Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery offers services and programs through the following Divisions. Use these links to directly access all our Department sites.

Education

Medical Training

Residency Program

Current Residents

PGY-5

Erik Hansen*
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Undergraduate: Stanford University
Medical School: UC San Francisco

Vincent Chow
Hometown: Hudson, FL
Undergraduate: University of Miami
Medical School: University of Miami
Activities: Surfing, spearfishing, freediving, water skiing, swimming, and anything involving H2O

Reza Firoozabadi
Hometown: Los Altos, CA
Undergraduate: UC Berkeley
Postgraduate: Boston University (MA)
Medical School: Boston University
Activities: Traveling, working out, photography, and spending time with family

Christine Pui*
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
Undergraduate: Harvard University
Medical School: Columbia University

Akira Yamamoto
Hometown: Sapporo, Japan
Undergraduate: UC Berkeley
Medical School: UC San Francisco


PGY-4

Abby Kennedy
Hometown: Lancaster, OH
Undergraduate: Utah State University
Medical School: Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Activities: Running, cooking, golfing

Luis Corrales
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Undergraduate: UC Los Angeles
Medical School: Harvard University

Jaicharan Iyengar
Hometown: Fullerton, CA
Undergraduate: UC Los Angeles
Medical School: UC San Francisco
Activities: Traveling, basketball, golf, movies, global orthopaedics, eating other people?s cooking

Carol Lin
Hometown: Tustin, CA
Undergraduate: Stanford University
Medical School: Washington University (St. Louis)
Activities: International health, taiko, modern lit, cooking, swimming, biking, backpacking, handstands

Robert Sproul
Hometown: Moraga, CA
Undergraduate: UC Berkeley
Medical School: UC San Francisco
Activities: Sports, movies, backpacking, fishing, sailing, lifting, eating

Dan Thullier*
Hometown: Oakland, CA
Undergraduate: Georgetown University
Medical School: UC San Francisco
Activities: Basketball, baseball, hiking, anime, fiction, ghostriding my whip

Adam Warren
Hometown: Pasadena, CA
Undergraduate: UC Berkeley
Postgraduate: UC Berkeley (MPH)
Medical School: Stanford University
Activities: Arts-based youth education, reggae music, snowboarding

Rosanna Wustrack
Hometown: West Linn, OR
Undergraduate: Yale University
Medical School: Washington University (St. Louis)
Activities: Running, basketball, painting, baking and traveling


PGY-3

Russell Dedini
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Undergraduate: UC Davis
Medical School: UC Davis
Activities: Spending time with my daughter and wife, road cycling, scuba diving, playing guitar

Scott Kaiser
Hometown: Fairfax, CA
Undergraduate: Georgetown University
Medical School: Washington University, St. Louis
Activities:? Travel, grilling, soccer, skiing, surfing, freediving

Jun Matsui
Hometown: Richmond, IN
Undergraduate: Amherst College
Medical School: University of Chicago
Activities: Baking, eating, running, swimming, creative writing, ultimate frisbee, traveling and learning languages, basic auto mechanics

Lionel Metz
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Undergraduate: UC Davis
Medical School: UC San Francisco
Activities: Reading, running, softball, hanging out with friends and family, tinkering with assorted electronics, traveling, home improvement

Lee Jae Morse
Hometown: Danville, VT
Undergraduate: University of Vermont
Medical School: University of Vermont
Activities: Eating oysters at Point Reyes, rock climbing, mountain biking, travel, skiing, doing all of the above with wife

Samantha Piper
Hometown: Coronado, CA
Undergraduate: Harvard
Medical School: UC San Francisco
Activities: Running, cycling, sea kayaking, surfing, traveling to exotic places, exploring nature

Andre Pedtke
Hometown: Minnesota, MN
Undergraduate: University of Virginia
Medical School: Univerity of Minnesota

PGY-2

Paul Toogood
Hometown: Cincinnati, OH
Undergraduate school: University of Pennsylvania
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University
Activities: Personal fitness, golfing (poorly), and the remainder of my free time is divided between my wife and my cat

David Shearer
Hometown: Toppenish, WA
Undergraduate school: MIT
Medical School: University of Washington
Activities: Water skiing, snow skiing, basketball, swimming, travel

Ehsan Tabaraee
Hometown: Washington, DC
Undergraduate school: University of Virginia
Medical School: George Washington University
Activities: Basketball, soccer, grilling, orthopaedic surgery

Amanda Tencza
Hometown: New Albany, Ohio
Undergraduate school: University of Kentucky
Medical School: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University
Activities: Swimming, biking, running, skiing, and cooking

Ying Ying Kao
Hometown: Richmond, Va
Undergraduate school: University of Chicago
Medical School: University of Chicago

Michael Feldstein
Hometown: Hillsborough, CA
Undergraduate School: UC Berkeley (Bioengineering)
Graduate School: MIT (Bioelectronics)
Medical School: Harvard (Health Sciences and Technology)
Activities: Snow skiing, snowboarding, swimming, water-polo, SCUBA diving, surfing, water-skiing, wake-boarding, mountain biking, MacGyvering

Robert Lucas
Hometown: Concord, CA
Undergraduate School: UCLA
Medical School: Wake Forest
Activities: Fishing, surfing, skiing

PGY-1

Anthony Ding
Hometown: New Brunswick, NJ
Undergraduate: Columbia University
Medical School: Columbia University
Activities/interests: Snowboarding, Skiing, Fishing, Ultimate Frisbee, Marathon Running, Rock Climbing, Classical Music, Photography & Digital Photograph Restoration, Culinary Arts

Patrick Horst
Hometown: Stillwater, Minnesota
Undergraduate: Columbia University
Medical School: University of Minnesota
Activities/interests: Running, Snowboarding, Surfing, Travel and international orthopaedics, hiking and camping. Mentorship, orthopaedic and med student education

Henry Krigbaum
Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona
Undergraduate: United States Naval Academy
Medical School: Harvard University
Activities/interests: I enjoy spending time with my family and doing a variety of outdoor activities like surfing, running, biking, gardening, woodworking, fishing, backpacking as well as reading the Atlantic Monthly.

Drew Lansdown*
Hometown – Tulsa, Oklahoma
Undergraduate – Vanderbilt University
Medical School – University of Chicago
Activities – Travel, sports, golfing, music, reading, outdoors activities

Jeffrey MacLean
Hometown: Madbury, NH
Undergraduate: University of Vermont College of Engineering
Postgraduate: University of Vermont, Eidgenssische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich Switzerland
Medical School: University of Vermont
Activities: Everything outdoors

Frank Valone III
Hometown: Mill Valley, CA
Undergraduate: Hamilton College
Medical School: The George Washington University
Activities: Running, Mountaineering and Fly-fishing

Derek Ward
Hometown: Aspen, Colorado
Undergraduate: Williams College
Medical School: University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Activities: Skiing, Running, International Health

(*denotes research resident)

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