Surgery Residency Program Program Director Welcome Curriculum & Training Sites Meet the Chief Residents Alumni How to Apply Contact Us Alumni Home Research Research: Clinical Departments Surgery: Home Surgery: Education & Training Surgery: Education & Training > Residency Program Surgery: Education & Training > Residency Program > Alumni Residency Graduates Our graduates have forged different paths based on their surgical passions. Some have pursued subspeciality fellowships in academic institutions, while others have moved toward private, group or HMO practice organizations. In the past decade, around 80% of our trainees have gone to prestigious fellowships in a range of specialty areas: Colorectal 11 alumni Trauma/Surgical Critical Care 10 alumni Minimally Invasive Foregut/Bariatrics Eight alumni Vascular Surgery Seven alumni Plastics Two alumni Advanced Gastrointestinal/Minimally Invasive Surgery Two alumni Thoracic Oncology One alum Surgical Oncology One alum Pediatrics One alum Breast One alum Recent Residency Alumni Resident Graduation Year Post-Graduate Specialty Arsha Ostowari, MD 2025 Fellowship - University of Tennessee Health Science Center Surgical Oncology Madison Murray, MD 2025 Private Practice General Surgery Tyler Liang, MD 2025 Fellowship - USC Vascular Surgery Jeffrey Santos, MD 2025 Fellowship - Wake Forest University Surgical Critical Care Jingjing Yu, MD 2025 Fellowship - UC Irvine Surgical Oncology Sarah Yuen, MD 2025 Fellowship - Cedars Sinai Breast Surgery Ashton Christian, MD 2024 Providence Mission Hospital General Surgery Wendy Rockne, MD 2024 Fellowship - UT Houston Trauma/Surgical Critical Care Morgan Manasa, MD 2024 Fellowship - UCSF Advanced GI/MIS Perisa Ruhi-Williams, MD 2024 Fellowship - Stanford University Advanced GI/MIS Brittany Sullivan, MD 2024 Fellowship - Duke University Surgical Oncology Christina Tse, MD 2024 Kaiser Permanente - Downey, CA General Surgery Katie Galvin, MD 2023 Fellowship - USC Advanced GI/MIS Elliot Silver, MD 2023 Fellowship - UC Irvine Surgical Critical Care Dean Spencer, MD 2023 Fellowship - Loma Linda University Cardiothoracic Surgery Stephen Stopenski, MD 2023 Fellowship - UC San Diego Surgical Critical Care Eric Yeates, MD 2023 Fellowship - Virginia Commonwealth Surgical Critical Care Miya Yoshida, DO 2023 Fellowship - NYU Advanced GI/MIS Raymond Chou, MD 2022 Kaiser Permanente - San Bernadino, CA General Surgery Patrick Delaplain, MD 2022 Fellowship - Boston Children's Hospital Pediatric Surgery William Duong, MD 2022 Fellowship - UCLA Vascular Surgery Cyrus Farazaneh, MD 2022 Fellowship - UPenn Colon and Rectal Surgery Elsie Robertson, MD 2022 MemorialCare- Saddleback Hospital, Laguna Hills, CA General Surgery Rene Tellez, MD 2022 Kaiser Permanente - San Bernadino, CA General Surgery Lutfi Al-Khouja, MD 2021 Kaiser Permanente - Sacramento, CA General Surgery Sahil Gambhir, MD 2021 Fellowship - USC Advanced GI/MIS Shelley Maithel, MD 2021 Fellowship - USC Vascular Surgery Daniel Mayers, DO 2021 VA Medical Center General Surgery Keri Mayers, DO 2021 Fellowship - UPenn Colon and Rectal Surgery Hodad Naderi, MD 2021 Providence Holy Cross General Surgery Brian Sheehan, MD 2021 Fellowship - Stanford University Vascular Surgery Viktor Gabriel, MD 2020 Fellowship - UC Irvine Surgical Critical Care Areg Grigorian, MD 2020 Fellowship - USC Surgical Critical Care/Trauma Raveendra Morchi, MD 2020 Fellowship - UCLA Cardiothoracic Surgery Nicholas Serniak, MD 2020 Fellowship - USC Colon and Rectal Surgery Blake Wachi, MD 2020 Private Practice General Surgery