We’ve assembled a leading-edge faculty team who define the spirit of collaboration within our general surgery residency program.
Our faculty champions and teaches the latest in surgical techniques and technology. Throughout all five years of your residency, faculty members will take the time to answer your questions, listen to your ideas, and interact with humankindness so that you will develop a holistic skill set, from procedures to bedside manner.
Program Administration
Faculty Physicians
- Charles Hu, MD - Chief of Trauma / Acute Care Surgery / Critical Care Rotation Director
- Nicholas Thiessen, MD - Trauma / Critical Care
- Daniel Cucher, MD - Trauma / Critical Care
- Jessica Sloan, MD - Trauma / Critical Care
- Vafa Ghaemmaghami, MD - Trauma / Critical Care
- Adil Lokhandwala, MD - Trauma / Critical Care
- John Watt, MD - Trauma / Critical Care
- Thomas Wertin, MD - Trauma Medical Director MGMC
- Amanda Marsh, MD Acute Care Surgery
- John Davis, MD - Breast Surgery Rotation Director
- Kevin Foster, MD - Burn Surgery
- Kevin Brady, MD - Cardiac Rotation Director
- Kenneth Aston, MD - Cardiac Surgery
- Ronald Gagliano, MD - Department Chair, Colon and Rectal Surgery
- Clarence E Clark, III, MD - Colon and Rectal Surgery
- Adatee Okonkwo, MD - Colon and Rectal Surgery
- Bianca Vazquez, MD - Endocrine Surgery
- Wael Youssef, MD - Advanced Endoscopy
- James Cooper, MD - General Surgery
- Marko Laitinen, MD - General Surgery
- James Mankin, MD - General Surgery
- Andrew Kinahan, MD General Surgery
- Shawn Stevenson, DO - MIS / Bariatric Rotation Director
- Gregory Robertson, MD - Minimally Invasive Surgery/Bariatrics
- Van Leavitt, MD - Minimally Invasive Surgery/Bariatrics
- Jamie Harris, MD - Pediatric Surgery Rotation Director
- Mark Molitor, MD - Pediatric Surgery
- Joshua Nelson, MD - Plastic Surgery Rotation Director
- Joshua Kelley, MD
Research
- Melissa Kovacs, PhD - Statistician
- Mark Runfola, MD - Surgical Oncology
- Sarah Counts, DO - Thoracic Rotation Director
- Ashwini Arjuna, MD - Pulmonary Transplant Rotation Director
- John Tedesco, MD - General Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant Surgery
- Albert Harrison, MD - Vascular Rotation Director
- Brett Siegrist, MD - Vascular Surgery
Surgical Advanced Practice Providers
- Krista Autuori, MPA
- Jennifer Bybee, CRNP
- Stacy Cantwell, CRNP
- Esther Fletcher, MPA
- Tegan Gamblin, MPA
- Saralyn Heddleston, CRNP
- Andrea Juliette, DRNP
- Jennifer McDaniel, DRNP
- Michelle McGee, CRNP
- James Ramsey, CRNP
- Janice Rorabeck, DRNP
- Rachel Salcedo, CRNP
- Britney Thompson, MPA - Physician Assistant Lead
- Lori Troxxel, MPA
- Angela Waz, CRNP
- Stacey Webber, CRNP
