Meet the Residents

Medical School: Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, San Diego
Hometown: Aliso Viejo, California
Interests: Running, backpacking, rock climbing, skiing, photography, cooking
Research Interests: Minimally invasive surgery, foregut, surgical oncology, medical device development

Medical School: Keck School of Medicine of USC
Undergraduate Institution: Duke University 
Hometown: Walnut Creek, California
Interests: Skiing, live sports/music, reading, traveling
Research Interests: Surgical oncology, health equity, public health

Medical School: University of California, Irvine
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Hometown: Kailua, Hawai'i
Interests: Surfing, snowboarding, hiking, and a perfect cup of coffee
Research Interests: Transplant surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, surgical device development, surgical education

Medical School: Medical College of Georgia 
Undergraduate Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology
Hometown: Beirut, Lebanon 
Interests: Photography, snowboarding, kite surfing, padel, traveling, surgical history 
Research Interests: Surgical Oncology, Colorectal Surgery, Surgical innovation and device development 

Medical School: Harvard Medical School 
Undergraduate Institution: University of Rochester
Hometown: Szczecin, Poland
Interests: Attending Arsenal FC Games, Collecting Arsenal FC Shirts and Signed Memorabilia, Premier League Football, Foreign Languages, Travelling, EDM Music, 20th Century History 
Research Interests: Optimization of Organ Allocation in Transplant Surgery, Disparities in Access to Transplant Surgery

Medical School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
Hometown: Montclair, New Jersey
Interests: Running, Exploring Nature, Watching Anime, and Going to Concerts!
Research Interests: Liver Transplant and Nutrition

Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, San Diego
Hometown: Saratoga, California
Interests: Basketball, lifting, fishing, reading
Research Interests: Cardiothoracic surgery, trauma surgery, immunology

Medical School: Keck School of Medicine of USC
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Los Angeles 
Hometown: Fullerton, California
Interests:  Reading, Pilates, traveling and trying new foods, and spending time with family and friends
Research Interests: Thoracic surgery, surgical outcomes research, public health/health equity outcomes research

Medical School: Gesiel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Undergraduate Institution: Princeton University
Hometown: London, England
Interests: Soccer, running, trying new food, reading, enjoying the beach!
Research Interests: Healthcare disparities, cancer screening, predictive modeling

Medical School: University of Arizona College of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: Arizona State University 
Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona
Interests: Baking, cooking, reading, taking photos of my dog
Research Interests: Transplant surgery, space medicine, public health

Medical School: University of Wisconsin of Medicine and Public Health 
Undergraduate Institution: Harvey Mudd College 
Hometown: Plymouth, Minnesota
Interests: Cardiac surgery, congenital cardiac diseases, pickleball, golf course architecture, exotic pets 
Research Interests: Functional genomics, high-throughput screens, single-cell sequencing, synthetic biology, personalized genomics

Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine 
Undergraduate Institution: Johns Hopkins University 
Hometown: Carmel, Indiana
Interests: Surfing, opera, traveling, archaeology
Research Interests: Cardiothoracic surgery, Transplant, Humanitarian response, Climate and Surgery

Medical School: University of California, San Diego School of Medicine 
Undergraduate Institution: Northwestern University 
Hometown: Pleasanton, California
Interests: Running, painting, cat-owning/anything animal related, light-hearted fiction
Research Interests: Pediatric surgery, machine learning applications in healthcare, border health and health equity

Medical School: University of Colorado School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: Emory University
Hometown: Chico, California
Interests: Pilates, hiking, going to the ballet or symphony, spending time with family
Research Interests: Surgical oncology, clinical outcomes, surgical education 

Medical School: University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: University of Michigan 
Hometown: Ojai, California 
Interests: Reading my kindle on the beach, sporting events, spike ball, beach volleyball, running, game nights, breweries, traveling, cooking
Research Interests: Trauma, global surgery, surgical education 

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Hometown: El Dorado Hills, CA
Interests: Snowboarding, painting, running, vintage radio shows
Research Interests: Acute care surgery, trauma surgery, high value surgical care

Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University
Hometown: Oxnard, California 
Interests: Listening to podcasts, reading short stories, spending time with loved ones, showing people pictures of my cats
Research Interests: Global surgery, health equity 

Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Hometown: Lake Forest, CA
Interests: Rock climbing, crochet, hiking, camping, house plants, pugs
Research Interests: Health services research, including colorectal cancer screening and outcomes, LGBT health disparities

Medical School: University of California, San Francisco 
Undergraduate Institution: California State University, Fresno
Hometown: Clovis, CA
Interests: Fútbol, Art/galleries, Live music, Skateboarding, Ice cream, Health equity 
Research Interests: Health equity, optimizing access to surgery and improving surgical outcomes for marginalized communities, improving surgical education/culture

Medical School: University of Alabama School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: North Carolina State University
Hometown: Birmingham, AL
Interests: 
Research: Surgical oncology and basic: CD8 T cell response to and differentiation in solid tumors

Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Undergraduate Institution: Northwestern University
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Interests: Snowboarding, hiking, camping, tennis
Research: Health services, clinical research informatics, data-driven research, transplant

Medical School: University of California, San Francisco
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Hometown: Fowler, CA
Interests: Tennis, reading, painting, hiking with Maverick, traveling, trying new restaurants
Research Interests: Health disparities research, surgical education, improving access to surgical care for marginalized communities 

Medical School: Duke University
Undergraduate Institution: Wofford College
Hometown: Plymouth, Minnesota
Interests: Music, cooking (and, of course, eating!), anything outdoors, reading
Research Interests: Ethics, health equity, religion and medicine, global surgery 

Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Undergraduate Institution: University of Southern California
Hometown: La Canada Flintridge
Interests: scuba diving, wildlife photography, backpacking/traveling, skiing, tennis
Research Interests: subclinical significance of circulating tumor cells; racial disparities in oncology, at the population and molecular levels

Medical School: University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, UFR Simone Veil.  
Hometown: Paris, France  
Interest: music, cooking, eating, traveling  
Research Interests: transplant, health equity 

Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: Boston College
Hometown: Rochester, NY
Interests: Skiing, sailing, perfecting my mom’s Korean food recipes, surgical oncology
Research: outcomes research in cardiac surgery and tumor immunology

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Institution: Rice University
Hometown: Pflugerville, TX
Interests: Health equity/justice, global surgery, reading, creating the perfect playlist, being outside
Research: Health equity in surgery

Medical School:  University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Undergraduate Institution:  Duke University
Hometown:  Knoxville, TN
Interests:  Public Health & Global Surgery, swimming/biking

Medical School: UCSF
Undergraduate Institution: Yale University
Hometown: Temecula, CA
Interests: Scuba diving, vinyl collecting, hiking, ice cream
Research: Global surgery, trauma, health equity (specifically access to surgery and surgical outcomes)

Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Undergraduate Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Interests: Soccer, skiing, health systems design, my dog

Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: Macalester College
Hometown: Deephaven, MN
Interests: Implementation science, YouTube yoga, camping, propagating my succulents
Research: Disparities in lung cancer screening

Medical School: Georgetown University
Undergraduate Institution: Princeton University
Hometown: Marietta, GA
Interests: Playing saxophone and drums, Atlanta sports, Cardiothoracic surgery

Medical School:  Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution:  Washington University in St. Louis
Hometown:  Leamington, Ontario, Canada
Interests:  Traveling/backpacking, baking, quality improvement research, undecided career interests
Research:  Quality improvement

Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley
Hometown: Pleasanton, CA
Interests: Basketball, biking, surgical oncology, coffee
Research: Pancreatic cancer

Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: University of Denver
Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO
Interests: Pediatric surgery, exploring new neighborhoods, cities and restaurants with my family! 
Research: Improving health through policy

Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Hometown: Corona, CA
Interests: Hiking, classical piano, endocrine surgery, minimally invasive surgery
Research: Healthcare outcomes, clinical trials

Medical School:  Thomas Jefferson University
Undergraduate Institution:  Temple University
Hometown:  Philadelphia
Interests:  Trauma and acute care surgery, experiencing as much of Los Angeles as is possible, trying to learn golf
Research:  The semantics of cancer, philosophy of medicine 

Medical School: UCSF
Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley
Hometown: Sonoma, CA
Interests: Data science, running, lifting, skiing
Research: Transplant/oncology, translational/clinical informatics, precision medicine

Medical School: Columbia University
Undergraduate Institution: Georgetown University
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Interests: Backpacking/hiking trips, skiing (but only on the west coast), scuba diving, exploring new cities, pick-up soccer
Research Interests: Pediatric surgery, global surgery, surgical outcomes-based research

Medical School: Loma Linda University
Undergraduate Institution: Northern Caribbean University
Hometown: Montego-Bay, Jamaica
Interests: Traveling, learning new cultures, trying new foods (+ traveling to try new foods), anything with water, concerts/musicals, reading, knitting
Research Interests: Pediatric surgery, global surgery, public health

Medical School: Texas A&M
Undergraduate Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Hometown: Austin, TX
Interests: Traveling, concerts, going out to new restaurants and bars, house plants, cooking and video games
Research Interests: Outcomes and clinical research in either thoracic surgery or MIS, surgical education

Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Undergraduate Institution: Washington University in St. Louis
Hometown: Aurora, CO
Interests: Soccer, Hiking, Escape rooms, board games, Random adventures in LA
Research Interests: Global surgery, Health Equity, Trauma Surgery, Health policy

Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: University of Notre Dame
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Interests: Donuts (food in general), hiking/backpacking, any form of workout class
Research Interests: technology in medicine, bio/device design, health disparities, impact of environment on human health

Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Hometown: Berkeley, California
Interests: Boxing, hiking with my dog
Research Interests: Anthropology of surgery, violence prevention, health equity

Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate Institution: Yale College
Hometown: Honolulu, Hawaii
Interests: Reading, coloring, classical violin, long-distance running, figure skating​​​
Research Interests: Health equity and policy

Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Undergraduate Institution: Georgia Tech
Hometown: Houston, TX
Interests: dancing, lifting, sailing, cliff jumping, sports, sushi, crypto
Research Interests: machine perfusion of transplant organs, drone delivery of organs, medical devices, immunotherapy

Medical School: University of Southern California
Undergraduate Institution: Boston College
Hometown: Edison, NJ
Interests: Making music, time with family, cooking, hiking, soccer, waving hello to dogs on the street
Research Interests: Health services and outcomes research, thoracic surgical oncology, medical/surgical education

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Institution: University of Wisconsin
Hometown: Brighton, MI
Interests: Spikeball, hiking, climbing, live music, ice cream, burritos 
Research Interests: Health equity and disparities, improving access to surgical care among marginalized communities

Medical School: University of Southern California
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Hometown: West Hills, CA
Interests: Biking, traveling, beach days, charcuterie boards, finding LA's best new restaurants
Research Interests: Medical device design, transplant immunology, education

Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate: UC Berkeley
Hometown: Eureka, California
Interests: spending time with my family, long runs, going to the beach, traveling, reading
Research: Intestinal failure, multivisceral transplantation, transplant immunology

Medical School: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Hometown: Lake Elmo, MN
Interests: Trying new restaurants, being outdoors, spending time with my family, surgical oncology
Research: Basic science or translational research related to oncology with a preference to work with proteins

Medical School: New York University, Grossman School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington
Hometown: Spokane, WA
Interests:Live music, hiking, flea markets, collecting vinyl, contemporary dance
Research Interests: Clinical outcomes, health equity, endocrine surgery, education