Meet the Faculty
Leadership
Pierre Saldinger, MD
Chairman
Hepatobiliary Surgery and Surgical Oncology
Bariatric surgery
- Stephen Merola, MD
- Joel Ricci-Gorbea, MD — Associate Program Director
General surgery
- Talat Addasi, MD
- Bruna Babic — General and Endocrine Surgery
- LiTong Du, MD
- James Satterfield, MD
Colon and rectal surgery
- Christopher Foglia, MD — Program Director
- Steven Chao, MD
- Howard Tiszenkel, MD
Surgical critical care/trauma surgery
- Jason Sample, MD, FACS
- Michael Coomaraswamy, MD
- Daniel Hagler, MD
- Miroslav Kopp, DO
- Konstantin Khariton, DO
- Chun-Cheng Chen, MD, PhD
Vascular surgery
Breast surgery
Thoracic surgery
Pediatric surgery
In addition to the above listed faculty and staff, the general surgery residents work closely with private general, plastic and reconstructive, and ENT surgeons.