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Residents

Current Residents

PGY-5 Residents

Connor Byrne, MD

Medical School: University of California, Irvine SoM
Undergraduate: University of California Berkeley 
Hometown: Orinda, CA

Evan Nigh, MD

Medical School: University of Miami Leonard M. Miller SoM
Undergraduate: Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA
Hometown: Billings, MT

Zachary Rockov, MD

Medical School: University of Arizona College of Medicine
Undergraduate: University of Arizona 
Hometown: Tucson, AZ

PGY-4 Residents

Ryan Finkel, MD

Medical School: New York Medical College
Undergraduate: Johns Hopkins University 
Hometown: Oradell, NJ

Lukas Foster, MD

Medical School: Creighton University School of Medicine
Undergraduate: Colorado State University 
Hometown: Valencia, CA

Harin Parikh, MD

Medical School: University of Colorado School of Medicine
Undergraduate: UCLA 
Hometown: Elk Grove, CA

Adam Wright-Chisem, MD

Medical School: University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Undergraduate: Morehouse College 
Hometown: Chicago, Il

PGY-3 Residents

Mackenzie Bird, MD

Medical School: Tulane University School of Medicine
Undergraduate: Vanderbilt University 
Hometown: Larchmont, NY 

Christian “Christy” Blough, MD

Medical School: Ohio State University College of Medicine 
Undergraduate: Ohio State University
Hometown: Ontario, NY

Carol Lee, MD

Medical School: Case Western Reserve University SoM
Undergraduate: University of California, Berkeley
Hometown: Glendora, CA

Jawad Najdawi, MD

Medical School: Creighton University School of Medicine
Undergraduate: Creighton University 
Hometown: Iowa City, IA

PGY-2 Residents

Jalen Dansby, MD

Medical School: Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons—Columbia University
Undergraduate: Vanderbilt University
Hometown: Dallas, Texas

Alfonso Ocampo, MD

Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Undergraduate: Stanford University
Hometown: Waukesha, Wisconsin

Samuel Raszka, MD

Medical School: Larner College of Medicine—University of Vermont
Undergraduate: University of Vermont
Hometown: Charlotte, Vermont

Katherine Sborov, MD

Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Undergraduate: Vanderbilt University
Hometown: Pleasanton, California

PGY-1 Residents

Amanda Cao, MD

Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Undergraduate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri

Zachery Hong, MD

Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Undergraduate: Washington University in St. Louis
Hometown: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Jourdan Meltzer, MD

Medical School: Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University
Undergraduate: Brown University
Hometown: Oakland, California

Rebisi Owhonda, MD

Medical School: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine
Undergraduate: University of Florida
Hometown: Fort Worth, Texas

Violette Simon, MD, MS

Medical School: University of Colorado School of Medicine
Undergraduate: University of San Diego
Hometown: Glendale, California

Current Fellows

Kelsey Bonilla, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship
Kevin Fox, DO
Joint Reconstruction Fellowship
David Gregory, DO
Joint Reconstruction Fellowship
Cameron Murphy, MD
Spine Fellowship
Andres Piscoya, MD
Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Fellowship
Karim Shafi, MD
Spine Fellowship
Kimberly Souza, MD
The Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Hand and Upper Extremity Surgical

Alumni Residents

Class of 2023
  • Michael Eng, MD
    Fellow, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
  • Lee Haruno, MD
    Fellow, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Ian Schroeder, MD
    Serving in Army as General Orthopaedist at Landstuhl, Germany until 2026
  • Juntian "Johnny" Wang, MD
    Fellow, Allegheny Hospital, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
  • Christopher Johnson, MD
    Fellow, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, California
  • Ali Noorzad, MD
    Fellow, Steadman Philippon Research Institute, Vail, Colorado
  • Landon Polakof, MD
    Fellow, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, California
  • Stephen Stephan, MD
    Fellow, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York City, New York
  • Michael Sun, MD
    Fellow, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Tonya An, MD
    Fellow, Hospital for Special Surgery Foot and Ankle, New York, New York
  • Phillip Behrens, MD
    Fellow, Washington University Spine Surgery, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Samuel Stephenson, MD
    Fellow, University of California, San Diego Trauma, San Diego, California
  • Eytan Debbi, MD
    Fellow, Hospital for Special Surgery Adult Reconstruction, New York, New York
  • John Garlich, MD
    Fellow, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
  • Derek Ju, MD
    Fellow, Rothman Orthopaedic Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Naudereh Noori, MD
    Fellow, Medstar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Dheeraj Yalamanchili, MD
    Fellow, Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute, Los Angeles, California
  • Erin Haggerty, MD
    Fellow, University of California, Davis/Reno Orthopaedic Clinic Foot and Ankle, Sacramento, California / Fellow, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
  • Zachary NaPier, MD
    Fellow, Harvard Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Fellowship, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Max Michalski, MD
    Fellow, Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Have Questions or Need Help?

Contact us if you have questions or would like to learn more about the Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program at Cedars-Sinai.

Stacey Wilson, C-TAGME - stacey.wilson3@cshs.org
Orthopaedic Surgery Program Manager
Cedars-Sinai Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Lorin Williams - lorin.williams@cshs.org
Orthopaedic Surgery Program Coordinator

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