, MD, PhD

CY2

Medical School: Miguel Hernández University

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Jonathan Jung

CY2

Medical School: University of Glasgow

Syeda Manahil Jeoffrey

CY2

Medical School: Ziauddin Medical College

Carmen de Carvajal Cebrian

CY1

Medical School: Universidad de Navarra Facultad de Medicina

Kevin Horton-Schleicher

CY1

Medical School: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland School of Medicine

Nicole H. Kim, MD

CY1

Medical School: Harvard Medical School Undergraduate School: Harvard University

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Margaret McCarthy

CY1

Medical School: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland School of Medicine

Artsiom Meliukh

CY1

Medical School: Belarusian State Medical University

Tessa E. Muss, MD

CY1

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: Harvard University

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Resheek Nerella

CY1

Medical School: Rangaraya Medical College

Jesmin Ram

CY1

Medical School: St. George’s University School of Medicine

Amna Zubia Syeda

CY1

Medical School: Ziauddin Medical College

Angela Tang

CY1

Medical School: University of Virginia School of Medicine