Upstate Medical University - General Surgery Residency Program Alumni

Distinguished Alumni

Our program has a longstanding and proud history of training leaders in surgery. Numerous graduates from our training program have left our program and gone on to have impactful careers locally as well as nationally. Please find some information on some of our distinguished alumni below.

		*Patricia J. Numann, MD, FACS* Upstate Chief Resident in Surgery - 1970 Professor Emerita Upstate Medical University - Norton College of Medicine / Syracuse, NY Past President - American College of Surgeons Former Chair - American Board of Surgery Past President and Founder - Association of Women Surgeons Past President and Founder - Association for Surgical Education

		*Naji Abou-Mourad, MD, FACS* Upstate Chief Resident in Surgery - 1976 Chair Emeritus & Professor of Surgery Vanderbilt University Medical Center / Nashville, TN Vice Chair for Mentoring, Section of Surgical Sciences

		*Thomas M. Scalea, MD, FACS, FCCM* Upstate Chief Resident in Surgery - 1983 Honorable Francis X. Kelly Distinguished Professor of Trauma Surgery Professor of Surgery University of Maryland School of Medicine / Baltimore, MD Physician-in-Chief, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center

		*Ralph Mosca, MD* Upstate Chief Resident in Surgery - 1990 Henry H. Arnhold Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery New York University - Grossman School of Medicine / New York, NY Director - Congenital Heart Program at Hassenfeld Children's Hospital Division Chief - Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiac Surgery

		*Mark Iannettoni, MD, MBA, FACS* Upstate Chief Resident in Surgery - 1991 W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr, MD Distinguished Chair Professor of Surgery - Department of Cardiovascular Science East Carolina University / Greenville, NC Associate Program Director, Thoracic Surgery Residency

		*Sunita Srivastava, MD, FACS* Upstate Chief Resident in Surgery - 1996 Assistant Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School / Boston, MA Director of Quality, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, MGH

		*Castigliano Bhamidipati, DO, PhD, MSc, FACS, FACC* Upstate Chief Resident in Surgery - 2015 Associate Professor of Surgery - Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Oregon Health Science University / Portland, OR Quality Medical Director of the Knight Cardiovascular Institute