Alumni
Former Fellows & Their Current Appointment
Murray Girotti
(1983-84)
Died 2010, Professor of Surgery, University of Western Ontario
London, ON
Leonard Makowka
(1984-85)
Co-Chairman and President of Healtheatre.com
Demetrius Litwin
(1986-87)
Professor & Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts
MA
Steven Gallinger
(1987-88)
Professor, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Michel Dagenais
(1988-89)
Professor, Université de Montréal
Montréal, QC
Jameson Forster
(1988-89)
Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
Michael Abecassis
(1989-90)
Dean, College of Medicine; and Professor of Surgery, University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Patricia Sheiner
(1989-90)
Director, Transplantation Program, Hartford Healthcare
Hartford, CN
Jeffery Barkun
(1990-91)
Professor, McGill University
Montréal, QC
Scott Helton
(1990-91)
Director of Liver, Biliary, Pancreas Surgery, Virginia Mason Medical Cente
Seattle, WA
Claire Holloway
(1991-92)
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Andreas Paul
(1991-93)
Clinic for General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital
Essen, Germany
Pierre-Alain Clavien
(1992-94)
Professor, Universitat Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Stephen Chung
(1992-93)
Professor, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
Mark Taylor
(1993-94)
Chief of Professional Staff, Bluewater Health
Sarnia, ON
Reid Adams
(1994-95)
Professor, University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Al Hemming
(1994-96)
Professor, University of California
San Diego, CA
Ben Philosophe
(1995-97)
Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Ved Tandan
(1995-96)
Associate Professor, McMaster University
Hamilton, ON
Ravi Chari
(1996-98)
President, Hospital Corporation of America
Tampa, FL
Doug Quan
(1996-97)
Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario
London, ON
Tom Vandermere
(1997-98)
Guthrie Clinic
Sayre, PA
Tim Sielaff
(1997-98)
President, Virginia Piper Cancer Institute
Minneapolis, MN
Juan Sanabria
(1998-00)
Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Midwestern Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Ernest Beecherl
(1998-99)
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital
Dallas, TX
Dave Bigam
(1998-99)
Associate Professor, University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
Steve O’Neil
(1999-01)
Community Health Network
Greenwood, IN
Lee Gordon
(1999-00)
Professor, Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Deepak Dath
(2000-01)
Associate Professor, McMaster University
Hamilton, ON
Alison Ross
(2000-02)
Clinical Instructor at the University of British Columbia
Victoria, BC
Charles Vollmer
(2001-03)
Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Ian McGilvary
(2001-03)
Professor, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Elijah Dixon
(2001-02)
Professor, University of Calgary
Calgary, AB
Alice Wei
(2002-04)
Associate Attending Surgeon & Co-Director of Surgical Initiatives, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Michele Molinari
(2002-03)
Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS
Mark Walsh
(2002-04)
Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS
Robin D. Kim
(2003-05)
Associate Professor, University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Carol-Anne Moulton
(2003-04)
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Seisuke Sakamoto
(2003-04)
Director of Transplant Surgery, Organ Transplantation Center, National Center for Child Health and Development
Tokyo, Japan
Shimul A. Shah
(2004-06)
Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
Zoltan Mathe
(2004-06)
Head of Department, Semmelweis University
Budapest, Hungary
P.C. Cheow
(2004-05)
Director, Liver Transplant Program, Singapore General Hospital
Singapore
Sean Cleary
(2005-06)
Consultant, Professor of Surgery
Chair, Division of Hepatobiliary & Pancreas Surgery, Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Markus Selzner
(2005-07)
Professor, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Anand Ghanekar
(2006-08)
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Derek DuBay
(2006-08)
Associate Professor, University of Alabama
Birmingham, AL
Mike Hogan
(2006-07)
Assistant Professor, Memorial University
St. John’s, NL
Shawn MacKenzie
(2006-07)
Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center
Portland, OR
Markus Guba
(2007-09)
Professor, Universität München
Germany
Sulaiman Nanji
(2007-09)
Assistant Professor, Queen’s University
Kingston, ON
Charbel Sandroussi
(2008-10)
Associate Professor, University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Rodrigo Iñiguez-Ducci
(2008-09)
Profesor Asistente, Cirugia Pediatrica, Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Hamad Al-Bahili
(2008-10)
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Trevor Reichman
(2009-11)
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
George Zogopolous
(2009-11)
Assistant Professor, McGill University
Montréal, QC
Serene Perkins
(2009-10)
Legacy Hospital
Portland, OR
Adrian Fox
(2009-11)
St. Vincent’s Hospital and Angliss Hospital
Melbourne, Australia
Sylvester Black
(2010-12)
Assistant Professor, University of Ohio
Athens, OH
David Cavalucci
(2010-12)
Royal Brisbane Hospital
Brisbane, Australia
Peter Kim
(2010-12)
Assistant Professor, Baylor University Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Ehab Rafael
(2011-12)
Skane University Hospital
Malmo, Sweden
Markus Boehnert
(2011-13)
Associate Professor of Surgery, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Pablo Serrano Aybar
(2011-13)
Assistant Professor, McMaster University
Hamilton, ON
John Seal
(2012-14)
Ochsner Medical Center
New Orleans, LA
Rory Smoot
(2012-14)
Associate Professor, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, MN
John Conneely
(2012-14)
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and University College
Dublin, Ireland
Maja Segedi
(2012-14)
Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
Siong-Seng Liau
(2013)
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Jerome Laurence
(2013-15)
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Amelie Tremblay St. Germain
(2013-15)
University of Montréal
Québec City, QC
Gonzalo Sapisochin
(2014-15)
Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Martin Dib
(2015-16)
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Andrew Barbas
(2014-16)
Assistant Professor, Duke University
Durham, NC
Koji Tomiyama
(2014-16)
Associate Professor, University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
Ben Loveday
(2014-16)
HPB Surgical Oncologist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Victoria, Australia
David Al-Adra
(2015-17)
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
Nicolas Goldaracena
(2015-17)
Associate Professor, University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville, VA
Carlo Pulitano
(2016-18)
Associate Professor, University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Juan Echeverri
(2016-18)
Assistant Professor, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla
Santander, Spain
Joshua Shaw
(2016-18)
Staff Surgeon of Transplant and HPB Surgery, Cleveland Clinic (Weston)
Weston, FL
Nathan Zilbert
(2016-18)
Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Blayne A. Sayed
(2017-19)
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Robin Visser
(2017-19)
Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB
Lawrence Lau
(2017-19)
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Hofstra/Northwell
Manhasset, NY
Graziano Oldani
(2018-19)
Assistant Professor, Geneva University Hospitals
Geneva, Switzerland
Ashley Limkemann
(2018-20)
Transplant surgeon, Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
Columbus, OH
Christopher Shubert
(2018-20)
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Sanju Sobnach
(2018-20)
Specialist Surgeon, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Chaya Shwaartz
(2019-21)
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Madhukar Patel
(2019-21)
Assistant Professor of Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Nathanael Raschzok
(2019-21)
Associate Professor, Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Rushin Brahmbhatt
(2021-22)
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Penn State University, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
University Park, PA
Eyad Issa
(2020-22)
Consultant Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgeon (HPB), Glenfield General Hospital
Leicester, UK
Alejandro Torres Hernandez
(2020-22)
Michael Bleszynski
(2020-22)
Liver/Pancreas Transplant and HPB Surgeon, Vancouver General Hospital
Vancouver, BC
David Henault
(2021-23)
Casey Ward
(2021-23)
