The graduating chief residents from top left to bottom right (all M.D.s): John Abdelsayed, Jordan Carl, Nicholas Clarke, Matthew Coker, Harish Krishnamoorthi, Steven Meadors, Christopher Moeder, Ali El Mokdad, Ibrahim Nassour, and Erica Wheat Griffin.

Congratulations to the fifth-year residents who graduated from the UT Southwestern general surgery residency program last month. The annual graduation dinner took place on the UT Southwestern Medical Center campus on Friday, June 28. Good luck! We know you will make the Department of Surgery proud.

The Department of Surgery hosted a welcome reception for the incoming residents on June 19.

As we say goodbye to the graduating chiefs, we welcome the 2019-2020 intern class to the residency program: Amr Al-Abbas, Gloria Chang, Elizabeth Cochran, Chelsea Guy-Frank, Bayley Jones, Andrea Klein, Nicole Lunardi, Gilbert Murimwa, Manuela Ochoa, Shannon Paquette, Katherine Pouns, Marinda Scrushy, and Alexis Vick (all M.D.s). We would also like to welcome the 13 prelims to the program: Ali Al-Tuama, Shariq Ali, Shunsuke Sakurai, Jennifer Blake, Seagal Dauglas, Charisma DeSai, Hayden Dohnalek, Tiffany Horrigan, Manuel Paez-Escamilla, Niraj KC, John Kimball, Zhen Lu, and Sharaz Tavana.