New Faculty

Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; master of science in clinical research, Indiana University; general surgery residency and cardiac surgery research fellowship, Indiana University; thoracic surgery residency, Emory University, Atlanta; congenital heart surgery fellowship, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles/University of Southern California, Los Angeles; clinical instructor, pediatrics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; United States Navy Surface Warfare Officer (operations, engineering and administration)

Clinical interests: All facets of congenital heart surgery

Research interests: Clinical outcomes and registry database research in infants and young children undergoing cardiac surgery; partnership building and delivery of cardiothoracic surgical services to low- and middle-income countries

Training and experience: Doctor of science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston; master of public health, Columbia University, New York

Research interests: Cancer epidemiology, risk prediction, screening/early detection; chemoprevention of major cancers, particularly gastrointestinal malignancies

Training and experience: Medical and doctoral degree, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; master of engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; general surgery residency and surgical critical care fellowship, Washington University

Clinical interests: General surgery, trauma and critical care

Research interests: Surgical technology, informatics, automation

Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Cincinnati; plastic and reconstructive surgery residency, University of California, San Francisco; hand surgery and microsurgery fellowship, The Buncke Clinic, San Francisco; craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgery fellowship, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York

Clinical interests: Facial trauma, post-traumatic facial reconstruction, pediatric plastic surgery, cleft lip and palate, craniofacial microsurgery, nose reconstruction, ear reconstruction, orthognathic surgery

Training and experience: Doctor of science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston; master of public health, Saint Louis University School of Public Health, St. Louis; postdoctoral fellow, Cancer Health Disparities Training Program (T32), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Research interests: Applied social epidemiology; reducing cancer health disparities by informing organizational and policy change; relationships between socioeconomic status, stress and cancer risk factors in underserved communities

Training and experience: Doctor of osteopathic medicine, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; internship and residency, East Carolina University, Vidant Medical Center; surgical critical care fellowship and acute care surgery fellowship, Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center

Clinical interests: Instructor for the Air Force Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills(C-STARS) program; management of complex wounds and necrotizing soft tissue infections

Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Illinois, Urbana; master of science in aeronautical and astronautical engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana; master of clinical research, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Ore.; general surgery residency, University of Hawaii, Honolulu; hepatobiliary and pancreas surgery fellowship, Portland Providence Medical Center, Portland, Ore.

Clinical interests: Liver, pancreas and biliary diseases, minimally invasive and robotic surgery

Research interests: Image-guided surgery, ablation therapies, surgical technologies and innovation

Training and experience: Doctoral degree and master’s in public health, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; postdoctoral education, Division of Public Health Sciences, Washington University

Research interests: Caregiving and treatment seeking for infectious and chronic diseases in Africa (most specifically, Zambia) and the United States. Special interest in children’s experiences of and responses to illness, medicine and health programming

Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor; master of science in clinical research and translational medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.; general surgery internship, postdoctoral research fellowship and general surgery residency, Temple University Hospital; vascular surgery fellowship, Washington University

Clinical interests: All aspects of vascular surgery with a special focus on limb salvage and thoracic outlet syndrome

Research interests: Cost-effective improvements of surgical outcomes

Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis; general surgery internship, Medical College of Wisconsin; urology residency, Medical College of Wisconsin; male infertility and andrology fellowship, Medical College of Wisconsin

Clinical interests: Male infertility and andrology, men’s health, erectile dysfunction and Peyronie’s disease, general urology; medical and surgical treatment of erectile dysfunction; microsurgical techniques for vasectomy reversal, varicocele repair and testicular sperm retrieval

Training and experience: Medical degree, The Aga Khan University, Pakistan; master of public health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health; general surgery internship and residency, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, R.I.; clinical fellowship in hepatobiliary-pancreatic surgery, Washington University; clinical fellowship in abdominal transplant surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas; assistant clinical professor of surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Clinical interests: Adult and pediatric liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation; living donor liver and kidney transplantation; laparoscopic and robotic surgery of the liver, pancreas and bile ducts

Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester; general surgery internship and urology residency, University of Connecticut, Farmington; trauma and reconstruction fellowship, University of California, San Francisco

Clinical interests: Trauma and reconstructive urology, male incontinence, urethral stricture disease, penile and scrotal reconstruction, genitourinary trauma, ureteral strictures and rectourethral fistula

Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston; vascular surgery residency, Washington University

Clinical interests: General vascular surgery, complex open and endovascular aortic reconstructions for aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection

Research interests: Rapid management and transfer of acute aortic syndromes through the pre-hospital and hospital environments; management of primary aortic and aortic graft infections

Training and experience: Medical degree, Ross University School of Medicine, Portsmouth, Dominica; general surgery residency, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland

Clinical interests: General and minimally invasive surgery including laparoscopic and robotic surgery

Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Va.; general surgery residency and trauma/surgical critical care fellowship, University of Colorado, Denver; trauma surgery research fellowship, National Institutes of Health (NIH); U.S. Navy, four deployments, trauma/combat casualty care translational research

Clinical interests: Resuscitation, transfusion, trauma, critical care, emergent general surgery

Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Missouri-Kansas City; general surgery residency, Saint Louis University School of Medicine; surgical critical care fellowship, Washington University

Clinical interests: Laparoscopy, emergency general surgery, trauma, care for veterans

Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; general surgery residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; general surgery research fellowship, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; pediatric surgery fellowship, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Clinical interests: Fetal consultation and surgery, including EXIT delivery and in utero interventions; surgical treatment of congenital diaphragmatic hernia, congenital lung lesions (CPAM/BPS), intestinal atresias, gastroschisis, omphalocele; minimally invasive surgery, including hernia repair and surgical treatment of reflux; general pediatric surgery

Research interests: Fetal biology and immunology; in utero cellular therapies

Training and experience: Doctoral degree, cardiovascular pathology and allograft vasculopathy, University of British Columbia; postdoctoral fellowship in metabolic and epigenetic regulation of angiogenesis/lymphangiogenesis, VIB/KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, Leuven, Belgium

Research interests: Role of lymphatic vessels in solid allograft rejection, with specific emphasis on understanding key metabolic and epigenetic regulatory pathways that regulate lymphatic function and immunomodulatory capabilities; role of lymphatics in transplant biology; development of novel therapeutics to improve graft outcome and prevent rejection

Training and Experience: Medical degree, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan; internal medicine residency, District Headquarters Hospital, Faisalabad, Pakistan; general surgery observership, Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati; general surgery residency, Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, Bronx, New York, and Mount Carmel Health, Columbus, Ohio; colon rectal surgery fellowship, Grant Medical Center, Columbus

Clinical Interests: General and colorectal surgery