University of Pittsburgh Department of Surgery

Fellowship Graduates

Initial post-graduate position:	Present Position:
2005-2007
Niraj J. Gusani, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Penn State University College of Medicine Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Section of Surgical Oncology Department of Surgery, H149 500 University Drive, P.O. Box 850 Hershey, PA 17033-0850
Sam Pappas, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Medical College of Wisconsin 9200 West Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226 (414)805-5706 (414)259-9225
Xiang (Eric) Da Dong, MD Asst Clinical Professor of Surgery Stamford Hospital - Affiliated of Columbia University 1351 Washington Blvd, 6th floor Stamford, CT 06902
Claudia Hriesik, MD, PhD Colorectal Surgery Fellowship Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OHIO
2004-2006
Sharmila Roy-Chowdhury, MD Assistant Professor Division of Surgical Oncology Loma Linda University Medical Center 11175 Campus St, Rm 21112 Coleman Pavilion Loma Linda, CA 92354 909-558-8390
Matthew P. Holtzman, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Department of Surgery Division of Surgical Oncology University of Pittsburgh
Matthew D'Alessio, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Staff Surgical Oncologist Liver, Pancreas, and Minimally Invasive, Gastrointestinal Surgery University of South Alabama Mitchell Cancer Institute
Stephen Winikoff, MD Surgical Oncologist Cancer Care Northwest Spokane Washington
2003-2005
Sahir Shroff, MD WellStar Kennestone Hospital Summit Surgical Specialists 55 Whitcher Street, Suite 260 Marietta, GA 30060	Same
Sai Varanasi, MD Hudson Valley Medical Group Private Practice Cortlandt Manor, NY	Same
T. Clark Gamblin, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Divisions of Liver Transplant and Surgical Oncology University of Pittsburgh	Same
2002-2004
Gordon Padovan, MD University of Pittsburgh Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213	Private Practice Sydney, Australia
Eric Acosta, MD Guagalupe General Hospital Associate Professor of Surgery Puebla, Mexico 72000
Rod Flynn, MD University of Maryland	Surgical Oncology/General Surgery Mary Washington Hospital 1101 Sam Perry Boulevard, Suite 203 Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540-899-1340 540-899-1346 (fax)
Vivek Maheshwari, MD Private Practice NY, NY
2001-2003
Lisa Rutstein, MD Department of Surgery Maine Medical Center 22 Bramhall Street Portland, ME 04102	Same
Thangamani Seenivasan, MD Raritan Valley Surgical Associates Sommerset Medical Center Cancer Institute of New Jersey 611 Courtyard Drive Building 600 Hillsborough, NJ 08844	Same
Khalid Shalaby, MD University of Pittsburgh UPMC Shadyside	Same
2000-2002
Captain James Schneider, MD US Navy Norfolk, Va	Chairman, Department of Surgery Naval Medical Center 620 John Paul Jones Circle Portsmouth, VA 23708
Martin Goodman, MD Peninsula Surgical Specialists Dorothy Schneider Cancer 50 San Mateo Drive, Suite 360 San Mateo, CA 94010	Tufts New England Medical Center Assistant Professor of Surgery
Kamy Kemp, MD Norfolk Surgical Group Surgical Oncology 6160 Kempsville Circle, Suite 101B Norfolk, VA 23320	Breast Surgeon/Certified Mammographer Breast Care Center of Florida 1925 Mizell, Suite 306 Winter Park, FL 32792 407-644-1445 866-452-5367
Borys Mascarenhas, MD Private practice 720 N. Bates Street Mt. Dora, FL 32757
1999-2001
Jeffrey Falk, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery University of Pittsburgh Magee Women's Hospital Halket Street Pittsburgh, PA 15213	Same
Virginia Litle, MD Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship Junior Attending University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15213	Division of Thoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center Fifth Avenue, Box 1028 New York, NY 10029 1-212-659-9521 1-212-659-6818 (fax)
1998-2000
Michael Covelli, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Robert C. Byrd Health Science Center Charleston Division Charleston, WV	Same
Joseph D'Agostino, MD Private Practice Bangor, Maine	Same
Eli Avisar, MD Academic Position Kibutz Shluchot, D.N. Beit Shean Israel 10910.	Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Miami
1997-1999
Faek Jamali, M.D. Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship EITS Strasbourg, France	Faek R. Jamali, MD, FACS, FSSO Assistant Professor of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, P.O. Box 11-0236 Riad El Solh 110 72020 Beirut, Lebanon
Ramesh Ramanathan, MD University of Pittsburgh Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship Junior Attending Pittsburgh, PA 15213	University of Pittsburgh, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Pablo Duran, MD Private Practice Panama	Same
1997-1998
Albert Navarro, MD Private Practice, Panama	Same
1996-1998
Rexford Thomas, Ph.D., M.D. Private Practice Orchard Park, North Carolina	Promedics Health Group Buffalo, NY
Huan Vu, MD, FACS Assistant Professor of Surgery Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX	VCU Surgical Oncology Richmond, VA 23298-0011
1995-1997
Nick Nguyen, M.D. University of Pittsburgh Thoracic Surgery 3471 Fifth Avenue 401 Kaufmann Building Pittsburgh, PA 15213	Assistant Professor of Surgery, UC Davis Medical Center, Director of the Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery 4301 X Street Room 2310 Sacramento, CA 95817
Scott Hanan, MD Private practice New York, New York	Same
1994-1996
Keith Dookeran, M.D. Mercy Hospital Department of Surgery 1400 Locust Street Pittsburgh, Pa	Department of Surgery Associate Chairman for Clinical Trials, Education and Research Cook County Hospital Chicago, Illinois
Sadiq Sikora, M.D. Assistant Professor of Surgery Dept. of Surgical Gastroenterology SGPGIMS, Rae Bareli Road Lucknow - 226014, India	Same
1993-1995
James Goydos, M.D. Cancer Institute of New Jersey Department of Surgery 195 Little Albany Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901	Same
George Lloyd, M.D. Miners Memorial Medical Center 360 West Ruddle Street Coaldale, PA 18218	Butler Memorial Hospital 911 East Brady Street Butler, PA 16001
1992-1994
Itzhak Pappo, M.D. Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center Department of Surgery A Tel-Aviv University Zerifin 70300 Israel	Same
Mauricio Geraldo, M.D. University of Pittsburgh Fellow, Transplantation 200 Lothrop Street Pittsburgh, PA 15213	Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Center Transplant Surgery Boston, Mass.