Faculty
Volunteer Faculty: The core element to the success of the Phoenix Integrated Surgical Residency is the commitment of our volunteer teaching surgical faculty, who freely donate their time and private practice patient cohort to the benefit of the resident training program. Clearly, success is founded upon the ability of house officers to establish open rapport with the faculty and to dedicate their energies to the care of their patients.
Full-Time Faculty:
John J. Ferrara, MD serves as the Program Director for the Phoenix Integrated Surgical Residency. Graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine (1973), Dr. Ferrara completed his surgical residency at The Ohio State University (1983). During subsequent faculty/staff appointments at The University of Connecticut (St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center), University of South Alabama, Tulane University and Henry Ford Hospital, Dr. Ferrara has been intricately involved in the administration and conduct of the educational programs of general surgery residents and medical students. Clinical interests include Advanced Laparoscopy and Trauma/Emergency Services.
Ann M. Woodward, MD is an associate Program Director for the Phoenix Integrated Surgical Residency. Dr. Woodward graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine (1996), and completed her surgical training at Henry Ford Hospital (2001). After completing a Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at that institution (2002), Ann joined the Division of Trauma/Critical Care faculty at Henry Ford, serving a number of roles in the educational realm, including that of Associate Program Director of their surgical residency. Dr. Woodward provides a clinical and educational backbone for house officers assigned to the management of surgery patients housed in the Intensive Care Unit. Among her many roles as the Associate Program Director, Dr. Woodward designs and oversees the PGY-1 educational curriculum and serves as a mentor for many of the junior-level house officers. Finally, Dr. Woodward is the director of all third and fourth year University of Arizona School of Medicine clerkship rotations.
Paul Dabrowksi, MD, a California native, joined the full-time faculty of the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in 2008 as the Associate Director of Trauma Services and Associate Director of the Surgical Residency. He completed his General Surgery and Trauma/Surgical Critical Care Fellowships at Tulane University and Charity Hospitals in 1997 before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in the Section of Traumatology and Surgical Critical Care. While at Penn, he won numerous teaching awards during his seven years as the Director of the Core Surgery Clerkship. In 2005, as its inaugural Trauma Program Medical Director, he lead the successful start up and accreditation of the Reading Hospital Trauma Program, and Level II Trauma Center in eastern Pennsylvania and part of the Penn Trauma Network.
Dr Dabrowski and his wife, Patrcia, a Masters-trained peripartum nurse, have three active sons, Michael, Timmy and Stephen; raising them is their main hobby.
William V. Dolan, MD is theChief of the Section of General Surgery at the Carl T. Hayden Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Dolan graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin (1974), and completed his surgery residency at St. Joseph's Hospital in Milwaukee (1979). Dr. Dolan held several clinical and administrative positions for Fundacao Esperanca, Inc. in Santarem, Para, Brazil (1980-1994), before taking a faculty position at the Carl T. Hayden Veterans Affairs Hospital. Along with several full- and part-time staff General Surgeons and Surgical Specialists, Dr. Dolan oversees the clinical teaching program for the house officers assigned to that facility throughout their training.
House Officers
As this is a rectangular resident training program which graduates six residents per year, there are 30 categorical trainees. Several junior level house officers from other medical specialty programs housed within the Banner Good Samaritan Graduate Medical Education Programs do spend time assigned to services within this training program.
In addition, a small cadre of Orthopaedic Surgery house officers spends some of their designated preliminary PGY-1 year within our training program.
We do offer a few Designated (non-surgical) and non-designated PGY-1 positions within this residency. Beyond this, there exist no surgical specialty or fellowship programs at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center.