Providence General Surgery Residency Program - Core Teaching Faculty 2008

The Department of Surgery at Providence Hospital has over 275 active members. There are 17 full-time teaching surgeons in the program, as well as a full-time chairman (Dr. Laurence Cheung ) who is responsible for the quality of care in the various surgical specialty sections. A salaried program director (Dr. Vijay Mittal), associate program director (Dr. Alasdair McKendrick) and an assistant program director (Dr. William Oppat ) work together to coordinate the teaching programs, the assignments of the teaching staff, and the specific day-to-day activities of the surgical residents. The department also employs a research coordinator (Dr. Jeffrey C. Flynn) part time to assist the residents with their scholarly research activities. All of the full-time faculty have teaching positions with Wayne State University.

Name	Field of Interest	Residency
Tamer N. Boules, MD	Vascular Surgery	University of Michigan Hospitals (Ann Arbor, MI)
Laurence Y. Cheung, MD	Acute Abdomen	University of Utah Hospital (Salt Lake City, UT)
Amir Damadi, MD	Colorectal Surgery	Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
Ernesto R. Drelichman, MD	Colorectal Surgery	Providence Hospital & Medical Centers
Linda M. Dubay, MD	General & Breast Surgery	Providence Hospital & Medical Centers
Lorenzo Ferguson, MD	Endocrine Surgery	Providence Hospital & Medical Centers
Jeffrey C. Flynn, PhD	Autoimmune Thyroid Diseases	Wayne State University
Gary R. Goodman, MD	Thoracic Surgery	North Shore University Hospital (Miami, FL)
Yousif H. Goriel, MD	General Surgery	Providence Hospital & Medical Centers
Edward A. Itawi, MD	Colorectal Surgery	Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies (Kalamazoo, MI)
Michael J. Jacobs, MD	General Surgery	Providence Hospital & Medical Centers
Ramachandra Kolachalam, MD	Laparoscopic Surgery	Providence Hospital & Medical Centers
Michael W. Lee, MD	Thoracic Surgery	Mercy Hospital (Pittsburgh, PA)
Alasdair I. McKendrick, MD	Colorectal Surgery	Royal College of Medicine and Surgery, Scotland
Vijay K. Mittal, MD	Transplant & Trauma Surgery	Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital (Detroit, MI)
Kevin D. Nolan, MD	Vascular Surgery	Northwestern University Medical School (Chicago, IL)
William F. Oppat, MD	Vascular Surgery	Northwestern University Hospital (Chicago, IL)
Paraskevi Orfanou, MD	General Surgery	Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit, MI)
Ralph D. Pearlman, MD	Colorectal Surgery	Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit, MI)
Pritham P. Reddy, MD	Vascular Surgery	St. John Hospital and Medical Center (Detroit, MI)
Sumet Silapaswan, MD	Oncology & Endocrinology	Roswell Park Medical Center (Buffalo, NY)

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Providence General Surgery Residency Program - Core Teaching Faculty 2008