Surgical Critical Care Fellowship

Samy-Malik Bendjemil, MD, MPH

Samy-Malik Bendjemil, MD, MPH graduated of the University of Texas in San Antonio where he studied at their dual MD/MPH program as a Fulbright Scholar. He finished a Burn fellowship at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in Chicago. Samy completed his general surgery residency at San Joaquin General Hospital. He is actively involved in global surgery and introduced Stop the Bleed to Burkina Faso, Africa, conducting training in both the major cities and rural villages. His ultimate objective as a trauma surgeon is to create community-based programs that involve the surgical community outside of the traditional hospital setting.

Harrison Chau, MD, MS

Harrison Chau, MD, MS completed his medical school training at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 2017 and most recently completed his general surgery residency training at the University of California San Diego. He was involved in outcomes research concerning blunt splenic injury that led to significant protocol improvements in patient care. He aspires to continue engaging in trauma outcomes research and being involved in educational courses with trainees while at Stanford University. He also has a passion for culinary arts, especially Chinese cuisine, cupcakes, and French macarons.

Gerald Wang, DO

Gerald Wang, DO completed his general surgery residency at the University of Illinois Chicago, Mount Sinai Hospital. His passion for trauma and surgical critical care has stemmed from his residency training in Chicago where he was exposed to a high volume of blunt and penetrating trauma. In his free time, he really enjoys trying new restaurants, cooking, and pottery. His clinical interests include thoracic trauma as well as surgical education and teaching. He hopes to pursue a career in surgical education in the future where he can help to mentor and train surgical residents and fellows in the future.

Jacob Kirkorowicz, MD, MS

Jacob Kirkorowicz, MD, MS obtained his MSc in Global Health at Duke University in 2013 and he went on to attend the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 2014. He gained high operative experience as a resident at Kaweah Health Medical Center in Visalia, CA. His main goals are to build his academic portfolio and gain additional critical care exposure to tools such as ECMO and LVADs. Currently, he is working with Dr. Forrester on his Rib Fracture Frailty multisite study, with Kaweah Health Medical Center being one of the participating sites.

Doreen Chang, MD, MS

Doreen Chang, MD, MS, completed medical school at Duke University and is currently pursuing her general surgery residency there. At Duke, Dr. Chang’s clinical and research interests focus on outcomes research and finding innovative ways to provide value-based care to their patients in their Laboratory for Transformative Administration (LTA).

Jeff Choi, MD, MSc 

Jeff Choi, MD, MSc, completed medical school at Stanford University and is an administrative chief resident at Stanford. He underwent graduate training in Epidemiology and Biomedical Informatics during professional development time and is looking forward to a career in academic surgery as a surgeon-data scientist. Dr. Choi remains active within the AAST Associate Member Council as Chair of the Scholarship Committee. 

Joseph Krocker, MD, MSc

Joseph Krocker, MD, MSc, graduated from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine and went on to pursue general surgery residency at the JFK Medical Center/University of Miami program. During training he completed an NIH-T32 postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Houston Center for Translational Injury Research as well as an MS in Biomedical Informatics. His research focus is centered on personalized medicine in trauma related to genetic-predisposition, proteomics and metabolomics. Joe enjoys the beach, scuba diving and coconut shrimp.