General Surgery Residency Faculty

Our faculty includes top surgical professionals, providing high-quality patient care integrated with clinical and basic science research and intensive teaching at all levels. Every surgical discipline is covered across the Department of Surgery at our primary teaching institutions:

• UH Cleveland Medical Center
• Louis B. Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
• UH Geauga Medical Center, a campus of UH Regional Hospitals
• UH St. John Medical Center

Our leaders are trained in a variety of specialties and continue to present and publish some of the best international clinical outcomes. Faculty members are approachable and eager to take part in the education of the next generation of world-class surgeons.

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University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Chairman

• Joseph Sabik III, MD 

Cardiac Surgery

• Marc Pelletier, MD, MSc – Division Chief
• Yasir Abu-Omar, MD
• Cristian Baeza, MD
• Yakov Elgudin, MD
• Alan Markowitz, MD
• Gregory Rushing, MD
• Joseph Sabik III, MD

Colorectal Surgery

• David Dietz, MD – Division Chief
• Ronald Charles, MD
• Jennifer Miller-Ocuin, MD
• Sharon Stein, MD
• Emily Steinhagen-Golbig, MD

General and Gastrointestinal Surgery

• Raymond Onders, MD
• Mujjahid Abbas, MD
• Leena Khaitan, MD
• Jeffrey Marks, MD 

Surgical Oncology

• Jordan Winter, MD – Division Chief
• Amanda Amin, MD
• John Ammori, MD
• Jeffrey Hardacre, MD
• Richard Hoehn, MD
• Megan Miller, MD
• Lee Ocuin, MD
• Luke Rothermel, MD, MPH
• Robert Shenk, MD
• Scott Wilhelm, MD

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

• Anthony Tufaro, MD, DDS &ndash Interim Division Chief
• Edward Davidson, MD
• Joseph Khouri, MD
• Kyle Lineberry, MD
• Howard Wang, MD

Pediatric Surgery

• Edward Barksdale, MD – Division Chief
• Michael Dingeldein, MD
• Eiichi Miyasaka, MD

Thoracic Surgery

• Philip Linden, MD – Division Chief
• Luis Marcelo Argote-Greene, MD
• Jillian Sinopoli, DO
• Christopher Towe, MD
• Leonidas Tapias Vargas, MD

Transplant Surgery

• Zoe Stewart-Lewis, MD
— Division Chief
• Mark Aeder, MD
• Kai Zhao, MD

Trauma Surgery

• Matthew Moorman, MD, MBA – Division Chief
• Lauren Donatelli-Seyler, DO
• Andrew Loudon, MD
• Nathaniel McQuay, MD
• Joshua Nash, DO
• Joseph Posluszny, MD
• Brandon Radow, MD
• Amy Rushing, MD
• Glen Tinkoff, MD
• Jeffrey Ustin, MD 
• Aisha Violette, MD
• Chloe Williams, MD

Vascular Surgery

• Jae Cho, MD 
• Karem Harth, MD
• Norman Kumins, MD

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Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

Chief of Surgical Services

• Jessie Jean-Claude, MD

Cardiothoracic Surgery

• Brian Cmolik, MD
• Yakov Elgudin, MD
• Joseph Rubelowsky, MD

General Surgery

• Eric Marderstein, MD - Section Chief
• Katherine Kelly, MD
• Amy McDonald, MD
• Christopher Siegel, MD
• Thomas Stellato, MD
• Ray Wong, MD

Vascular Surgery

• Gilles Pinault, MD - Section Chief
• Lleowell Garcia, MD
• Jonathan Kwong, MD
• Michael Rosenbaum, MD

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University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center

• John Jasper, MD
• Jeffrey Parks, MD

University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center

• Christopher Bohac, MD
• Maria Madden, MD
• Jacob Petroskey, MD
• Liming Yu, MD

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University Hospitals Parma Medical Center

• Matthew Burstein, MD, PhD

University Hospitals St. John Medical Center

• Daanish Kazi, DO
• Michael Liu, MD
• Ashley Simpson, DO