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General Surgery Core Faculty

Program Management

Gabriel Akopian, MD, MBA, General Surgery, Program Director, Boswell Chair, Department of Surgery

Gabriel Akopian, MD, MBA

General Surgery
Program Director
Boswell Chair,
Department of Surgery

Richard Vasak, MD

Richard Vasak, MD

General Surgery
Associate Program Director
Surgical Critical Care / Trauma

Marco Franco

General Surgery
Program Supervisor

General Surgery Faculty

Aaron Lewis, MD

Surgical Oncology

Portrait of Huntington Hospital Employee James Recabaren

James Recabaren, MD

Surgical Oncology

Magdi Alexander, MD

General Surgery

Amal Obaid-Schmid, MD

Surgical Critical Care/Trauma
Medical Director of Trauma Services

Edward Kwon, MD

Surgical Critical Care/Trauma

Sanjeev Puri, MD

Plastic Surgery

Julian Golan, MD

Colorectal Surgery

Adam Truong, MD

Colorectal Surgery
Surgery Clerkship Director

Voluntary Faculty

HEPATOBILIARY/SURGICAL ONCOLOGY (HPB/ONC)

Alicia Terando, MD

Andres Kaiser, MD

Benjamin Paz, MD

James Andersen, MD

Linnea Peterson, MD

Thomas Gernon, MD

Amirhossein Mahfoozi, MD

Andrew Brownlee, MD

Ellie Maghami, MD

Jeannie Shen, MD

Marc Attiyeh, MD

Wai Yee-Li, MD

Amy Polverini, MD

Anna Howell, MD

Ioannis Konstantinidis, MD

Katharine Schulz-Costello, DO

Sujit Kulkarni, MD

William Tseng, MD

TRAUMA/ACUTE CARE SURGERY (T/ACS)

Andrew Singleton, MD

Danielle Dabbs, DO

PLASTIC/RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY (PRS)

Adam O’Toole, MD

Christopher Tiner, MD

John Compoginis, MD

COLORECTAL/MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY (CRS/MIS)

Asok Doraiswamy, MD

Daniel Ybarra, MD, MPH

Troy LaMar, MD

Brian Lugo, MD

Jonathan Hwee, MD

Wes Powell, MD

Daniel Moon, MD

Noah Swann, MD

Christina Poa-Li, MD

VASCULAR SURGERY & PEDIATRIC SURGERY (VASC/PEDS)

Cassra Arbabi, MD

Miguel Manzur, MD

Steven Chen, MD

Donald Baril, MD

Sally Schonefeld, MD

Theodore Teruya, MD

Elizabeth Chou, MD

Shant Shekherdemian, MD

William Lee, MD

GASTROENTEROLOGY (GI)

Ihab Beblawi, MD

Richard Nickowitz, MD

Julie Yang, MD

Sassan Soltani, MD

Peter Rosenberg, MD

Wei-Chung Chen, MD