Congratulations to all of Surgical Education Programs on a successful Match in 2015. A special "thank you" to everyone that participated this year with our

interview process. This is the result of all your hard work, time and commitment to surgical education, especially to our program directors and

associate program directors - job well done!

-Juanita

Welcome Our New Housestaff Officers – June 25, 2015

James Clark Alicia Gingrich Sean Judge Jonathan Lin

Rush University University of Kansas Creighton University Medical College of Wisconsin

Amanda Phares Debi Thomas Kyle Thompson

UC Davis USC University of Texas, Houston

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Welcome Our New Housestaff Officers – June 25, 2015

General Surgery Categorical Military Residents

Kaeli Kluesner – A.T. Still University

Marguerite Winkler – University of Missouri - Columbia

Preliminary Residents Medical School

Peter Ballard George Washington University

Brittany Ballen

Jean-Gabriel Coignet Drexel University

Arielle Dumas U.C. Davis

Olga Garcia Kansas City University

Colby Gray Midwestern University

Nadia Guardado U.C. Davis

Scott Hulse USUHS

Caleb James Michigan State University

David Jung USUHS

Alexander Lo USUHS

Je Park USUHS

*Justin Badat Baylor College

*Weichen Xu USC

* Urology

Plastics Categorical Medical School

Ping Song Virginia Commonwealth University

Vascular Categorical

Cole Nishikawa Connor Caples

University of Hawaii USUHS

Cardiothoracic Categorical Medical School

Melissa Blaker Lake Erie College

of Osteopathic Medicine

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April 2015

Surgery School Dates 4/7 9:00am Critical Care, Part 1 of 3 10:00am Mock Orals 4/14 9:00am Pediatrics, Part 1 of 3 10:00am Master Surgeon - Laparoscopic Colectomy 4/21 9:00am Research Day Practice 4/28 9:00am Pediatrics, Part 2 of 3 10:00am Teaching

Surgery Grand Rounds

Date Speaker Topic

4/7 Caitlin Smith, MD The Surgeon Behind the

Instrument: An Abbreviated

History

4/14 Paul Perry, MD Mechanical Circulatory

Support: Past, Present and

Future

4/21 David Leshikar, MD Creating the Educated

Surgeon in the 21st Century

4/28 Thomas Krummel, MD Try Again...Fail Again…

Reinsch Visiting Lectureship Fail Better

Department of Surgery

F. William Blaisdell Surgical Education Programs

Chair

Diana Farmer, MD

Vice Chair, Education

General Surgery Residency

Program Director

Joseph Galante, MD

General Surgery Residency

Associate Program Director

Edgardo (Skeeter) Salcedo, MD

General Surgery Residency

Associate Program Director

Misty Humphries, MD

Program Manager

Juanita Braxton, PhD

Newsletter

Matt Lancara, MBA

UC Davis Department of Surgery

2221 Stockton Blvd

Sacramento, CA95817

Phone: 916-734-3528

Fax: 916-734-3951

http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/surgery

Important Dates

4/13 ABS packets due to Jennifer Damon and Dr. Galante for review and signature no later than 12 Noon. DO NOT CERTIFY APPLICATION ELECTRONICALLY 4/18 Mock Oral Exams 5/1 ABS Packets due to the American Board of Surgery 6/13 Chief Resident Graduation - 6-10pm Hyatt, Sac

6/15-23 New Housestaff Orientation

6/19 New Housestaff BBQ — MIND Institute

6/25 New Housestaff Start Date