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Please join me in welcoming our newest faculty members into the Department. It is my honor and privilege to be able to introduce this outstanding group of surgeons into our Department. Each of them comes with exceptional skills and knowledge. I have no doubt they will be an asset to the University of Rochester Medical Center and a role model for our residents and students for years to come. Welcome.
- Dr. Jeffrey Peters
Dr. Kristin Skinner
Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology, Associate Professor of Surgery & Oncology
Dr. Kristin Skinner earned a B.S. degree in Molecular Genetics from the University of Rochester and received her M.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University. She completed her training in general surgery and fellowship in surgical oncology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She then spent several years on the faculty at the University of Southern California, before going to NYU in 2003 as the Chief of Surgical Oncology and Director of the Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer... View Profile »
Dr. Jenny Speranza
Assistant Professor, Colorectal Surgery
Dr. Jenny Speranza attended the Rochester Institute of Technology, graduating in 1994 with her B.S. degree, Magna Cum Laude. She earned her M.D. from the School of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo (1999). Dr Speranza fi nished her surgical residency in 2004 from the State University of New York at Buffalo Consortium. In 2005, she completed a Colon and Rectal fellowship at the University of Miami... View Profile »
Dr. Randeep Kashyap
Assistant Professor, Solid Organ Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgery
Dr. Randeep Kashyap earned his bachelor in medicine and bachelor of surgery (MBBS) in 1986 from Punjab University, Chandigarh, India by graduating with honors. He also pursued his master in surgery from the same university. After completing the residency program in surgery, he joined the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s transplantation surgery fellowship program and was later appointed a visiting instructor... View Profile »
Dr. James Gangemi
Assistant Professor, Cardiac Surgery
Dr. James Gangemi is originally from Rochester, NY. He received a B.A. degree in biology from Johns Hopkins University in 1992, and his M.D. at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in 1996. He completed his general surgery residency at the University of Virginia Health System in 2003. During his residency at UVA he spent two years in the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Research Laboratory as a research fellow (1998-2000)... View Profile »
Dr. Daniel Raymond
Assistant Professor, Thoracic & Foregut Surgery
Dr. Daniel Raymond received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and earned his medical degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, his hometown. He subsequently completed an internship and residency in general surgery at the University of Virginia and during that time also completed a surgical infectious disease fellowship. He continuted his training as a fellow in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Pennsylvania... View Profile »
Dr. Edward Piotrowski
Assistant Professor, Trauma, Burn & Emergency Surgery
Dr. Edward Piotrowski, originally from Rochester, graduated from Gates-Chili HS in 1983. He attended the State University of New York at Buffalo for his B.S. degree in biochemistry where, in 1987, he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He went on to complete his M.D. in 1991 and general surgical residency in 1996, from the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Medicine. From 1996-2005, he continued on in Buffalo as an attending surgeon in their regional trauma unit practicing trauma, burns, general surgery, and endoscopy... View Profile »