Recommended Citation
(2024)
"New Faculty,"
Jefferson Surgical Solutions: Vol. 20:
Iss.
3, Article 6.
Available at:
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/jss/vol20/iss3/6
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Roberto G. Aru, MD, has joined the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. Dr. Aru is a graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and a general surgery residency at the University of Kentucky School of Medicine. He then went on to complete a vascular surgery and endovascular therapy fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital and an advanced endovascular aortic surgery fellowship at the Hôpital Marie-Lannelongue in Paris. He is board-certified in Surgery and cares for patients at the Jefferson Vascular Center in Center City and Jefferson Methodist Hospital.
Charles W. Hoopes, MD, MPH, has joined the Department of Cardiac Surgery. Upon graduating from Duke University School of Medicine, Dr. Hoopes remained at Duke to serve as an NIH Surgical Research Fellow for two years before completing a general surgery residency at Duke University Medical Center (DUMC). He then completed a thoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Michigan before returning to DUMC to complete a fellowship in thoracic transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. He has directed thoracic transplant surgery programs at the University of California San Francisco, University of Kentucky and University of Alabama. Dr. Hoopes is double board-certified in Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery and serves as Surgical Director of Thoracic Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
Jennifer L. Miller-Ocuin, MD, has joined the Division of Colorectal Surgery. Upon graduating from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Dr. Miller-Ocuin completed two years of general surgery residency at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. She then went on to serve as a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for three years and earned a Certificate Degree in Clinical Research from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her general surgery residency at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston- Salem, NC, before completing a colorectal surgery fellowship at Case Western Reserve University/ University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. She is double board-certified in Surgery and Colorectal Surgery and cares for patients at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Jefferson Methodist Hospital.