Current and Past Transplant Surgery Fellows
Fellows have the advantage of being located directly on a full university campus with full access to all of its resources in the center of a major city. The University libraries, facilities and gym are all available for use whenever seen fit. Information on salary, benefits and employee health is also available for prospective applicants.
Our fellows have been successful in securing hospitalist positions, teaching jobs and leading research opportunities across the globe upon the completion of our program.
Current Residents
Class of 2025
Ruchin Patel, MBBS
MBBS: Kesarsal Medical College and Research Institute
Residency: UIC/Metropolitan Group of Hospitals
Research Interests: Clinical outcomes research in liver transplant and hepatobiliary surgery
Srinivasan Muthukrishnan, MBBS, MS, MCh, FACS
MBBS: Madurai Medical College, India
General Surgery Residency: Stanley Medical College, India
GI/HPB Surgery Fellowship: Madras Medical College, India
Research Interests: Role of Robotics in transplant surgery, Liver transplantation for malignancies
Class of 2024
Massimo Arcerito, MD
MD: Università degli Studi di Catania Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia
Residency: Cedars Sinai
Research Interests: Focus on clinical outcome, now in transplant, adding of possible translation therapy and basic science
Class of 2023
James Avruch, MD
MD: Tufts University School of Medicine
Residency: St Elizabeth\'s Medical Center, Boston MA
Research Interests: Ex-vivo liver perfusion
Amber N. Carrier, MD, PhD
MD: Wake Forest School of Medicine
Residency: East Carolina Brody School of Medicine/Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC
Research Interests: Organ allocation policy, expansion of the available donor pool, disparities in care
Class of 2022
Alice Crane, MD
MD: SUNY Buffalo
Residency: Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH
Research Interests: Mechanisms of antibody mediated rejection, ERAS for kidney transplant recipients
Class of 2021
Wen Yan Xie, MD
MD: University of Toronto
Residency: Western University, London, Ontario
Research Interests: Improving access to renal transplantation for disadvantaged patients
Maher Sraj, MD
MD: Beirut Arab University
Residency: Makassed Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
Research Interests: Impact of varying demographics and immunosuppression on renal transplant recipients
Graduates
Class of 2020
Naeem Goussous, MD
MD: Jordan University
Residency: St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore
Research Interests: Hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence in liver transplant recipients
Class of 2019
David St. Michel, DO
Transplant Surgeon
Hennepin County Medical Center
Minneapolis, MN
Class of 2018
Saad Malik, MD
Clinical Instructor
University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD
Class of 2017
Samuel Sultan, MD
Assistant Professor
Cornell University
New York, NY
Class of 2016
Eric Siskind
Attending Transplant Surgeon
Inova Fairfax
Falls Church, VA
Class of 2015
Gelu Osian
Transplant Surgeon
King Fahad Specialist Hospital
Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Class of 2014
Sunil Kardahar
Assistant Professor
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
Class of 2013
Shusant Chaudhary
Class of 2012
Josue Alvarez-Casas
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD
Class of 2011
David Aaronovitch
Transplant Surgeon
Hadassah-Ein Kerem
Jerusalem, Isreal