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.
Our Residents
Postgraduate Year Five (PGY-5)
Mohammad Aref
Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana
Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Critical care, cardiothoracic
Research Interest: Effects of systemic disease on vascular reactivity
Mackenzie A. Eagleson
Hometown: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Transplant surgery
Research Interest: Machine learning, computer vision, organ allocation equity and policy
Dane Paneitz
Hometown: Sullivan, Missouri
Medical School: University of Missouri School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Adult and congenital cardiac surgery
Research Interest: Cardiac surgery outcomes, nutrition in congenital heart disease, surgical bioethics
Matthew Price
Hometown: Salt Lake City, Utah
Medical School: University of Utah School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Surgical Oncology, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Acute Care Surgery
Research Interest: Access to surgical care and surgical systems, surgical education
Jessica M. Ruck
Hometown: Greenwich, Connecticut
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Thoracic surgery
Research Interest: Neurocognitive outcomes in frail liver transplant patients, lung transplant outcomes
Li Ting (Olivia) Tan
Medical School: Newcastle University
Stefano Tassinari
Hometown: Caracas, Venezuela
Medical School: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
Surgical Interest: Colorectal surgery
Research Interest: surgical education, clinical outcomes, colorectal cancer in younger populations
Postgraduate Year Four (PGY-4)
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 Three (PGY-3)
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
Radek Buss
Hometown: Prague, Czech Republic
Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin
Surgical Interest: Pediatric surgery
Research Interest: Quality improvement and surgical outcomes research
Ivy Mannoh
Hometown: Accra, Ghana
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Thoracic surgery
Research Interest: Health equity and global surgery
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
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 Two (PGY-2)
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
Nijmeh Alsaadi
Hometown: Jenin, Palestine
Medical School: TheUniversity of Jordan School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Trauma Surgery, Critical Care Surgery, Emergency General Surgery, and Global Surgery
Research Interest: Immunothrombosis following hemorrhagic shock and traumatic injury, DEI in Surgery, Global Surgery
Luis Daniel Castellanos
Hometown: Maracaibo, Venezuela
Medical School: Universidad del Zulia Escuela de Medicina
Surgical Interest: Vascular Surgery, Trauma Surgery, Colorectal Surgery
Research Interest: Global health, access to surgery in Latin America, surgical education
Swathikan Chidambaram
Medical School: Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine
Elizabeth Horne
Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine
Hanna Kakish
Hometown: As-Salt, Jordan
Medical School: Jordan University of Science and Technology
Surgical Interest: Surgical Oncology
Research Interest: Surgical outcomes, Cancer treatment disparities
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
Ghulam Mustafa Qurashi
Hometown: Hounslow, London, UK
Medical School: University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
Surgical Interest: General Surgery
Research Interest: Medical Ethics
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
Paola Vargas
Hometown: Bogota, Colombia
Medical School: Universidad Militar Nueva Granada Facultad de Medicina
Surgical Interest: Transplant / Pediatric Surgery
Research Interest: Clinical outcomes after liver transplantation, particularly interested in exploring underutilized strategies in the US to optimize organ utilization and access to transplantation.
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
Marinos Zachiotis
Hometown: Athens, Greece
Medical School: University of Patras School of Health Sciences
Surgical Interest: Liver Transplantation
Research Interest: Liver Transplantation, International Patient Registries
Postgraduate Year One (PGY-1)
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
Madeline Foo
Hometown: Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University
Surgical Interest: Interventional Radiology
Research Interest: Vascular diseases and vascular malformations
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
Khaoula Ben Haj Frej
Medical School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Surgical oncology/HPB
Research Interest: Basic science, immunology, medical 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
Reena Suresh
Hometown: Colchester, England
Medical School: University of Birmingham Medical School
Surgical Interest: Surgical Oncology
Research Interest: Surgical Oncology
Chi Trinh
Hometown: Hanoi, Vietnam
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Interventional Radiology
Research Interest: Interventional Oncology
Kyra Urquhart-Foster
Hometown: Suwanee, Georgia
Medical School: Medical College of Georgia
Surgical Interest: Surgical Oncology
Research Interest: Clinical outcomes, surgical education
Sydney Wade
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Interventional Radiology
Research Interest: IR in Women's Health, Global IR
Research Residents
Michelle Carvajal Villalba
Hometown: Quito, Ecuador
Medical School: Pontificia University
Surgical Interest: Cardiothoracic surgery
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
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
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
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
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
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