Surgery
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Clinical Department:	Surgery
Information:	The Department of Surgery provides consultative and definitive care services on both an inpatient and outpatient basis in Cardiothoracic Surgery, General Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery, Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, Neurosurgery, Pediatric Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Podiatric Surgery, Surgical Oncology, and Vascular Surgery. The patient referral procedure in each surgical specialty is designated in the following pages. General inquiries may be directed to the department office or to any of the division offices. Emergency surgical care is available 24 hours a day and may be arranged with the needed specialist directly or through the Emergency Medicine Center, where all surgical services have an emergency on-call roster available. Ambulatory care is provided in a variety of divisional locations in 200 and 300 UCLA Medical Plaza and within the Medical Center. Appointments may be scheduled directly with each division. Families of patients who are undergoing surgery in the Medical Center's Main Operating Room may wait in the Surgical Waiting Area in the main lobby on the first floor of the hospital, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. A volunteer coordinates communication between physicians and families via direct-line access to the recovery room and a house telephone.
Addresses:	Mailing Address 200 UCLA Medical Plaza UCLA Division of General Surgery 200 UCLA Medical Plaza, Suite 214 Los Angeles, CA, 90095 UCLA Department of Surgery 72-131 CHS l0833 Le Conte Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90095-1749
Telephone Number:	(310) 794-7788 Patient Appointments
Web Resource:	http://www.surgery.medsch.ucla.edu
Institutes and Centers, Divisions and Programs:	Cardiac Surgery Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology General Surgery Gonda Robotic Surgery Center Head and Neck Surgery Liver and Pancreas Transplantation Lung Cancer Program Pediatric Surgery Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Podiatric Surgery Surgical Oncology Thoracic Surgery UCLA Medical Group Physicians in Private Practice Vascular Surgery
Chair:	Busuttil, Ronald
Vice Chairs:	Kupiec-Weglinski, Jerzy W Shemin, Richard
Distinguished Professor:	Cochran, Alistair
Physician:	Crisera, Christopher
Professors:	Abemayor, Elliot Atkinson, James Baker, John Becker, Donald Berke, Gerald Bradley, James Buckberg, Gerald D Busuttil, Ronald Callender, David Chang, Helena Chiu, Robert De Salles, Antonio De Virgilio, Christian M Deland, Edward L Demetriou, Achilles J Economou, James Esmailian, Fardad Fleming, Arthur W Frazee, John Fried, Itzhak Gelabert, Hugh Gerratt, Bruce Gomez-Pinilla, Fernando Hiatt, Jonathan Holmes Jr., Elbert Isenberg, Sherwin Ishiyama, Akira Kelly, Daniel Klein, Stanley R Kreiman, Jody Kupiec-Weglinski, Jerzy W Laks, Hillel Lawrence, Peter Lazareff, Jorge Lefor, Alan T Martin, Neil Menkes, John L Micevych, Paul Miller, Timothy Quinones-Baldrich, William Rajfer, Jacob Ramming, Kenneth P Reber, Howard Rozga, Jacek Lynne Sarnat, Bernard G. Shemin, Richard Thompson Jr., Jesse Trento, Alfredo Wang, Marilene White, Rodney A Wolf, Kenneth E. Yersiz, Hasan
Clinical Professors:	Jones, Lester J Kawamoto Jr., Henry K
Professors in Residence:	Canalis, Rinaldo Mathern, Gary
Visiting Professor:	Sininger, Yvonne
Adjunct Professor:	Saxton, Romaine K.
Associate Professors:	Ardehali, Abbas Bennion, Robert Bergsneider, Marvin Berry, David Blackwell, Keith Castro, Dan Coito, Ana J. Colquhoun, Steven D Connelly, Caroline A Cryer III, Henry Da Lio, Andrew Festekjian, Jaco Fine, Marjorie B Fontana, Gregory Hiyama, Darryl Kass, Robert Ko, Clifford Lefor, Alan T Lipa, Joan McBride, Duncan Nenov, Valeriy I. Noffsinger, P Douglas Omari, Bassam John Plunkett, Mark Rozga, Jacek Lynne Saab, Sammy Sack, Jonathan Sawicki, Mark Schmit, Paul Srivatsan, Eri Watson, James
Associate Professor In-Residence:	Eibl, Guido Farmer, Douglas Sercarz, Joel
Associate Clinical Professors:	Han, Steven-Huy Kedeshian, Paul
Clinical Associate Professor:	Chandler, Charles
Adjunct Associate Professors:	Hoffman, Larry F. Sen, Luyi J.
Assistant Professors:	Bachiller, Daniel J. Baquerizo, Angeles Maria Brown, Jimmy J. Burroughs, Sherilyn Cameron, Robert Chen, Shaoxiong G. Cheng, Wen Childs, Tracey R Coker, Joan Colquhoun, Steven D Connelly, Caroline A De Virgilio, Christian M DeRubertis, Brian Deugarte, Daniel Duffy, John Dunn, James Dutson, Erik Eilber, Frederick (Fritz) Ghobrial, Rafik Gill, Gus E Glenn, Thomas Gonzalez, Nestor Gordon, Sherilyn Grise, Kimberlee Harris, Neil Hines, Oscar Hofstetter, Wayne Holly, Langston Hong, Johnny Hunter, Curtis Imagawa, David K Jackson, Keith A Jarrahy, Reza Jimenez, Juan Kanamori, Glenn S Khoo, Larry Kwon, Murray Lee, Jay Lee, Stefan M Liau, Linda Lopez, Ivan A Lundy, Leo Maish, Mary Mehran, Amir-Hossein Nabili, Vishad Neville, Angela Nguyen, Tien Nishitani, Junko Nissen, Nicholas N. Odim, Jonah Omari, Bassam John Paiva, Marcos Penichet, Manuel Petrie, Beverley A. Putnam, Brant Rawnsley, Jeffrey Reemtsen, Brian Rigberg, David Rudkin, George Shafa, Bob Shapiro, Nina Williams-Smith, Lorraine Yoo, James Zhai, Yuan Zhang, Zhaoyan
Assistant Professor In-Residence:	Chhetri, Dinesh Giza, Christopher Head, Christian Lipshutz, Gerald Shew, Stephen Tillou, Areti
Assistant Clinical Professors:	Dafter, Roger Foster, Nova Holt, Curtis D Rapkin, David
Clinical Instructor:	Williams, Charlene L
Member:	Stamos, Michael J.
Instructors:	Chin, Kenley R Conley, Milton H Gorgulho, Alessandra Tolmos, Jorge J
Professors Emeritus:	Atik, Mohammad I. Barker, Wiley F Batzdorf, Ulrich Bergstrom, Lavonne B Calcaterra, Thomas Crandall, Paul H Dirks, Donald D Eilber, Frederick Fonkalsrud, Eric Gupta, Rishab K Irie, Reiko F Lesavoy, Malcolm A. Machleder, Herbert I. Maloney, James Mandal, Ashis K Moore, Wesley Morgenstern, Leon L.G. Morton, Donald L Passaro Jr, Edward P Rand, Robert W Shoemaker, William C Stern, W Eugene Tompkins, Ronald K. Zarem, Harvey A
Staff:	Peralta, Lisetta