Residents Leadership and Faculty
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Program leadership

Richard Ruiz, MD, FACS
Program Director

Specialties: Transplant Surgery, Abdominal Transplant

Jennifer J Freeman, MD, MPH, FACS
Associate Program Director

Specialties: Surgical Critical Care, Trauma Surgery

Faculty

Anita Krueger, MD, FACS
Core Faculty

Specialties: Thoracic Surgery, Cardiac Surgery

Rusty A Milhoan, MD
Core Faculty

Specialties: Trauma Surgery, Surgical Critical Care

Mujtaba M. Ali, MD
Faculty

Specialties: Vascular Surgery

Eric Anthony Barcak, DO
Faculty

Specialties: Orthopedic Surgery

Yadranko Ducic, MD
Faculty

Specialties: Head and Neck Surgery, Otolaryngology

Atif Haque, MD, FAANS, FACS
Faculty

Specialties: Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Spine Surgery

Victor J Olivas, Jr, MD
Faculty

Specialties: Trauma Surgery, General Surgery

Charles Lloyd Secrest, MD
Faculty

Specialties: Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery, Urology

Melvin Simien, MD
Faculty

Specialties: Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine

Residents

PGY-2

Kavneet Kaur, MD
Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU
Kristen Kluber, DO
University of North Texas Health Science Center Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Kendall Wermine, MD
University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine

PGY-1

Andrea Bell, MD
University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio
Shahrukh Chaudhry, MD
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L Foster School of Medicine
Madison Kelly, MD
University of Arkansas College of Medicine