Alumni

2026
Joseph Giacolone, MD	Community General Surgeon in Coastal Maine
Aleezay Haider, MD	General Surgery at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, NM
Hamza Hanif, MD	Vascular Surgery Fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Ryan Keffer, MD	General Surgery at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, Santa Fe, NM
Roxann Lerma, MD	Bariatric and Foregut Fellowship at LSU Health, New Orleans, LA
Micah Vivens, MD	Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship at the University of Iowa
Robin Wright, MD	General Surgery at Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center, NM
2025
Yalda Barlas, MD	Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, Oregon Health Sciences University
Andrew Fisher, MD	Trauma and Acute Care Surgery fellowship, UT Houston
Kristin Giacolone, MD	Private Practice, Presbyterian Rust Medical Center, Albuquerque, NM
Oluwadara Okorafor, MD	General Surgery Practice, North Dakota
Erin Simmons, MD	Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, University of Pittsburg
2024
Morgan Evans, MD	Trauma & Critical Care Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
Kasey Llorente, MD	Acute Care Surgery Fellowship, Wake Forest, NC
Raye Ng, MD	MIS/Bariatric Fellowship, University of Kentucky
Joyce Pang, MD	Colon and Rectal Surgery Fellowship, Oregon Health & Science
Marques Pena, MD	Private Practice, Integris Health, Oklahoma City, OK
Grace Pyon, MD	Private Practice, Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group, Burlingame, CA
Brianne Wiemann, MD	Endocrine Surgery Fellowship, University of Michigan

2023
Arshia (Seyed) Arshad, MD	MIS Fellowship – Medical College of Wisconsin
Jordan Eckert, MD	Private Practice – Integris Health, Oklahoma City
Ghassan Jawad, MD	SCC Fellowship – University of New Mexico
Robin Osofsky, MD	Vascular Surgery Fellowship – Oregon Health and Science Center
Amos Zimmermann, MD	Vascular Surgery Fellowship – University of Virginia

2022
Nida Bham, MD	Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship- Yale
Trent Burgess, MD	General Surgery- SRMC, UNM
Andrew Christensen, MD	Private Practice- Alamagordo, NM
Cyril Kamya, MD	MIS Fellowship- University of Nebraska
Ramses Saavedra, MD	MIS/Bariatric Fellowship- University of Iowa
Rebecca Williams-Karenesky, MD	Endocrine Surgery Fellowship- University of Wisconsin

2021
Fabian Alberto, MD	Surgical Critical Care Fellowship- OHSU
Jacquelyn (Jax) Brandenburg, DO	Private Practice- Albuquerque, NM
Christopher Dominguez, MD	Private Practice- Albuquerque, NM
Nadia Guardado, MD	Private Practice- Albuquerque, NM
Gevork (JoJo) Tatarian, MD	Cosmetic Surgery Fellowship- Miami, FL

2020
Jaideep Das Gupta, MD	Vascular Surgery Fellowship - UC San Diego
Lisa Merriman, MD	Surgical Critical Care Fellowship - UNM
Neel Prakash, MD	MIS Fellowship – Swedish Medical Center, Seattle WA
Rodrigo Rodriguez, MD	Surgical Critical Care Fellowship - Vanderbilt University
Rebecca Sauerwein, MD	Private Practice – Great Falls, Montana
Jimmy Verlanic, MD	Private Practice – Helena, Montana

2019
Molloy Glenn, DO	Private Practice- Madison, WI
Alissa Greenbaum, MD	Surgical Oncology Fellowship- Rutgers University
Zoe Jones, MD	Private Practice- Alamagordo, NM
Baila Maqbool, MD	Surgical Critical Care Fellowship – UNM
Louis Melendez, MD	Private Practice- Albuquerque, NM
Deepak Ozhatil, MD	Burn/Critical Care Fellowship- UTMB, Galveston, TX

2018
Barkat Ali, MD	Reconstruction Plastic Surgery - University of New Mexico
Steven Cali, MD	Palliative Care Fellowship- University of Utah
Ross Clark, MD	Vascular Surgery Fellowship- Vanderbilt University
Lars Webb, MD	MIS Fellowship- University of Tennessee

2017
Eyas Alakali, MD	Endocrine Surgery Fellowship- Johns Hopkins University
David Hoang, MD	Private Practice- Albuquerque, NM
Richard Miskimins, MD	Surgical Critical Care Fellowship- OHSU
Brandy Padilla-Jones, MD	Surgical Critical Care Fellowship- UT Houston
David Tobey, DO	Vascular Surgery Fellowship- Harbor UCLA

General Surgery Residency

Residency Program Director

Jasmeet S. Paul, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery
1 University of New Mexico
MSC10 5610
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

Residency Program Coordinator

Ashley R Hatcher
Medical Education Program Specialist
505-272-6434
ARHatcher@salud.unm.edu