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
• UH St. John Medical Center
• UH Portage 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
• Sharon Stein, MD
• Emily Steinhagen-Golbig, MD

General and Gastrointestinal Surgery

• Raymond Onders, MD – Division Chief
• Mujjahid Abbas, MD
• Ryan Juza, MD
• Leena Khaitan, MD
• Jeffrey Marks, MD 

Surgical Oncology

• Jordan Winter, MD – Division Chief
• John Ammori, MD
• Jeffrey Hardacre, MD
• Megan Miller, MD
• Luke Rothermel, MD, MPH
• Robert Shenk, MD
• Scott Wilhelm, MD

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

• Anand Kumar, MD – Division Chief
• Edward Davidson, MD
• Donald Harvey, MD
• Joseph Khouri, MD
• Kyle Lineberry, MD

Pediatric Surgery

• Edward Barksdale, MD – Division Chief
• Michael Dingeldein, MD
• Anne Kim-Mackow, MD
• Eiichi Miyasaka, MD

Thoracic Surgery

• Philip Linden, MD – Division Chief
• Luis Marcelo Argote-Greene, MD
• Christopher Towe, MD
• Stephanie Worrell, MD

Transplant Surgery

• Kenneth Chavin, MD, PhD – Division Chief
• Mark Aeder, MD
• Meelie DebRoy, MD
• John Rabets, MD
• Edmund Sanchez, MD
• Kai Zhao, MD

Trauma Surgery

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

Vascular Surgery

• Vikram S. Kashyap, MD – Division Chief
• Jae Cho, MD 
• Karem Harth, MD
• Norman Kumins, MD
• Virginia Wong, 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 Geauga Medical Center

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

University Hospitals St. John Medical Center

• Mary Freyvogel, DO
• Daanish Kazi, DO
• Michael Liu, MD
• Amani Munshi, MD
• Ashley Simpson, MD

University Hospitals Portage Medical Center

• Iuliana Bobanga, MD
• Jason A. Fried, DO
• John R. Gusz, MD
• Claudine E. Siegert, MD
• Jared C. Storck, DO
• Lynn A. Wojtasik, MD
• Hannah Zhou, MD