Medical College of Wisconsin Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship Program
Surgical Critical Care Fellowship
The Surgical Critical Care (SCC) Fellowship is an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited one year fellowship with multiple track options such as one-year SCC only track, one-year SCC pediatric track and two-year combined SCC, and ACS Fellowship track.
The majority of the SCC fellowship year is spent at Froedtert Hospital in a 21-bed Surgical Intensive Care Unit with over 1700 admissions per year. During the SCC year fellows will learn to manage a wide range of surgical pathologies and become proficient in bedside procedures including percutaneous tracheostomies, lines, chest tubes, bronchoscopy, and Point of Care Ultrasound. Fellows will also have an opportunity to spend time in the cardiovascular intensive care unit where they will become familiar with mechanical circulatory support and ECMO.
In addition to these experiences, fellows will also have an opportunity to rotate through in the surgical intensive care unit at the Zablocki Veterans Medical Center as well as in the neuro intensive care unit and surgical intensive care unit at St. Luke’s Medical Center, a large community hospital.
Fellows in the SCC fellowship are employed by The Medical College of Wisconsin and Affiliated Hospitals (MCWAH).
Acute Care Surgery Fellowship
The two-year Acute Care Surgery fellowship is designed to provide in-depth training for those interested in Trauma and complex Emergency General Surgery. During the first year the fellow will complete an ACGME accredited Surgical Critical Care fellowship.
The second year is accredited through the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) and is structured to maximize the educational value of the Trauma and Acute Care Surgical services while also providing rotations on vascular surgery, thoracic surgery, and transplant surgery. During the second year the fellow will have the opportunity to rotate at a busy trauma center in Panama City. This international rotation is meant to expand the fellow’s view of global surgery and is a unique opportunity to experience how trauma care is provided outside of the United States. The fellow will gain experience in the administrative requirements necessary to run a trauma program, as well as experience with research and quality improvement programs. The second-year fellow will have a faculty appointment in the Department of Surgery and will experience graduated levels of responsibility but will always be on call with an attending surgeon.
Upon completion of this two-year fellowship the graduate will have a broad experience in Trauma, Emergency General Surgery, Critical Care, Trauma System/Center management, Global Surgery, and research. It is our intention to train the future leaders of the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery field regardless of whether they chose to practice at an academic medical center or community hospital.
The second year ACS fellow is employed as a faculty instructor through the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW).
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2024-2025 Current Fellows
Simin Golestani, MD
Acute Care Surgery Fellow
Residency: University of Texas at Austin
Elisabeth Loomis, DO
Surgical Critical Care Fellow
Surgery Residency: Summa Health Akron City Hospital
Courtney Pokrzywa, MD
Surgical Critical Care Fellow
Surgery Residency: New York Presbyterian Hospital- Columbia University
Marinda Scrushy, MD
Pediatric Critical Care Fellow
Surgery Residency: UT Southwestern Medical School
Past Fellows
Past Acute Care Surgery Fellows
2023-2024 Nathan Carlson, MD
2022-2023 Kathryn Haberman, MD
Past Pediatric Critical Care Fellows
2022-2023 Zachary Morrison, MD
2021-2022 Amanda Witte, MD
2020-2021 Christopher Laird, MD
2019-2020 Ali Mokdad, MD
2018-2019 Alessandra Landman, MD
2017-2018 Jose Salazar, MD
2016-2017 Ruchi Amin, MD
Past Surgical Critical Care Fellows
2023-2024 Simin Golestani MD
2023-2024 Weston Andrews, MD
2022-2023 Nathan Carlson, MD
2022-2023 Brittney Lemon, DO
2022-2023 Isaac Hanson, DO
2021-2022 Motaz Selim, MD
2021-2022 Kathryn Haberman, MD
2021-2022 Nolan Rudder, MD
2020-2021 Bennett Berning, MD
2020-2021 Rebecca Mitchell, MD
2019-2020 Amy Murphy, DO
2019-2020 Joshua Pearl, MD
2018-2019 Joseph Losh, DO
2017-2018 Charles Fehring, MD
2017-2018 Andrew Kamien, MD
2016-2017 Nathaniel Bonfanti, MD
2016-2017 James Cooros, MD
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Anu Elegbede, MD
Surgical Critical Care Associate Fellowship Director
Jeremy Levin, MD
Acute Care Surgery Associate Fellowship Director