Faculty and Teaching Staff

Leadership

Bruce Gewertz MD Surgeon-in-Chief, Chair of the Department of Surgery and Vice President for Interventional Services H & S Nichols Chair in Surgery	Edward Phillips MD FACS Executive Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery and Chief, Division of General Surgery Director, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program Director, Weight Loss Center Karl Storz Chair in Minimally Invasive Surgery in Honor of Dr. George Berci
William Warren Brien MD Executive Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedic Center	Andrew L. Freedman MD FAAP Vice Chair, Pediatric Surgical Services Director, Pediatric Urology
Gerhard J. Fuchs MD, FACS Director, Minimally Invasive Urology Program Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery Co-Director, Cedars-Sinai Urology Center Program Director, Urology Residency Medallion Group Chair in Minimally Invasive Urology	Andrew S. Klein MD, FACS, MBA Director, Comprehensive Transplant Center Esther and Mark Schulman Chair in Surgery and Transplantation Medicine
Randy Sherman MD FACS Vice Chair, Department of Surgery	Donald Dafoe MD Director, Pancreas Transplantation Eris M. Field Chair in Diabetes Research
Daniel R. Margulies MD, FACS Director, Trauma Services; Director, Surgical Critical Care Unit; and Associate Director, Division of General Surgery	Shirin Towfigh MD FACS Attending Surgeon Director, Medical Student Education Program
Ali Salim MD Attending Surgeon Program Director, General Surgery Residency Educational Program	David A. Kulber MD FACS Clinical Chief, Cedars-Sinai's Department of Surgery Director, Cedars-Sinai's Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Director, Plastic Surgery Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Group

General Surgery

Kenneth W. Adashek MD FACS Surgery	Alexander Allins MD General Surgery
Lisa Cassileth MD Plastic Surgeon, Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	Alice Chung MD Surgical Oncology
Scott Cunneen MD Co-Director, Bariatric Surgery	Catherine M. Dang MD Associate Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program
David Fermelia MD General Surgeon, Cedars-Sinai Medical Group, Cedars-Sinai Health Associates, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center, Department of Surgery	Armando E. Giuliano MD, FACS, FRCSEd Executive Vice Chair of Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery Associate Director, Surgical Oncology, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute Co-Director, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild
Leo A. Gordon MD, FACS Surgery	Neel Joshi MD General Surgeon
Scott Karlan MD FACS Director, Physician Education, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild	Eric Ley MD, FACS Surgeon, Trauma Services
Sergey Lyass MD Surgeon, Cedars-Sinai Weight Loss Center	Daniel R. Margulies MD, FACS Director, Trauma Services; Director, Surgical Critical Care Unit; and Associate Director, Division of General Surgery
Leslie Memsic MD FACS Surgical Oncologist	Edward Phillips MD FACS Executive Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery and Chief, Division of General Surgery Director, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program Director, Weight Loss Center Karl Storz Chair in Minimally Invasive Surgery in Honor of Dr. George Berci
Allan W. Silberman MD PhD FACS Surgical Oncologist Robert J. and Suzanne Gottlieb Chair in Surgical Oncology	Jerrold H. Steiner MD FACS Co-Director, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild
Gregory K. Tsushima MD General Surgeon, Cedars-Sinai Medical Group, Cedars-Sinai Health Associates	Shirin Towfigh MD FACS Attending Surgeon Director, Medical Student Education Program

• Moses Fallas MD
  Surgery
  
• Gary N. Furman MD, FACS
  Medical Coordinator, Weight Loss Center
  

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Wen Cheng MD Director, Thoracic Surgery Residency Program Surgical Director, Lung Transplant Program Co-Director, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery	Fardad Esmailian MD Surgical Director, Heart Transplant and Ventricular Assist Device Program
Robert M. Kass MD Surgical Director, Heart Transplant Program	Ali Khoynezhad MD, PhD, FACS, FACC Director, Thoracic Aortic Surgery Associate Professor, Surgery
Harmik J. Soukiasian MD Associate Director, Thoracic Surgery	Alfredo Trento MD Director, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Estelle, Abe, and Marjorie Sanders Chair in Cardiac Surgery

Colorectal Surgery

Liza M. Capiendo MD Attending Surgeon, Colorectal Cancer Center; Anorectal Disorders Program; Department of Surgery	Eiman Firoozmand MD Chief, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Phillip Fleshner MD Program Director, Colorectal Surgery Fellowship Shierley, Jesslyne, and Emmeline Widjaja Chair in Colorectal Surgery	Gary Hoffman MD Attending Surgeon, Division of Colorectal Surgery
Mari Madsen MD Colorectal Surgery	Beth A. Moore MD Colorectal Surgery
Zuri Akida Murrell MD Director, Colorectal Cancer Center	Thomas P. Sokol MD FACS FASCRS Attending Surgeon, Division of Colorectal Surgery

Minimally Invasive Surgery Center

Miguel Burch MD Associate Director of General Surgery and Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery	Scott Cunneen MD Co-Director, Bariatric Surgery
Daniel R. Margulies MD, FACS Director, Trauma Services; Director, Surgical Critical Care Unit; and Associate Director, Division of General Surgery	Edward Phillips MD FACS Executive Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery and Chief, Division of General Surgery Director, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program Director, Weight Loss Center Karl Storz Chair in Minimally Invasive Surgery in Honor of Dr. George Berci
Ali Salim MD Attending Surgeon Program Director, General Surgery Residency Educational Program	Harmik J. Soukiasian MD Associate Director, Thoracic Surgery
Shirin Towfigh MD FACS Attending Surgeon Director, Medical Student Education Program

Ophthalmology

Homayon Ghiasi MD Director, Viral Immunology and Vaccine Development Center, Ophthalmology Research Laboratories	Alexander V. Ljubimov PhD Director, Ophthalmology Research Laboratories
Yaron Rabinowitz MD Director, Ophthalmology Research	David Savar MD Ophthalmology

Oral Surgery and Dentistry

Denis M. Weintraub DDS Clinical Chief, Dentistry; Co-Director, Craniofacial Surgery; Co-Director, Residency Training Program

Orthopaedic Surgery

Sonu Ahluwalia MD Clinical Chief, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery	Neel Anand MD, Mch Orth Orthopaedic Spine Surgery
Earl Warren Brien MD Director, Musculoskeletal Tumor Service	William Warren Brien MD Executive Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedic Center
Myles J. Cohen MD Director, Hand and Upper Extremity Reconstructive Surgery	Rick B. Delamarter MD Vice Chair for Spine Services, Department of Surgery Co-Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Spine Center
William M. Hohl MD Associate Director, Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery	Leonel A. Hunt MD Orthpaedic Spine Sugery
J. Patrick Johnson MD Neurosurgery	David A. Kulber MD FACS Clinical Chief, Cedars-Sinai's Department of Surgery Director, Cedars-Sinai's Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Director, Plastic Surgery Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Group
Charles N. Moon MD Associate Director, Orthopaedic Trauma	Glenn B. Pfeffer MD Co-Director, Cedars-Sinai/USC School of Theater Dance Medicine Center Director, Foot and Ankle Program, Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedic Center
Andrew I. Spitzer MD Director, Joint Replacement Program	Donald A. Wiss MD Director, Orthopaedic Trauma

Otolaryngology

Babak Larian MD Director, Head and Neck Cancer Center

Madison F. Richardson MD Clinical Chief of Otolaryngology

Pediatric Surgery

Steve Chen MD FACS Walter and Shirley Wang Chair in Pediatric Surgery Pediatric Surgery	Philip K. Frykman MD PhD Associate Director, Pediatric Surgery
Kasper Wang MD FACS FAAP Surgeon, Pediatric Surgical Services

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Andrew T. Cohen MD Division Chief, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	Sheryl Lewin MD Surgery
Dung Hoang Nguyen MD, PharmD Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery

Podiatric Surgery

Jeffrey A. Klemes DPM Director, Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Residency Program

Research Faculty

Farin Amersi MD Surgical Oncologist	Homayon Ghiasi MD Director, Viral Immunology and Vaccine Development Center, Ophthalmology Research Laboratories
Alexander V. Ljubimov PhD Director, Ophthalmology Research Laboratories	Gordon Wu MD Director, Transplant Immunobiology Laboratory

Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center

Catherine M. Dang MD Associate Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program	Scott Karlan MD FACS Director, Physician Education, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild
Edward Phillips MD FACS Executive Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery and Chief, Division of General Surgery Director, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program Director, Weight Loss Center Karl Storz Chair in Minimally Invasive Surgery in Honor of Dr. George Berci

Surgical Critical Care

Alexander Allins MD General Surgery	Marko Bukur MD Trauma/Critical Care
Scott Cunneen MD Co-Director, Bariatric Surgery	Darren J. Malinoski MD, FACS Director, Surgical Critical Care Medical Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit Director, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship
Daniel R. Margulies MD, FACS Director, Trauma Services; Director, Surgical Critical Care Unit; and Associate Director, Division of General Surgery

Surgical Oncology

Farin Amersi MD Surgical Oncologist	Alice Chung MD Surgical Oncology
Catherine M. Dang MD Associate Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program	Armando E. Giuliano MD, FACS, FRCSEd Executive Vice Chair of Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery Associate Director, Surgical Oncology, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute Co-Director, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild
Scott Karlan MD FACS Director, Physician Education, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild	Edward Phillips MD FACS Executive Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery and Chief, Division of General Surgery Director, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program Director, Weight Loss Center Karl Storz Chair in Minimally Invasive Surgery in Honor of Dr. George Berci
Allan W. Silberman MD PhD FACS Surgical Oncologist Robert J. and Suzanne Gottlieb Chair in Surgical Oncology

Thoracic Surgery

Clark B. Fuller MD Thoracic Surgeon	Ali Mahtabifard MD Thoracic Surgery
Robert McKenna Jr MD Medical Director, Thoracic Surgery and Trauma Co-Director, Women's Guild Lung Institute Surgical Director, Women's Guild Lung Institute Program Director, General Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Surgical Director, Women's Guild Lung Institute at Cedars-Sinai	Harmik J. Soukiasian MD Associate Director, Thoracic Surgery

Transplant Surgery

J. Louis Cohen MD Surgical Director, Kidney Transplant Program Medical Director, Operating Room Services	Steven D. Colquhoun MD FACS Surgical Director, Liver Transplantation
Donald Dafoe MD Director, Pancreas Transplantation Eris M. Field Chair in Diabetes Research	Jeffrey H. Fair MD Director of Translational Research, Comprehensive Transplant Center
Andrew S. Klein MD, FACS, MBA Director, Comprehensive Transplant Center Esther and Mark Schulman Chair in Surgery and Transplantation Medicine	Nicholas Nissen MD Surgeon, Comprehensive Transplant Center

Trauma Surgery

Alexander Allins MD General Surgery	Marko Bukur MD Trauma/Critical Care
Scott Cunneen MD Co-Director, Bariatric Surgery	Scott Karlan MD FACS Director, Physician Education, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild
Daniel R. Margulies MD, FACS Director, Trauma Services; Director, Surgical Critical Care Unit; and Associate Director, Division of General Surgery

Urological Surgery

Barry P. Duel MD FAAP FACS Associate Director, Pediatric Urology Faculty, Urology Residency	Andrew L. Freedman MD FAAP Vice Chair, Pediatric Surgical Services Director, Pediatric Urology
Gerhard J. Fuchs MD, FACS Director, Minimally Invasive Urology Program Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery Co-Director, Cedars-Sinai Urology Center Program Director, Urology Residency Medallion Group Chair in Minimally Invasive Urology	Hyung Lae Kim MD Associate Director, Surgical Research, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute Director, Academic Programs, Urology
Christopher S. Ng MD Urology

Vascular Surgery

J. Louis Cohen MD Surgical Director, Kidney Transplant Program Medical Director, Operating Room Services	David Cossman MD, FACS Director, Vascular Trauma Medical Director, Vascular Laboratory Education Director, Vascular Laboratory Member, Cedars-Sinai Spine Center
Bruce Gewertz MD Surgeon-in-Chief, Chair of the Department of Surgery and Vice President for Interventional Services H & S Nichols Chair in Surgery	Willis Wagner MD Clinical Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery Clinical Director, Vascular Laboratory

Dentistry

• Alan Kaye, DDS

General Surgery

• George Berci, MD
• Brendan Boland, MD
• Brendan Carroll, MD
• Humerto Martinez, MD
• Moussa Moshfegh, MD
• Ricardo Navas, MD
• Daniel Schibler, MD
• Robert Uyeda, MD

Minimally Invasive Surgery Center

• George Berci, MD

Oncology - Surgery

• Anton Bilchik, MD

Oral Surgery and Dentistry 

• Irving S. Lebovics, DDS

Orthopaedic Surgery 

• Anthony Alter, MD

Urology

• Jennifer Anger, MD

Vascular Surgery 

• Rhoda Leichter, MD
• Ed Li, MD
• Rajeev K. Rao, MD