Meet the Michigan Medicine 2025 Surgery Intern Class

Introducing the newest intern cohort who will be training within the Department of Surgery

We’re incredibly excited to welcome our new class of surgery interns! Get to know their names and faces here, and be sure to give them a warm Michigan welcome when they start this summer.

General Surgery 
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Luca Borah - University of Michigan Medical School

Daniel Denson - Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Amelia Gavulic - University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Jeevan Murthy - West Virginia University School of Medicine

Anna Noronha - University of Michigan Medical School

Kenechukwu Odenigbo - University of Michigan Medical School

Alex Wu - Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

 

General Surgery - Preliminary
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Gabriela Maica - University of Michigan Medical School

Andrew Plumb - Medical College of Wisconsin

Reinie Thomas - University of Michigan Medical School

Baylee Wiechecki - Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

 

Plastic Surgery
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Uchechukwu Amakiri - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Jayna Lenders - University of Michigan Medical School

Michael Saunders - University of Michigan Medical School

Olivia Waldron - Penn State College of Medicine

 

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
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Bradley Blitstein, DDS - University of Michigan Medical School

Madison LeBlanc, DDS - University of Michigan Medical School

Estifanos Mehari, DDS - University of Michigan Medical School

 

Thoracic Surgery
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Jessica Carducci - University of Michigan Medical School

Christine Lannon - Texas A&M University College of Medicine

 

Vascular Surgery
Vascular surgery intern welcome graphic

 

Juan "Sebastían" Cifuentes Muñoz - Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Universidad de Los Andes Facultad de Medicina

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