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Past Residents

During the past 14 years, a total of 39 men and 29 women have completed the Chief Residency in General Surgery. 

Three followed their training with military service. Twenty-three have entered private practice General Surgery, 22 have entered academia, and 46 continued their training with fellowships in the following areas:

  • Bariatric Surgery
  • Breast Surgery
  • Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • Colorectal Surgery
  • Endocrine Surgery
  • Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery 
  • Minimally Invasive Surgery
  • Pediatric Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Surgical Oncology
  • Trauma/Critical Care  
  • Vascular Surgery

 
2024
Christopher Jeffery, MD: Plastic Surgery Fellowship, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Samara Lewis, MD: Private Practice, General Surgery, Topeka, KS
Lily Nguyen, MD: Private Practice, General Surgery, College Station, TX
Connor Wilkinson, MD: Private Practice, General surgery, Lawton, OK
Taylor Wilkinson, MD: Colorectal Surgery Fellowship, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN
 
2023
Andrea Geddes, MD: Private practice, General Surgery, Evanston, IL
Lindsay Lindsey, MD: Private practice, General Surgery, Jacksonville, FL
Taylor Martin, MD: Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT 
Andrew Murphy, MD: Vascular Surgery Fellowship, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA
Areej Sami, MD: Surgical Oncology Fellowship, Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
 
2022
Arthur Grimes, MD: Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Jackie Isabella, MD: Colorectal Surgery Fellowship, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
(Current position: Private practice in Baton Rouge, LA)     
Aditi Jalla, MD: Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Bailey Kleis, MD: US Air Force, Keesler Air Force Base 81st Medical Group, Biloxi, MS
Maureen Mannas, MD: Private Practice, General Surgery, Farmington, NM
Rachael Palumbo, MD: Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT 
 
2021
Heidi Mahnken, MD: Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX
(Current position: Private Practice, General Surgery, Louisville, KY)
Paul McGaha II, MD: Pediatric Surgery Fellowship, St. Louis Children's Hospital Washington University, St. Louis, MO
(Current position: Faculty at The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK)                        
Chance Nichols, MD: Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
(Current position: Faculty at The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK)
Noah Rozich, MD: Surgical Oncology Fellowship, Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
(Current position: Private practice in Webster, TX)
Mohamad Sidani, MD: Endocrine Surgery Fellowship, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX
(Current position: Faculty at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX)
Kiran Venincasa, MD: Private Practice, General Surgery, Rockwall, TX
 
2020
Cressilee Bryant, MD: Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
(Current position: Faculty at Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN)                                                                                                 
Jesse Conner, MD: MIS Fellowship, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
(Current position: Private practice in Castle Rock, CO)
Sigrid Johannesen, MD: Cardiothoracic Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
(Current position: Faculty at Baylor University, Dallas, TX)     
Omar Qutob, MD: Breast Surgery Fellowship, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
(Current Position: Faculty at University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine, Tulsa, OK)
Oscar Talledo, MD: Bariatric Fellowship, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
(Current position: Private practice in Little Rock, AR)
Kayla Watkins, MD: MIS Fellowship, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
(Current position: Private practice in Duncan, OK)
 
2019   
Benjamin Axtman, MD: Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
(Current position: Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Christopher Henry, MD: Vascular Surgery Fellowship, Baylor University, Dallas, TX
(Current position: Faculty at Baylor University, Dallas, TX)
Mary Lindemuth, MD: Breast Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
(Current position: Private practice in Oklahoma City, OK)
Cullen McCarthy, MD: Vascular Fellowship, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
(Current position: Private practice in Mobile, AL)
Emily Switzer, MD: Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA  
(Current position: Faculty at The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK)                                                                
 
2018 
Ademola Adeseye, MD: Cardiac Surgery Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 
(Current position: Private practice in Rome, GA)
Morgan Bonds, MD: Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Fellowship, Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA
(Current position: Faculty at The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK)
Magendran Danapal, MD: Vascular Surgery Fellowship, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC
(Current position: Private practice in Bowling Green, KY)
Alessandra Landmann, MD: Pediatric Surgery Fellowship, The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
Pediatric Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
(Current position: Faculty at The University of Oklahoma Children's, Oklahoma City, OK)
Frank C. Wood, MD: Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
(Current position: Faculty at The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK)
 
2017
Fadi Balla, MD: MIS Fellowship, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
(Current position: Faculty at Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR)
Juan Claros Sorto, MD: Breast Surgery Fellowship, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
(Current position: Faculty at The University of Oklahoma, College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, OK)
David Freeman, MD: Private practice, General Surgery, Albuquerque, NM
Benjamin Greif, MD: Expeditionary Surgeon, US Army   
Vascular Surgery Fellowship, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Danville, PA 
(Current position: Faculty at The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK)
Alex Schutz, MD: Cardiac Surgery Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
(Current position: Faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX)      
              
2016 
Kristina Booth, MD: Colorectal Surgery Fellowship, Texas Health Presbyterian/University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX.
(Current position: Faculty at The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK)
Jessica Enix, MD: Private practice, General Surgery, Chickasaw Nation Med Center, Ada, OK 
(Current position: Private Practice in Yukon, OK)
Jeremy Irvan, MD: Vascular Surgery Fellowship, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Danville, PA   
(Current position: Faculty at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine)
Luciano Poggi, MD: MIS Fellowship, St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, IN
(Current position: Private practice in Lima, Peru)
Alex Raines, MD: Faculty in General Surgery at The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
 
2015 
Abigail Maze-White, MD: Private practice, General Surgery, Jacksonville, IL
Timothy Weaver, MD: Private practice, General Surgery, Yukon, OK
Ryan Wicks, MD: Private practice, General Surgery, Oklahoma City, OK
Douglas Wiseman, MD: Endocrine Surgery Fellowship, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
(Current position: Private practice in Chicago, IL)
 
2014
Edgar Bedolla, MD: Plastic Surgery Fellowship, University of Miami, Miami, FL
(Current position: Private practice in Southlake, TX)
Juan Calisto, MD: Pediatric Surgery Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Pediatric Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
(Current position: Faculty at University of Miami Children's, Miami, FL)
Stephen Hersperger, MD: Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
(Current position: Faculty at Orlando Health, Orlando, FL)
Jeremy Johnson, MD: Pediatric Surgery Fellowship, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
(Current position: Faculty at The University of Oklahoma Children's, Oklahoma City, OK)
David Shepherd, MD: US Navy
(Current position: Private practice, General Surgery, Enid, OK)
 
2013
Allison Murphree, MD: Faculty at The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
(Current position: Private practice, General Surgery, Oklahoma City, OK)
Arpit Patel, MD: Colorectal Surgery Fellowship, Baylor University, Dallas, TX
(Current position: Private practice in Phoenix, AZ)
Sajid Shah, MD: Vascular Surgery Fellowship, Baylor University, Houston, TX
(Current position: Private practice in Baltimore, MD)
 
2012
John Makipour, MD: Private practice, General Surgery, Midwest City, OK
Elizabeth Papaila, MD: Private practice, General Surgery, Plano, TX
Daniel Shepherd, MD: Private practice, General Surgery, Oklahoma City, OK
Andrew Standerwick, MD: MIS Fellowship, Summa Health, Akron, OH
(Current position: Private practice in Dallas, TX)
 
2011
Steven Carter, MD: Colorectal Surgery Fellowship, Baylor Dallas, Dallas, TX
(Current position: Faculty at The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK)
Aimee Levy, MD: Faculty at the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
(Current position: Private Practice, General Surgery, Edmond, OK)
Jennifer McEvoy, MD: Private practice, General Surgery, Modesto, CA
Lindsay Pena, MD: Private practice, General Surgery, Durant, OK