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New York Medical College at Metropolitan Hospital Center

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Welcome to the

General Surgery Residency Training Program

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Alumni

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2024

George Alyateem, MD

Specialty: Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Surgical Specialists

Hickory, NC

Donovan Hui, MD

Specialty: Minimally Invasive Surgery

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Karen Placeres – Rodriguez, MD

Forest Hills Hospital, NY

Northwell Health 

Jared Theriot, MD

Specialty: Plastic Surgery

Summa Health/Cleveland Clinic, Medina, OH

 

 

2023

Michelle Chung, DO, MPH, MS

Washington DC

Zihan Dong, MD 

Specialty: MIS/Bariactric Surgery Fellowship Advocate

Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois

Eric Maldonado, MD

Specialty: Vascular Surgery Fellow

Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University

Jose Reyes, MD

Specialty: Abdominal Transplant and HPB Surgery Fellowship
Cedar-Sinai Medical Center

2022

Shan Huang, MD

Specialty: Burn Critical Care Fellowship

Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY

Jillian Taguchi

Specialty: General Surgery

James J Peters Veterans Affair Medical Center, Bronx, NY

Giovanni Ramos

General Surgery, Private Practice, Puerto Rico.

2021

 

Dimitra Lotakis, MD

Specialty: Pediatric Surgery

Riley Hospital for Children

 

Specialty: Pediatric Surgery Critical Care

Fellowship: University of Michigan Health

Luis Rivera Sanchez, MD

Fellowship: Temple University Health System

Kaspar Trocha, MD

Specialty: Vascular Fellowship Rutgers Hospital

Fellowship: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

2020 

Michelle Abghari, MD

Specialty: Breast Surgery

Fellowship: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

David Phillibert, MD

Specialty: Minimally Invasive Surgery

Fellowship: Jackson Memorial Health System, Miami, Florida

Cristian D. Valenzuela, MD

Specialty: Complex General Surgical Oncology

Fellowship: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, North Carolina

 

2019

Ana Machado Hopkins, MD

Specialty: Colorectal Surgery

Fellowship: Colon and Rectal Clinic at Orlando Health, Florida

Joseph Nabil Riad, MD

Specialty: Colorectal Surgery

Fellowship: Mount Carmel Health, Columbus, Ohio

Fellowship: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Cynthia Payne, MD

Position: Rural General Surgery

Hospital: Ascension St. Joseph's Hospital, Central Michigan University

2018

Tina Joseph, MD

Position: Private Surgical Practice

Location: Long Island, New York

Avik Karmaker, MD

Specialty: Minimally Invasive Surgery

Fellowship: Jackson South Medical Center, Florida

Monty Littlejohn, MD

Specialty: Critical Care Surgery

Fellowship: Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, New Jersey

2017

Warqaa Akram, MD

Specialty: Colorectal Surgery

Fellowship: St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Michigan

Juan Carlos Geronimo, MD

Specialty: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Fellowship: Albany Medical Center, New York

Amit Khithani, MD

Specialty: Complex General Surgical Oncology; Hepatobiliary Surgery

Fellowship: City of Hope National Medical Center, California (CGSO)

Fellowship: Cleveland Clinic, Ohio (HPB)

2016

Ibrahim Azer, MD

Specialty: Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS)

Fellowship: Richmond University Medical Center, New York

Luis Cerda, MD

Specialty: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Fellowship: Montefiore Medical Center, New York

Todd Jones, MD

Position: Faculty Surgeon

Hospital: Good Shepherd Medical Center, Oregon

2015

Carlos Rivera, MD

Specialty: Vascular Surgery

Fellowship: Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, New Jersey

Ranjith Krishnankutty, MD

Specialty: Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS)

Fellowship: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania

Nadeem Quazi, MD

Specialty: Laparoscopic Surgery

Fellowship: Westchester Medical Center, New York

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