Six Graduate From Residency Program
June 24, 2025
Drs. Jeff Choi, Erin Devine, Rejoice "Fari" Ngongoni, Charlotte Rajasingh, Dan Stoltz, and Jaclyn Wu graduated from Stanford's General Surgery Residency Program on June 24, 2025.
Jeff Choi, MD, MS, MS
Dr. Jeff Choi was extremely busy during his residency.
In 2020, Jeff was awarded the Martin Resident Fellowship in Chest Wall Injury Outcomes Research from the Chest Wall Injury Society and KLS Martin Group to fund his project: “Development and Validation of a Rib Fracture Frailty Index.” He also decided to add on a year to his professional development time so he could complete not one but two masters degrees: one in epidemiology and another in Bioinformatics.
Jeff’s research involves using different machine learning algorithms to bring evidence to the bedside. He presented his research multiple times at Holman Day, winning best podium presentation in 2023 for “Tackling the Bedside Artificial Intelligence Barrier: Natural Language Processing to Extract Injury ICD10 Diagnosis Codes Real-Time from Electronic Medical Records.”
This past year, he served as the Admin Chief alongside Dr. Charlotte Rajasingh and his paper “The Association Between Stringency of State Trauma Center Designation Criteria and Proliferation of For-profit and Nonprofit Trauma Centers" was elected among the top 10 abstracts of the 2025 Northern California Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (NCCACS) Russell Surgical Trainee Research Competition.
We are extremely lucky as after graduation, Jeff will be staying here at Stanford in the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship.
Erin Devine, MD, PhD
Dr. Devine is originally from Wisconsin. She completed her undergraduate and master of science degrees in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, followed by a PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Towards the end of her PhD, she realized that what she really wanted was to practice medicine, and so she moved to the Bay Area to attend medical school at Stanford, where she fell in love with general surgery. She will continue her training in Surgical Critical Care at the University of Chicago, and she's excited to be closer to family. She is looking forward to a career in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery!
Rejoice "Fari" Ngongoni, MD
The COVID-19 pandemic put a wrench in Fari’s PD plans, making it impossible for her to pursue global health. She did a quick pivot and worked with S-SPIRE to research clinical outcomes including fragmentation of cancer care. Her mentor, Dr. Brendan Visser, also helped her look into readmissions and how to cut healthcare costs, which she presented on the national stage.
Fari was eventually able to fulfill her dream of studying global health; the first Stanford Surgery resident to participate in the international elective rotation in Zimbabwe since COVID.
After graduation, Fari will be staying here at Stanford in the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship.
After getting to know her during med school, we were thrilled when Dr. Charlotte Rajasingh matched at Stanford Surgery in 2018.
During her PD time, Charlotte earned her master’s in public health. She also worked with Dr. Sherry Wren on several projects to help optimize patients for surgery, which was funded by a T32 grant from the Stanford-AHRQ Health Services Research Program. She presented “Emergency Department Visits: An Opportunity to Improve Post-operative Healthcare Utilization Following Ambulatory Surgery” at the 28th Annual AHRQ National Research Service Award Trainees Research conference.
This past year she served as Admin Chief alongside Dr. Jeff Choi and was able to participate in the international elective rotation in Zimbabwe.
After graduation, Charlotte will head to Cleveland Clinic for a Colorectal Surgery Fellowship.
Dan Stoltz, MD
Dr. Dan Stoltz didn’t travel far after earning his MD. We were more than happy to keep him at Stanford and join the surgery team full time.
During his PD time, Dan was selected by the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub to participate in their Physician-Scientist Fellowship Program. He worked in the lab of Dr. Steve Quake investigating possible infectious etiologies/contributors to the development of biliary atresia.
Dan served as an Education Chief for the past two years. Alongside Drs. Leon Naar and Ananya Anand, they have deployed an ABSITE review curriculum and integrated new interdisciplinary core course lectures into our didactics curriculum.
After graduation, Dan will head East to the Brigham for a fellowship in Colorectal Surgery.
Jaclyn Wu, MD
Dr. Jaclyn Wu came to Stanford Surgery after graduating from The Ohio State University in 2019.
A theme of Jaclyn’s time here has been her dedication to sustainability and “greening the ORs” She has won multiple awards for her projects which she started during her PD time. Her efforts saved hundred of thousands of pounds of waste from entering landfills, simultaneously saving labor hours and $$ as well!
After graduation, Jaclyn will be going into general surgery practice in Seattle, WA.