Meet the Residents

Medical School: Columbia University
Undergraduate Institution: Georgetown University
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Interests: Backpacking/hiking trips, skiing (but only on the west coast), scuba diving, exploring new cities, pick-up soccer
Research Interests: Pediatric surgery, global surgery, surgical outcomes-based research

Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: University of Texas
Hometown: Cypress, TX
Interests: Reading, board games, herpetology, kickboxing, knitting
Research Interests: Abdominal transplantation, regenerative medicine, health equity

Medical School: Texas A&M
Undergraduate Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Hometown: Austin, TX
Interests: Traveling, concerts, going out to new restaurants and bars, house plants, cooking and video games
Research Interests: Outcomes and clinical research in either thoracic surgery or MIS, surgical education

Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Undergraduate Institution: Washington University in St. Louis
Hometown: Aurora, CO
Interests: Soccer, Hiking, Escape rooms, board games, Random adventures in LA
Research Interests: Global surgery, Health Equity, Trauma Surgery, Health policy

Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate Institution: Yale College
Hometown: Honolulu, Hawaii
Interests: Reading, coloring, classical violin, long-distance running, figure skating​​​
Research Interests: Health equity and policy

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Institution: University of Wisconsin
Hometown: Brighton, MI
Interests: Spikeball, hiking, climbing, live music, ice cream, burritos 
Research Interests: Health equity and disparities, improving access to surgical care among marginalized communities

Medical School: New York University, Grossman School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington
Hometown: Spokane, WA
Interests:Live music, hiking, flea markets, collecting vinyl, contemporary dance
Research Interests: Clinical outcomes, health equity, endocrine surgery, education

Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: University of Notre Dame
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Interests: Donuts (food in general), hiking/backpacking, any form of workout class
Research Interests: technology in medicine, bio/device design, health disparities, impact of environment on human health

Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Hometown: Lake Forest, CA
Interests: Rock climbing, crochet, hiking, camping, house plants, pugs
Research Interests: Health services research, including colorectal cancer screening and outcomes, LGBT health disparities
 

Medical School: University of California, San Francisco 
Undergraduate Institution: California State University, Fresno
Hometown: Clovis, CA
Interests: Fútbol, Art/galleries, Live music, Skateboarding, Ice cream, Health equity 
Research Interests: Health equity, optimizing access to surgery and improving surgical outcomes for marginalized communities, improving surgical education/culture
 

Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Undergraduate Institution: Georgia Tech
Hometown: Houston, TX
Interests: dancing, lifting, sailing, cliff jumping, sports, sushi, crypto
Research Interests: machine perfusion of transplant organs, drone delivery of organs, medical devices, immunotherapy

Medical School: University of Southern California
Undergraduate Institution: Boston College
Hometown: Edison, NJ
Interests: Making music, time with family, cooking, hiking, soccer, waving hello to dogs on the street
Research Interests: Health services and outcomes research, thoracic surgical oncology, medical/surgical education

Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate: UC Berkeley
Hometown: Eureka, California
Interests: spending time with my family, long runs, going to the beach, traveling, reading
Research: Intestinal failure, multivisceral transplantation, transplant immunology

Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Undergraduate Institution: University of Southern California
Hometown: La Canada Flintridge
Interests: scuba diving, wildlife photography, backpacking/traveling, skiing, tennis
Research Interests: subclinical significance of circulating tumor cells; racial disparities in oncology, at the population and molecular levels
 

Medical School: UCSF
Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley
Hometown: Sonoma, CA
Interests: Data science, running, lifting, skiing
Research: Transplant/oncology, translational/clinical informatics, precision medicine

Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Interests: Coffee, Running, Literature
Research: Virology, Vaccine development, Oncolytics

Medical School: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: University of Iowa
Hometown: Estherville, IA
Interests: Cycling, traveling, cooking, meditation/yoga and surgical oncology
Research: Oncology - Sarcoma Metabolism

Medical School:  University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Institution:  Brown University Hometown:  Miami, FL
Interests:  Latinx health, POCUS, surgical critical care, hiking and baking

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Institution: Rice University
Hometown: Pflugerville, TX
Interests: Health equity/justice, global surgery, reading, creating the perfect playlist, being outside
Research: Health equity in surgery

Medical School: UCSF
Undergraduate Institution: Yale University
Hometown: Temecula, CA
Interests: Scuba diving, vinyl collecting, hiking, ice cream
Research: Global surgery, trauma, health equity (specifically access to surgery and surgical outcomes)

Medical School: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Hometown: Lake Elmo, MN
Interests: Trying new restaurants, being outdoors, spending time with my family, surgical oncology
Research: Basic science or translational research related to oncology with a preference to work with proteins

Medical School:  Stanford Medical School/Business School
Undergraduate Institution:  Harvard University
Hometown:  St. Louis, MO
Interests:  Music, Basketball, Frisbee, Organizational Design
Research:  Hospital Administration

Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: Vanderbilt University
Hometown: St. Louis, MO / Chicago, IL
Interests: Running, Scuba Diving, Global Health, Trauma Surgery
Research: Global Surgery

Medical School: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Los Angeles 
Hometown: Burbank, CA
Interests: Cycling, hiking, molecular biology, clinical outcomes
Research: Cardiovascular diseases

Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley
Hometown: San Jose, CA
Interests: enhancing resident autonomy, live music, trivia, playing with my co-resident's pets
Research: Surgical education

Medical School: Keck School of Medicine of USCl
Undergraduate Institution: Macalester Collegee
Hometown: Glendale, CA
Interests: Acute Care Surgery, professional sports (Go Rams!), BBQing
Research: Health services research focusing on emergency surgery in geriatric patients.

Medical School: Mount Sinai
Undergraduate Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine medical school
Hometown: San Diego
Interests: Transplant surgery; translational research; cycling; camping
Research: Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Circulating Tumor Cells, Liquid Biopsy

Medical School: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Undergraduate Institution: Boston College
Hometown: Acton, MA
Interests: Minimally Invasive Surgery, Boston Sports, Golf, Beach
Research: Advanced Endoscopy, Surgical Outcomes, Bariatric Surgery, Hernia

Medical School:  UC San Francisco
Undergraduate Institution:  Harvard Hometown:  Granite Bay, CA
Interests:  Global health, trauma surgery, NBA basketball
Research:  Surgical care in sub-Saharan Africa

Medical School: USC Keck School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: Northern Arizona University
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Interests: Cardiac Surgery, Beach/Outdoors, Basketball/Sports
Research: Translational neurocardiology
Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tufts Medical Center

Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Undergraduate Institution: UCLA
Hometown: Los Angeles, Yerevan, Armenia
Interests: Colorectal Surgery, healthcare administration, jazz piano,
Research: Basic science translational oncology research

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Hometown: Laguna Beach, CA
Interests: Camping, hiking, running, my family! 
Research: Sarcoma, breast cancer, bioinformatics
Fellowship: Breast Surgical Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: University of Texas - Pan American
Hometown: Laredo, TX
Interests: Basketball, weightlifting, going to the beach, and surgical oncology
Research: Pancreatic cancer
Fellowship: Memorial Sloan Kettering, Complex General Surgical Oncology

Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin
Undergraduate Institution: Arizona State University
Hometown: Sioux Falls, SD
Interests: Medical device design, critical care technology, live music, basketball
Research: Medical device design, neurotrauma
Fellowship: Matched to minimally invasive Surgery for 24/25 at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin
Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Interests: Golf, Traveling, Surgical Education, Endocrine Surgery
Research: Surgical Education
Fellowship: NYU, Endocrine Surgery

Medical School:  New York University
Undergraduate Institution:  Washington University in St. Louis
Hometown:  Portland, OR
Interests:  Hiking, Health Services Research, Beach time, Eating delicious food with co-residents
Research: Understanding how standardization of surgical care can prevent disparities
Fellowship: Advanced GI/Minimally Invasive Surgery at Oregon Health and Sciences University

Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: UCLA
Hometown: Sunnyvale, CA
Interests: Live music, eating out, surgical oncology
Research: Surgical oncology
Fellowship: Complex general surgical oncology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 

Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: Macalester College
Hometown: Deephaven, MN
Interests: Implementation science, YouTube yoga, camping, propagating my succulents
Research: Disparities in lung cancer screening

Medical School: Georgetown University
Undergraduate Institution: Princeton University
Hometown: Marietta, GA
Interests: Playing saxophone and drums, Atlanta sports, Cardiothoracic surgery

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Institution: University of Oxford
Hometown: Lawrenceville, NJ
Interests: Health Justice, Structural Violence, Workforce Diversity, Surfing
Research: Thoracic Trauma

Medical School:  Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution:  Washington University in St. Louis
Hometown:  Leamington, Ontario, Canada
Interests:  Traveling/backpacking, baking, quality improvement research, undecided career interests
Research:  Quality improvement

Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: Boston College
Hometown: Rochester, NY
Interests: Skiing, sailing, perfecting my mom’s Korean food recipes, surgical oncology
Research: outcomes research in cardiac surgery and tumor immunology
 

Medical School: University of Alabama School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: North Carolina State University
Hometown: Birmingham, AL
Interests: 
Research: Surgical oncology and basic: CD8 T cell response to and differentiation in solid tumors

Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Undergraduate Institution: Northwestern University
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Interests: Snowboarding, hiking, camping, tennis
Research: Health services, clinical research informatics, data-driven research, transplant

Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley
Hometown: Pleasanton, CA
Interests: Basketball, biking, surgical oncology, coffee
Research: Pancreatic cancer

Medical School:  University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Undergraduate Institution:  Duke University
Hometown:  Knoxville, TN
Interests:  Public Health & Global Surgery, swimming/biking
 

Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: University of Denver
Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO
Interests: Addressing disparities in healthcare through policy, colorectal surgery, surgical oncology, exploring new neighborhoods!
Research: Exploring the health impact of out-of-pocket costs

Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Hometown: Corona, CA
Interests: Hiking, classical piano, endocrine surgery, minimally invasive surgery
Research: Healthcare outcomes, clinical trials

Medical School:  Thomas Jefferson University
Undergraduate Institution:  Temple University
Hometown:  Philadelphia
Interests:  Trauma and acute care surgery, experiencing as much of Los Angeles as is possible, trying to learn golf
Research:  The semantics of cancer, philosophy of medicine 

Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Undergraduate Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Interests: Soccer, skiing, health systems design, my dog

Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Undergraduate Institution: UCLA
Hometown: San Jose, CA
Interests: Ice Hockey, Global Health, Trauma/Critical Care, Dogs
Research: MPH and Global Surgery Project(s)