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Our Team

We offer three categorical General Surgery residency positions per year.
​Additionally, we accept four preliminary residents for PGY-1 and PGY-2 yearly. 
​Lincoln Hospital also offers a one year Surgical Critical Care Fellowship.

PGY-5

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Jamie Ashe, MD
Hometown: New York, New York

Medical School: Sophie Davis/
New York Medical College


Career Plans: Critical Care

​Favorite thing about Lincoln: The people
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Penser Cardenas, MD
Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona

Medical School: Universidad Autonoma De Guadalajara

Career Plans: Plastic Surgery

Favorite thing about Lincoln: Towers Cafe

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Fun fact: I have “double-jointed” thumbs
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Adriana Santiago Marrero, MD
Hometown: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Medical School: University of Puerto Rico 

Career Plans: Breast Surgery

Favorite thing about Lincoln: My coworkers! 

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Fun fact: I’ve visited 14 countries and am working on more
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​Arfry Marcelino, MD
Hometown: Santiago, Dominican Republic

Medical School: Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE)

Career Plans: Critical Care

Favorite thing about Lincoln: Our patients and all the residents. 

​Fun fact: I sometimes don't understand sarcasm

PGY-4

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Britny L. Keith, MD
Hometown: White Plains, New York

Medical School: New York Medical College

Career Plans: Vascular Surgery or Hand Surgery

Favorite thing about Lincoln: The Residents

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Fun fact: I had polydactyly
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Roberto Rivero Soto, MD
Hometown: Maracaibo, Venezuela

Medical School: Aureus University Aruba

Career Plans: Still deciding

Favorite thing about Lincoln: Multicultural experience, hands on experience

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Fun fact: I don’t sweat
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Kerri-Anne Vlaming, MD
Hometown: Ottawa, Canada

Medical School: St. George's University

Career Plans: Becoming more vague every year…

Favorite thing about Lincoln: We’re a family

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Fun fact:  I used to work as a NICU nurse

PGY-3

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Paul J. Fine, MD
Hometown: Parkland, Florida

Medical School: St. George's University

Career Plans: Colorectal Surgery

​Favorite thing about Lincoln: Trauma surgery exposure

Fun fact: I am a rescue diver

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Elizabeth Ginelli, MD
Hometown: West Covina, California

Medical School: University of California San Francisco

Career Plans: Trauma/Critical Care

Favorite thing about Lincoln: My co-residents!

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Fun fact: I’ve ridden an ostrich
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Tarek Khrisat, MD
Hometown: As-Salt, Jordan

Medical School: University of Jordan

Career Plans: Vascular Surgery

​Favorite thing about Lincoln: Lots of trauma!


PGY-2

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Felix Alcantara, MD
Hometown: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Medical School: Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE)

Career Plans: Undecided

Favorite thing about Lincoln: Support from my faculty and senior residents. I also love random dinners organized by staff members in different areas of the hospital

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Fun fact: I had a hedgehog named Peach
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Alexander G. Mercado, MD
Hometown: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Medical School: Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE)

Career Plans: Vascular Surgery

Favorite thing about Lincoln: My Coworkers 

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Fun fact: I can do magic tricks
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Jigesh Patel, MD
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia

Medical School: St. George's University

Career Plans: Trauma/Vascular

Favorite thing about Lincoln: Everyone I work with

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Fun fact: Unofficial IT support
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Isabel Dos Santos Marques, MD​
Hometown: Curitiba, Brazil

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Medical School: ​​Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Career Plans: General Surgery

Favorite thing about Lincoln: the people
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Cheng Ying (David) Wu, MD
Hometown: Vancouver, Canada

Medical School: Ross
University


Career Plans: Critical Care, Endocrine, or MIS

Favorite thing about Lincoln: Supportive attendings, co-residents and nursing staffs

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Fun fact: I sometimes drink coffee with OJ. Generally have a good sense of when nurses having food party. Casual video gamer and pianist
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Rodrigo Olvera Collins, MD​
Hometown: Monterrey, Mexico

Medical School: Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon School of Medicine

Career Plans: General Surgery

​Fun fact: People consider me funny in Spanish

PGY-1

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Abdelrahman Akram Habiba, MD
Hometown: Alexandria, Egypt

Medical School: Alexandria University/Toulouse Paul Sabatier

Career Plans: General Surgery

Favorite thing about Lincoln: Volume of cases & staff

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Fun fact: I sneeze when I’m nervous
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Lord C. Mvoula, MD
Hometown: Houston/Katy, Texas (Born Brazzaville, Congo)

Medical School: UT Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine

Career Plans: Trauma Surgery vs Thoracic Surgery

​Fun Fact: I love video games
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Maxwell Poirier, MD
Hometown: Stuart, Florida 

Medical School: St. George’s University

Career Plans: Right now, survive intern year 

Favorite thing about Lincoln: We have such a great group of surgical residents and attendings. It really helps to be in program where you feel supported, listened to and educated by individuals who truly care about you as a person

​Fun fact: I have a 5 year old beagle mix named Remy and my world outside of the hospital revolves around her
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Mohammed Bohan, MD
Hometown: Basra, Iraq

Medical School: St George’s University

Career Plans: Surgical Oncology

Favorite thing about Lincoln: Diversity of cases
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Phuoc Christie-Nguyen, MD
Hometown: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Medical School: Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine

​Career Plans: Pathology


Favorite thing about Lincoln: Diverse patient population 

Fun fact: I’m the tallest in my family
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Andrew T. Dippre, MD
Hometown: Fort Mill, South Carolina

Medical School: Medical University of South Carolina

Career Plans: Diagnostic Radiology / Interventional Radiology

Favorite thing about Lincoln: The close knit structure of the Surgery Department and the unique patient population and disease pathology treated at Lincoln
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Laurent Ganry, MD
Hometown: Paris, France

Medical School: Sorbonne University, School of Medicine

Career Plans: Head and Neck Surgery- Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery

Favorite thing about Lincoln:
Opportunities for growth

Fun Fact: Honhon

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Jasjit Singh Multani, MD
Hometown: Amherst, Massachusetts

Medical School: St. George’s University

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Career Plans: Unknown

​Favorite thing about Lincoln: My co-workers

​Fun fact: My guilty pleasure food is wings


Fellows

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John C Stivers, MD
Surgical Critical Care Fellow
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​Julia A.M. Heaton, MD
Hand/Plastics Fellow