Department Chair
Ronald J. Weigel, MD, PhD  

Acute Care Surgery Faculty

• Dionne Skeete, MD, Interim Director
• Kent Choi, MD
• Luis Garcia, MD
• Thomas Granchi, MD, MBA
• Prashant Khullar, MBBS, MS
• Patrick McGonagill, MD
• Jennifer G. Shanklin, MD
• Lucy A. Wibbenmeyer, MD

Cardiothoracic Surgery Faculty

• Kalpaj R. Parekh, MBBS, Director
• Evgeny Arshava, MD
• Mohammad Bashir, MD
• Jay K. Bhama, MD
• John Keech, MD, FACS
• Sharon B. Larson, MD
• Yuki Nakamura, MD
• Ali S. Nasr, MD, PhD, FACS
• ​Marco Ricci, MD

Gastrointestinal, Minimally-invasive and Bariatric Surgery Faculty

• John W. Cromwell, MD, Director
• Joseph J. Cullen, MD
• Irena Gribovskaja-Rupp, MD
• Jennifer Hrabe, MD
• Muneera R. Kapadia, MD
• Peter Nau, MD, MS
• Isaac Samuel, MD
• Jessica K. Smith, MD

General Surgery Located at Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids

• Sajida Ahad, MD, FACS
• Ibrahim B. Cetindag, MD
• Imran Hassan, MD, FACS
• Vincent Reid, MD
• Nora Royer, MD

Pediatric Surgery Faculty

• Joel Shilyansky, MD, Director  
• Erica Carlisle, MD
• Graeme J. Pitcher, MBChB
• Julia Shelton, MD, MPH

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Faculty

• W. Thomas Lawrence, MD, Director
• William Albright, MD
• Wei F. Chen, MD
• Mark D. Fisher, MD
• Patrick J. Hawkes, MD
• Jerrod Keith, MD
• Andrei Odobescu, MD

Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery Faculty

• James R. Howe V, MD, Director
• Carlos H. Chan, MD
• Lillian M. Erdahl, MD
• Edward Filardo, PhD
• Hisakazu Hoshi, MD
• Geeta Lal, MD, MSc
• Ingrid Lizarraga, MBBS​
• Sonia Sugg, MD
• Ronald J. Weigel, MD, PhD

Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery Faculty

• Alan Reed, MD, Director
• David Axelrod, MD, MBA, FACS
• Thomas E. Collins, MD
• Jody L. Jones, PhD
• Daniel A. Katz, MD

Vascular Surgery Faculty

• W. John Sharp, MD, Director
• Maen Aboul Hosn, MD
• Timothy F. Kresowik, MD
• Rachael M. Nicholson, MD
• Mel J. Sharafuddin, MD
• Natalie Weger, DO
• Jun Xu, MD