Surgery Residency Program Curriculum & Training Sites Meet the Chief Residents Alumni How to Apply Contact Us Alumni Home About Campus & Community Resources 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 Katie Galvin, MD 2023 Fellowship - USC Advanced GI/MIS Elliot Silver, MD 2023 Fellowship - UCI Surgical Critical Care/Trauma Dean Spencer, MD 2023 Fellowship - Loma Linda University Medical Center Cardiothoracic Surgery Stephen Stopenski, MD 2023 Fellowship - UC San Diego Surgical Critical Care/Trauma Eric Yeates, MD 2023 Fellowship - Virginia Commonwealth Surgical Critical Care/Trauma Miya Yoshida, DO 2023 Fellowship - NYU Advanced GI/MIS Raymond Chou, MD 2022 Kaiser Permanente - San Bernardino, CA General Surgery Patrick Delaplain, MD 2022 Fellowship - Boston Children's Hospital Pediatric Surgery William Duong, MD 2022 Fellowship - UCLA Vascular Surgery Cyrus Farzaneh, MD 2022 Fellowship - University of Pennsylvania Colon and Rectal Surgery Elsie Robertson, MD 2022 MemorialCare - Saddleback Hospital, Laguna Hills, CA General Surgery Rene Tellez, MD 2022 Kaiser Permanente - San Bernardino, CA General Surgery Lutfi Al-Khouja, MD 2021 Kaiser Permanente - Sacramento, CA General Surgery Sahil Gambhir, MD 2021 Fellowship - University of Southern California MIS Foregut/Bariatrics Shelley Maithel, MD 2021 Fellowship - University of Southern California Vascular Surgery Daniel Mayers, DO 2021 Private Practice General Surgery Keri Mayers, DO 2021 Fellowship - University of Pennsylvania 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 - UCI Trauma/Surgical Critical Care Areg Grigorian, MD 2020 Fellowship - University of Southern California Trauma/Surgical Critical Care Ravi Morchi, MD 2020 Fellowship - University of California, Los Angeles Cardiothoracic Surgery Nicholas Serniak, MD 2020 Fellowship - University of Southern California Colon and Rectal Surgery Blake Wachi, MD 2020 Private Practice - Tacoma, WA General Surgery