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General Surgery Residency

College

  • Center City Campus
  • Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Degree Earned

  • Residency

Program Length

6 - 7 years

Program Type

  • On Campus

ACGME ID: 4404121301
NRMP CODE: 1630440C0

Senior Surgery Clerkship
OUR MATCH PLEDGE

Leadership

Karen Chojnacki, MD
  • Program Director
  • Francis E. Rosato Professor in Surgery

Program Contact

Brielle Maugeri Gonzalez
Program Coordinator

1015 Walnut Street
Curtis Building Suite 613
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Department of Surgery

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Graduates

Each year, 98 percent of graduating Jefferson surgical residents pass both the written and oral boards. 

Nearly all program graduates (94%) seek specialty training after completion of their residency. The table below lists where our residents have gone on to train and practice immediately following graduation:

2026

2026 General Surgery Residency Chiefs with Program Director Karen A. Chojnacki, MD (center): Drs. Sunjay Kumar, Wissam Nasser, Luke Meredith, Fari Fall, Kathleen Jarrell, William Preston, and Hamza Rshaidat.
FallFellowshipVascular Surgery  NYU Langone Health
JarrellPost-Grad Research YearPediatricsNemours Children's Health, Delaware Valley
KumarFellowshipAdvanced GI MIS/Bariatrics/Hernia and Abdominal Wall FellowshipThe Miriam Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
MeredithFellowship Thoracic SurgeryUniversity of Michigan
NasserFellowshipBariatrics/Foregut SurgerySt Luke's University Hospital and Health Network
PrestonFellowshipAbdominal Transplant SurgeryMassachusetts General Hospital
RshaidatFellowshipAdvanced GI MIS FellowshipMcGill University Health Centre Hospitals
2025 General Surgery Residency Chiefs with Program Director Karen A. Chojnacki, MD (center): Drs. Devon Pace, Michaela Langille Collins, Kirsten Lung, Lindsay Weil, Tina Bharani, and Darshak Thosani.

2025

BharaniFellowshipMIS/Bariatric Surgery University of Iowa
Langille CollinsFellowshipCardiothoracic Surgery University of Chicago
LungFellowshipBreast Surgery Northwestern University
PaceFellowship Transplant SurgeryUniversity of Michigan
ThosaniFellowshipSurgical Critical CareRiverside University Health System
WeilFellowshipColorectal SurgeryRutgers Robert Wood Johnson
2024 General Surgery Residency Chiefs with Program Director Karen A. Chojnacki, MD (center): Drs. James Fraser, Uzma Rahman, Andrew Hallett, Ryan Lamm, Brian Till, Walker Lyons, and Madison Crutcher.

2024

CrutcherFellowshipVascular Surgery Northwestern
FraserFellowshipMinimally Invasive Surgery UC Irvine
HallettFellowshipColorectal Surgery Corewell/Spectrum Health (MI)
LammFellowship Complex General Surgical OncologyCity of Hope Medical Center (CA)
LyonsFellowshipBreast Surgical OncologyFox Chase Cancer Center/Temple Health
RahmanFellowshipCardiothoracic SurgeryJohns Hopkins
TillFellowshipCardiothoracic SurgeryUCSF
2023 General Surgery Residency Chiefs with Program Director Karen A. Chojnacki, MD (center): Drs. Keyur Patel, Adrienne Christopher, Osama Shaheen, Lindsay Lynch, Peter Altshuler, Lisa Bevilacqua, and Prashanth Palvannan.

2023

AltshulerFellowshipTransplant Surgery UCSF
BevilacquaFellowshipCardiothoracic SurgeryBrigham & Women's
ChristopherFellowshipPlastic Surgery Vanderbilt
LynchFellowship Vascular SurgeryWake Forest
PalvannanFellowshipVascular SurgeryMount Sinai
PatelFellowshipTrauma / Surgical Critical CareUT Southwestern
ShaheenFellowshipMinimally Invasive Surgery UCSF Fresno
2022 General Surgery Residency Chiefs with Program Director Karen A. Chojnacki, MD (center): Drs. Nkosi Alvarez, Steven Woodward, Thomas O'Malley, Arturo Rios-Diaz, Alicja Zalewski, Richard Zheng, and Courtney Devin.

2022

AlvarezFellowshipCardiothoracic Surgery Johns Hopkins
DevinFellowshipColorectal SurgeryEmory
O'MalleyFellowshipCardiothoracic Surgery Emory
Rios DiazFellowship Plastic SurgeryUniversity of Pennsylvania
WoodwardFellowshipBreast SurgeryUniversity of Pennsylvania
ZalewskiFellowshipMinimally Invasive SurgeryBaystate
ZhengFellowshipSurgical OncologyJohns Hopkins

2021

2021 General Surgery Residency Chiefs with Program Director Karen A. Chojnacki, MD (center)
CallahanFellowshipMinimally Invasive SurgeryNorthshore Health System
CaparosaFellowshipColorectal SurgeryThomas Jefferson University Hospital
GadomskiFellowshipAcute Care SurgeryVanderbilt University
KincaidFellowship Surgical Critical CarePenn State
KozakFellowshipPlastic SurgeryUniversity of Pennsylvania
KucejkoFellowshipColorectal SurgeryLahey Clinic
2020 General Surgery Residency Chiefs with Program Director Karen A. Chojnacki, MD (center)

2020

ChevrollierFellowshipColorectal SurgeryOchsner Medical Center
HewittFellowshipSurgical OncologyOhio State
JacovidesFellowshipTrauma SurgeryUniversity of Pennsylvania
LundgrenFellowship Minimally Invasive SurgeryCleveland Clinic
NandraFellowshipColorectal SurgeryRutgers University
StemFellowshipColorectal SurgeryUniversity of Wisconsin
2019 General Surgery Residency Chiefs

2019

AkaFellowship Colorectal SurgeryFlorida Hospital - Orlando
BrownFellowshipMinimally Invasive SurgeryStony Brook University
DukleskaFellowshipPediatric SurgeryUniversity of Connecticut
Johnson, A. FellowshipVascular SurgeryNYP Columbia/Cornell
LatonaFellowshipSurgical Critical CareThomas Jefferson University Hospital
McKeownFellowshipColorectal SurgeryRutgers/Robert Wood Johnson
2018 General Surgery Residency Chiefs with Charles J. Yeo, MD (center)

2018

CostanzoFellowshipColorectal SurgeryThomas Jefferson University Hospital
GiuglianoFellowshipColorectal SurgeryCleveland Clinic
KogantiFellowshipTrauma SurgeryEmory University
StricklandFellowshipVascular SurgeryWake Forest University
TannouriFellowshipMinimally Invasive SurgeryUniversity of Maryland
TatarianFellowshipMinimally Invasive SurgeryStony Brook University
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