Faculty

Michael G. Mount, FACS

Title: Program Director General Surgery Residency Program, Vice Chair Department of Surgery, Associate Trauma Medical Director
Appointment: Associate Professor of Surgery
Medical School: Western University of Health Sciences​​​​​​​
Residency: Spartanburg Regional Medical Center​​​​​​​
Fellowship: Surgical Critical Care – Medical College of Wisconsin
Clinical Interests: Surgical Quality Initiatives, Laparoscopic Hernia, Critical Care Ultrasound
Membership: Fellow American College of Surgeons, EAST, AAST, NBOME National Faculty, South Eastern Surgical Congress, American Osteopathic Association, Society of Critical Care Medicine

Kristine Lombardozzi MD, FACS

Title: Director, Surgical and Trauma ICU, Assistant Director of Trauma 
Appointment: Assistant Professor
Medical School: University of Minnesota
Residency: Indiana University
Fellowship: Orlando Regional Medical Center
Membership: Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), board member of the state chapter of SCCM, Eastern Association for Surgery on Trauma (EAST).

Thomas Ashley MD, FACS

Title: Director, Skills Lab
Appointment: Assistant Professor
Medical School: Wayne State University 
Residency: Henry Ford Hospital 1983 -1988
Fellowship: Colorectal Surgery - Henry Ford Hospital
Conference: Weekly Surgical Skills Lab
Clinical Interests: GI surgery, endoscopy, trauma surgical skills
Membership: Fellow American College of Surgeons, SAGES

W. Cuyler Calton MD, FACS

Title: Director of the Vascular Surgery Section, Medical Director of the Vascular Lab
Appointment: Assistant Professor
Medical School: Duke University
Residency: Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center
Fellowship: Geisinger Medical Center
Membership: Foothills Cardiothoracic and Vascular, Society of Vascular Surgery, Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society, Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, and the South Carolina Vascular Society

Charles Morrow, Jr. MD, FACS

Title: Co-Chief Medical Officer and Surgery Faculty
Appointment: Associate Professor
Medical School: University of South Carolina
Residency: SMC 1993-1998
Fellowship: Trauma and Critical Care - Orlando Regional Medical Center
Clinical Interests: Trauma and Critical Care
Conference: Trauma M & M
Membership: Chair of the South Carolina ACS Committee on Trauma, ATLS and National Trauma Databank sub-committees of the national ACS Committee on Trauma, Eastern Association for Surgery on Trauma (EAST) Careers in Trauma Committee and the Society of Critical Care Medicine Patient.

Christophe L. Nguyen MD, FACS

Appointment: Associate Professor
Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
General Surgery Residency: Medical University of South Carolina
Research Fellowship: Hollings Cancer Center, Charleston, SC.
Surgical Oncology Fellowship: Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA.
Membership: Society of Surgical Oncology, the American College of Surgeons, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Links: Nguyen Fox Chase, Two years Additional Research 
Clinical Interests: General surgical oncology; foregut-esophagus/stomach cancer; hepato-biliary and pancreas; liver metastases; RFA, pancreatic cancer; thoracic oncology, (lung cancer, VATS, mediastinoscopy)

Shawn Birchenough, MD

Robert Cochran, MD

R. Barry Hird MD, FACS

Hugh James, MD

Ari Kramer, MD

Michael Orseck, MD

Richard Reinhardt, MD

J. Paul Ross, MD, FAC, FASMBS, Chief of Bariatric Surgery

Ajai Srinivasan, MD

Brian Thurston, MD, FACS

Auburn Woods, MD

Claude Woollen, MD