Meet Our Residents
The Johns Hopkins Department of Surgery residency program is designed to prepare trainees to become academic surgical leaders dedicated to patient-centered care and cutting edge innovations in research. The program offers unparalleled surgical training and mentorship, coupled with a curriculum that combines clinical, technical, didactic and scientific components.
Meet our current group of residents:
- Postgraduate Research
- Postgraduate Year Five (PGY-5)
- Postgraduate Year Four (PGY-4)
- Postgraduate Year Three (PGY-3)
- Postgraduate Year Two (PGY-2)
- Postgraduate Year One (PGY-1)
Residency Program
Learn more about our application process, schedule and curriculum.
Fellowship Opportunities
Read about our advanced fellowship opportunities.
Postgraduate Year Five (PGY-5)
Muhammad Abdullah Arain
Hometown: Karachi, Pakistan
Medical School: Aga Khan University
Surgical Interest: Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Interest: CT Surgery in low resource settings
Lawrence Brown
Medical School: Meharry Medical College
Sophia Diaz
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Daniel L. Eisenson
Medical School: Brown University
Solomon Levin
Medical School: Weill Cornell School of Medicine
Katherine “Katie” McDermott
Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine
Shannon Radomski
Hometown: Moorestown, New Jersey
Medical School: Georgetown University
Surgical Interest: Transplant
Research Interest: Organoid models of metastatic gastrointestinal cancers, access to fertility preservation benefits for surgical trainees
Postgraduate Year Four (PGY-4)
Benjamin Bigelow
Hometown: Grass Valley, California
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Acute care surgery, surgical critical care
Research Interest: Disparities in an access to care, pre-hospital trauma care
Michelle Carvajal Villalba
Hometown: Quito, Ecuador
Medical School: Pontificia University
Surgical Interest: Cardiothoracic surgery
Ifeoluwa Shoyombo
Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria
Medical School: University of Texas at Austin Dell
Surgical Interest: Acute care surgery/trauma
Research Interest: Global surgery; functional recovery from trauma
Bryan Szeglin
Hometown: Blue Point, New York
Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Surgical interest: Surgical oncology
Research Interest: Rectal cancer chemoresistance mechanisms and ex vivo prognostication assays
Sumeyye Yilmaz
Hometown: Trabzon, Turkey
Medical School: Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Liver transplantation
Research Interest: Machine perfusion, living donor liver transplantation, increasing organ donation
Postgraduate Year Three (PGY-3)
Elizabeth Horne
Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine
Ivy Mannoh
Hometown: Accra, Ghana
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Thoracic surgery
Research Interest: Health equity and global surgery
Gregory McKay
Hometown: Medway, Massachusetts
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Acute Care Surgery / Trauma
Research Interest: Biomedical optics, non-invasive blood cell imaging, device design
Menaka Reddy
Hometown: Fayetteville, Georgia
Medical School: Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Thoracic surgery, surgical oncology
Research Interest: Public health, outcomes research, health disparities
Deborah Tsao
Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine
James (Joey) Whitbread Jr.
Hometown: Colville, Washington
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Cardiothoracic surgery
Research Interest: End-stage heart failure/cardiac transplantation
Midori White
Hometown: Tacoma, Washington
Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Transplant, vascular
Research Interest: CRISPR-Cas9 to disrupt gene expression in cell lines
Postgraduate Year Two (PGY-2)
Khaoula Ben Haj Frej
Medical School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Surgical oncology/HPB
Research Interest: Basic science, immunology, medical education
Grace Bloomfield
Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Transplant, Thoracic, HPB/Surgical Oncology
Research Interest: Xenotransplantation; Health Equity in Surgery
Sardar Shahmir Chauhan
Medical School: Aga Khan University Medical College
Surgical Interest: CT surgery, surgical oncology
Research Interest: Pancreatic surgical outcomes research
Charbel Chidiac
Medical School: American University of Beirut
Wyatt Dougherty
Reed Jenkins
Hometown: Brewster, Massachusetts
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Transplant Surgery
Research Interest: Liver transplantation outcomes, history of surgery
Shivalika Khanduja
Hometown: Delhi, India
Medical School: Lady Hardinge Medical College
Surgical Interest: Cardiothoracic Surgery, Breast Surgery, and Trauma & Acute Care Surgery
Research Interest: Surgical Outcome Research, Global Surgery, and Surgical Education
Laura Mafla
Hometown: Houston, Texas
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Facial reconstructive surgery
Research Interest: Surgical wound healing in setting of staged surgeries, bone regeneration of max volume bone loss in facial surgery
Jyi Cheng Ng
Hometown: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Medical School: University of Putra Malaysia
Surgical Interest: Colorectal Surgery, Minimally Invasive Approaches
Research Interest: Surgical Outcomes, Rectal Cancer
Dianela Perdomo
Hometown: Miami, Florida
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Cardiothoracic surgery, heart/lung transplantation, surgical oncology
Research Interest: Immunology, surgical outcomes, history of surgery
Mansour Riachi
Medical School: American University of Beirut
Christina Sierra Rodriguez
Hometown: Lakeland, Florida
Medical School: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Surgical Interest: Trauma and Acute Care
Research Interest: Medical Education, Health Equity
Fatemeh Shojaeian
Hometown: Tehran, Iran
Medical School: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Surgical Interest: Surgical Oncology
Research Interest: Bioelectronics and 3D Modelling in Cancer Study, Surgical Outcome
Kyra Urquhart-Foster
Hometown: Suwanee, Georgia
Medical School: Medical College of Georgia
Surgical Interest: Surgical Oncology
Research Interest: Clinical outcomes, surgical education
Postgraduate Year One (PGY-1)
Mohammad Al-Raymoony
Kareem Aly
Ahmet (Yusuf) Ciftci
Michael Consul
Jason Guo
Kyra Halbert-Elliott
Carl Kassab
Grant Killian
Mario O'Connor Cordova
Nour Basem Kamel Odeh
Daniel Ospina Delgado
Daniel Paku
Agustina Pontecorvo
Max Shteiman
Kadiatou Traore
Thomas Truong
Tongbo (Tom) Wang
Research Residents
Valentine Sampson Alia
Hometown: Houston, Texas
Medical School: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Emergency General Surgery
Research Interest: Trends in physician supply and demand, Healthcare disparities
Radek Buss
Hometown: Prague, Czech Republic
Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin
Surgical Interest: Pediatric surgery
Research Interest: Quality improvement and surgical outcomes research
Natasha Houshmand
Hometown: Dallas, Texas
Medical School: University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Surgical Interest: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Research Interest: Firearm injury prevention, public health approaches to trauma care
Sarah Jabour
Medical School: University of Michigan
Sarah Pisano
Hometown: Timonium, Maryland
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Research Interest: Outcomes research
Kyla Rakoczy
Hometown: Boca Raton, Florida
Medical School: University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Thoracic; Endocrine; Trauma/Critical Care
Research Interest: Surgical Education
Dylan Rust
Hometown: Green River, Wyoming
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Surgical Interest: Transplant, surgical oncology
Research Interest: Outcomes research, transplant oncology
Alexander Schulick
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland
Medical School: University of Colorado School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: HPB surgery; transplant and surgical oncology
Research Interest: Biomarkers in pancreatic cancer, liver transplantation coagulopathy
Jamie Schwartz
Latoya Stewart
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Surgical Interest: Global surgery; pediatric surgery
Research Interest: Clinical outcomes; biomedical informatics; global health
Nolan Winicki
Hometown: Oceanside, California
Medical School: University of California – Riverside School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Surgical oncology, cardiothoracic surgery
Research Interest: Peritoneal surface malignancy, pulmonary arterial hypertension, cardiac valvular disease, and applying biomedical engineering to surgery
