The 2023 graduating class of surgical residents and fellows class with the UK College of Medicine Department of Surgery have shared their plans to either enter professional practice or continue into fellowship programs.
In addition to our residents matching into this country’s leading advanced surgery fellowships, the surgery separtment is also very proud that some of its new surgeons choose to locate their professional practice in Kentucky or in a region nearby.
GENERAL SURGERY:
Erika Almodovar, MD – will be going into general surgery practice with Baptist Health serving southeast Kentucky
Robert-Marlo Bautista, MD – will enter a minimally invasive surgery fellowship at UT Health in San Antonio, Texas
Roger Michael Cournoyer, MD – will enter a vascular surgery fellowship at the University of Kentucky
Vashisht Madabushi, MD – will enter a vascular surgery fellowship at the University of Maryland
Victoria “Tori” Wagner, MD – will enter a surgical critical care and trauma surgery fellowship at Emory University / Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Ga.
Matthew Wright, MBBS – will enter a fellowship in transplantation at the University of Minnesota
PLASTIC SURGERY
Christopher Kubajak, MD – will enter a fellowship in hand surgery at New York University
Chris Howell, MD – will enter a fellowship in microvascular reconstructive surgery at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
CT SURGERY
Rebecca Phillip, MD (Resident) – will be going into cardiac surgical practice at St. Peter’s Hospital in New Albany, N.Y.
Sheel Patel, DO (Fellow) – will be going into thoracic surgery practice at Roper St. Francis’ Health Care in Charleston, S.C.
COLON AND RECTAL SURGERY FELLOW
Samuel Walling, MD – will be going into private practice as a general surgeon/colon and rectal specialist in Louisville, Ky.
HAND SURGERY FELLOW
Jessica Winter, MD – will enter a microsurgery fellowship at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Following completion, Dr. Winter will join the plastic surgery faculty at the University of Manitoba
SURGICAL CRITICAL CARE FELLOW
Matthew A Turtzo, MD – is working out plans to enter trauma/critical care surgery practice
Brittany N. Wheelock, MD – will continue at the University of Kentucky as a trauma instructor
VASCULAR SURGERY FELLOW
Lauren Grimsley, MD – will join the University of Tennessee vascular and endovascular surgery faculty.
