The
faculty and staff of the General Surgery Residency
of the Department of Medical Education of Florida
Hospital is dedicated to providing the best
possible surgical education in the most pleasant
environment. Our philosophy is that our residents
are primarily students and will be treated as
such. Our goal is to produce surgeons with excellent
technical skills, a broad surgical experience
and documented excellence in all the ACGME competencies.
Our dream is to produce surgeons oriented toward
care of the whole person and who might consider
staying in the Central Florida community.
Louis H. Barr, MD ~ Dennis L. Rouseseau, Jr,
MD, PhD ~ Rhonda L Harmon, MD
Joseph D Portoghese, MD ~ Jean Fung, MD ~ Alric
V. Simmonds Jr, MD
(left to right)
Meet
the Faculty
The
following are the core faculty for our residency
program.
Jean F. Miner MD
Program Director
Dr. Miner was appointed Program Director in June of 2010. She originally joined the faculty of Surgical Specialists of Florida Hospital in September of 2007 following the completion of her fellowship training in Minimally Invasive Surgery here at Florida Hospital. In 2008 she was asked to take on the role of Associate Program Director. Dr. Miner is a graduate of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, and completed her residency training at LSU in New Orleans, where she was Administrative Chief Resident during Hurricane Katrina with the responsiblity for organizing the rotations follwoing the disaster for the 56 residents in her program. This background helped channel her into her role as Associate Program Director. In 2006, she was invited by the American College of Surgeons to present her experiences during Katrina at the annual Clinical Congress. Dr. Miner holds the rank of Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Florida State University College of Medicine. She is a Board Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery.
Louis Barr MD FACS
Dr.
Barr was one of the first faculty members of
the residency program when he joined us in 2006
in our first year of recruiting for the new
program. Dr. Barr was educated at the Georgetown
University School of Medicine in Washington,
DC and trained as a general surgery intern and
first-year resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital
in Connecticut. He completed his residency training
at Temple University in Philadelphia and went
on to fellowship training at the National Cancer
Institute, Surgery Branch of the National Institutes
of Health in Bethesda. Dr. Barr served on the
faculty at LSU Shreveport before coming to Florida
to join a local general surgery group in the
1980s and has remained in Orlando ever since.
Dr. Barr is a certified Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Rhonda L. Harmon MD
Dr. Harmon joined the faculty of the residency
program in April of 2007. She obtained her MD
degree from Medical University of South Carolina
and did her surgical residency at Washington
Hospital Center in Washington, DC. Prior to joining our faculty, she was Assistant Professor of Surgery at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas from 2005 to 2007. She currently holds a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery rank with the Florida State University College of Medicine. Dr. Harmon was named Physician Research Coordinator in 2008. She is Director of Medical Education in charge of coordinating the rotations of residents from our other programs as well as for medical student clerkships. Dr. Harmon is a Board Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery.
Joseph Portoghese MD FACS
Chief Academic Officer
Dr.
Portoghese has been a member of the medical
staff of Florida Hospital since 1989 and was
President of the Medical Staff from 2004-2006.
As Florida Hospital moved forward into the medical
education arena, Dr. Portoghese was selected
to become Program Director of the new General
Surgery Residency Program, which was first accredited
in 2006. In 2007, he was appointed to the position of Chief Academic Officer and Designated Institution Official. Since that time he has held dual roles as CAO and Program Director. In June of 2010, Dr. Portoghese stepped down as Program Director in order to spend more time as Chief Academic Officer and as teaching faculty to the residents. Dr. Portoghese is a graduate of the
University of South Florida College of Medicine
and completed his residency training at the
University of South Florida as well. In private
practice since completion of training, he has
focused on general surgery and has been a clerkship
faculty for Florida State University College
of Medicine since 2002. He was appointed Associate
Professor of Surgery for the University of Central
Florida College of Medicine in 2007. Dr. Portoghese is a Board Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Dennis L. Rousseau Jr MD FACS
Dr. Rousseau joined Surgical Specialists of
Florida Hospital in September of 2007. He comes
to us from the University of Texas Health Science
Center at San Antonio where he was Assistant
Professor of Surgery and Associate Residency
Program Director. Dr. Rousseau is a graduate
of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
MD/PhD program. He obtained his General Surgery
residency training at the University of Michigan
Health System, Ann Arbor and his Surgical Oncology
Fellowship at the MD Anderson Cancer Center
in Houston. He is a Board Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. His research expertise is in the field of gastrointestinal solid tumors.
Alric Simmonds Jr MD FACS
Dr. Simmonds was the second member of the faculty
to join our residency program. He came on board
in August of 2006 and was essential in the first
year of recruiting for our new program. Dr.
Simmonds obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree
from The Ohio State University College of Medicine
and Public Health. He completed residency training at Howard University Hospital. He was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health/Heart Lung & Blood Institute to become a National Health Disparities Scholar for two years in which he completed post-doctoral research through the Department of Surgery at the University of Miami. Dr. Simmonds holds a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery rank with Florida State University College of Medicine. He serves as Medical Director for the clinical practice, Surgical Specialists of Florida Hospital. Dr. Simmonds is a Board Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
In
addition to these core faculty members, we have
preceptor agreements with subspecialty surgeons
in excess of fifty members from all the
surgical specialties medical staff of Florida
Hospital and for the trauma rotation at Tampa General.
