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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 - Rural Faculty, Comanche County Memorial Hospital, 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
          (Current position: Trauma Critical Care Faculty, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center - OU Health, Oklahoma City, OK)
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
        (Current position: Trauma Critical Care Faculty, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center - OU Health, Oklahoma City, OK)
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: Pediatric Surgery Faculty, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center - OU Children's Hospital OU Health, Okc, OK)                       
Chance Nichols, MD: Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
(Current position: Trauma Critical Care Faculty, Medical Student Clerkship Director MSV, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center - OU Health, College of Medicine, 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: Trauma Critical Care Faculty, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center - OU Health, Okc, 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: Surgical Oncology Faculty, Assistant Professor & Assistant Dean of Recruitment and Admissions, Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 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: Surgical Critical Care Director of Surgery Faculty, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center - OU Children's Hospital OU Health, Oklahoma City, OK)     
Frank C. Wood, MD: Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
(Current position: Trauma Critical Care Faculty, Assistant Program Director General Surgery Residency, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center - OU Health, 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: Breast Surgery Faculty, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center - OU Health, 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: Vascular Surgery Faculty, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center - OU Health, 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: Associate Professor of Surgery, Colorectal Surgery Faculty, Associate Program Director General Surgery Residency, Assistant Dean of Graduate Medical Education, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, OU Health, 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
         (Current position: Associate Professor General Surgery Faculty, Associate Chief Physician Executive- Physician Practice, Medical Director of Adult Perioperative Services- OU Health Edmond, General Surgery Clerkship Director - College of Medicine, Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 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