The following goals of the Department of Surgery are in harmony with the stated purposes and philosophy of Loma Linda University School of Medicine:

  1. Provide the highest standard of surgical patient care.
  2. Maintain educational programs in the surgical disciplines for medical students, residents, and fellows.
  3. Provide facilities for laboratory and clinical research in the areas of surgical interest.

Chair

Sharon S Lum

Vice chair

Afshin M. Molkara

Mark Reeves

Jorge Rivera

Naveenraj Solomon

Division of Acute Care Surgery

Kaushik Mukherjee, Head

Division of Colorectal Surgery

Fabrizio Luca, Head

Division of General Surgery

Keith Scharg, Interim Head

Division of Pediatric Surgery

Donald C. Moores, Head

Trauma Division

Fabrizio Luca, Head

Division of Vascular Surgery

Ahmed Abu-Zamzam

Primary faculty

Jose Acosta

John Agapian

Allison Aka

Matthew Albert

Paul Albini

Timothy Allison-Aipa

Chris Anderson

Carlos Balarezo

Abigail Benitez

Aleksander Bernshteyn

Christian Bianchi

Scott Bloom

Alyssa Bonta

Charles Bratton

Megan Brenner

Sigrid Burruss

Richard D. Catalano

Kristen Chaves

Jeffrey Chiu

Megan Cochran-Yu

Raul Coimbra

Justin Daggett

Marcus Darrabie

Joseph Davis

Stephanie Downing

Sara Edwards

William Eubanks

Sebastian de la Fuente

Daniel Galante

Carlos Garberoglio

Norbert Garcia-Henriquez

Nephtali Gomez

Ryan Hayton

Victor Joe

Aarthy Kannappan

Faraz Khan

Faisal Khan

Sharon Kiang

Thersia Knapik

Arputharaj Kore

Wanda Lam

Kelly Lara

Kenneth Lawson

Alicia Lay

Beatriz Leong

Arega Leta

Wei-Te Li

Fabrizio Luca

H. Daniel Ludi

Sharon Lum

Xian Luo-Owen

Kristyn Mannoia

Pratik Mehta

Lester Mohr

Afshin Molkara

John Monson

Donald Moores

Llesenia Mora

Gamal Mostafa

Kaushik Mukherjee

Allen Murga

Jukes Namm

Minh-Tri Nguyen

Andre Nguyen

Andrew Nguyen

Michael O'Leary

Christopher Olukoga

Bruce Orkin

Sheela Patel

Robert Pereyra-Suarez

Minh-Tri Pham

Tram Phan

Sommer Phillips

Alexis Plasencia

Jeffrey Quigley

Andrei Radulescu

Mark Reeves

Reyna Gonzalez

Jorge Rivera

Antonio Robles

Shana Rogers

Martin Rosenthal

Keith Scharf

Catherine Schell

Matthew Selleck

James Simpson

Naveenraj Solomon

Daniel Srikureja

Noah Swann

Lourdes Swentek

Maryam Bita Tabrizi

Arnold Tabuenca

Derya Tagge

Matthew Tan

Theodore Teruya

William Thompson

David Turay

Enrique Vega

Michael E. de Vera

Edward P. Tagge

Noel Victor

Halley Vora

On Wang

Georg Wiese

Alan Wladis

Jakub Woloszyn

David Wong

John Woods

Esther Wu

Kristine Zmaj

Secondary faculty

Ihab Dorotta

Alan Herford

Walter Johnson

Padma Uppala

Nathan Wall

Emeritus faculty

Lloyd Dayes

Robert Rowe

Louis Smith

Ralph Thompson