General Surgery Residency Program Graduates at Danbury Hospital

2023

Maksim Boguslavskiy
Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Shawn Liechty
Advanced GI/Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship, Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC

Alexander Ostapenko
Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, University of CT, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT and Bariatric Surgery Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

2022

Timothy Burton
Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, Spectrum Healthcare, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI

Juan Flores-Gonzalez
Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, University of Illinois Metro Group Hospitals, Chicago, IL

Alpen Nacar
Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, LAC+USC Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA

2021

Kimberly Corbitt
Vascular Surgery Fellowship, McLaren Flint/Michigan State University, Flint, MI

Benefsha Mohammad
Advanced GI MIS/Bariatric Fellowship, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

Patrick Zimmerman
Surgical Critical Care, George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Washington, D.C.

2020

Devin Gillaspie
Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Zachary Phillips
Mastery in General Surgery Program Chief, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

2019

Biren Juthani
Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, University Hospital, Newark, NJ

Andrew McGregor
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Nassau University Medical Center, NY

Ian Schlieder
Vascular Surgery Fellowship, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT

2018

Rima Ahmad
Advanced GI/Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Indianapolis, IN

Ioannis Kontopidis
Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship, Wake Forest University, Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC

Michele Richard
Vascular Surgery Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Rachel Scott
Colon and Rectal Surgery Fellowship, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT

2017

Aleksandra Ogrodnik
Minimally Invasive Fellowship, Northwell Health System, Staten Island, NY

Amrita Pandit
Acute Care/General Surgery, Carle Foundation Hospital, Carle Physician Group, Urbana, IL

Madian Yahya
Acute Care/Trauma Surgery, Danbury Hospital, Danbury, CT

2016

Stuart Blackwood
Vascular Surgery Fellowship, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Sameer Kaiser
Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, and Advanced GI/Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship, Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ

Emilia Król
Vascular Surgery Fellowship, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA

2015

Khaldoun Bekdache
Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, University of CT, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT

Foula Kontonicolas
Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, University of CT, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT

John (Ben) Yarger
Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, University of Missouri Hospital, Columbia, MO

2014

Carlos Samuel Morales
Colon and Rectal Fellowship, University of Miami, Miami, FL

Magdalena Plasilova
Breast Surgery Fellowship, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT

2013

Andrew Cha
Vascular Surgery Fellowship, UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ

Alpin Malkan
Pediatric Surgical Oncology, St. Jude’s Medical, Memphis, TN

Vladimir Neychev
Endocrine Surgery, NIH, Bethesda, MD

2012

Ibrahim Adamu
Colon and Rectal Fellowship, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA

Dorothy Sparks
Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, FL

2011

Andrei Cocieru
Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary Fellowship, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC

Brian Matier
Colon and Rectal Fellowship, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY