General Surgery Residency Faculty
Meet the faculty in the SSM Health/Saint Louis University School of Medicine General Surgery Residency Program.
Leadership
Jennifer Keller, M.D.
Associate director, General Surgery Residency Program
Associate professor
Michael S. Williams Jr., M.D.
Director, General Surgery Residency Program
Associate professor
Faculty
Christopher Behr, M.D.
Assistant professor
Director, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program
Christopher Blewett, M.D.
Director, Division of Pediatric Surgery
John Culhane, M.D.
Kaitlin Farrell, M.D.
Assistant professor
Carl Freeman, M.D.
Director, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Associate director, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program
Richard Herman, M.D.
Assistant professor
Eddy C. Hsueh, M.D.
Director, Division of General Surgery
Professor
Bruce Jones, D.O.
Assistant professor
Emily Mann, M.D.
Assistant professor
Shin Miyata, M.D.
Associate professor
Director, Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Program
Grace Montenegro, M.D.
Assistant professor
Daniel Naughton, M.D.
Mustafa Nazzal, M.D.
Professor
Director, Division of Abdominal Transplant Surgery
Ebun Otegbeye, M.D.
Assistant professor
Joseph J. Platz, M.D.
Associate professor
Director, Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Program
Chief and medical director of surgery, SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital-St. Louis
Surgery student clinical director and primary specialty advisor
Henry Randall, M.D.
Professor
Surgical director, kidney transplantation
Samuel Rheinhardt, M.D.
Assistant professor
Connie Rossini, M.D.
Assistant professor
William Sherman, M.D.
Ralph Silverman, M.D.
Assistant professor
Matthew Smeds, M.D.
Professor
Nirmal Veeramachaneni, M.D.
Professor
Janani Vigneswaran, M.D.
Assistant professor
Catherine Wittgen, M.D.
Professor
Director, Vascular Surgery Integrated Residency
Director, Vascular Surgery Fellowship Program
Brandon Wojcik, M.D.
Emad Zakhary, M.D.
Assistant professor
Emeriti
Keith S. Naunheim, M.D.
Professor emeritus
Chintalapati Varma, M.D.
Professor emeritus
Director, pediatric liver and kidney transplantation