Dr. Menzel joined our surgical faculty in the Division of General Surgery as an assistant professor of Clinical Surgery after completing a fellowship in Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His clinical areas of expertise are bariatric and metabolic surgery, as well as minimally invasive foregut surgery. Other areas of expertise include GI surgery, gastroesophageal reflux disease, biliary disease, and general surgery. Dr. Menzel will be focusing his efforts on the development of Vanderbilt’s Surgical Weight Loss/Bariatric Program at Vanderbilt’s Wilson County Hospital. 

Research

Dr. Menzel’s research interests include optimizing enhanced recovery pathways in bariatric patients, studying patient outcomes after staged bariatric revision operations, and the professionalism of medicine. His recent publications include: Comparing Sleeve Gastrectomy to Single Stage Band Removal and Concomitant Sleeve Gastrectomy, International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders. He is also co-authoring a book chapter on the metabolic changes after roux-en-y gastric bypass.

Memberships

Dr. Menzel is a member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, the American Medical Association, and is becoming a member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons. He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery.

Education

• Medical Degree - Medical University of South Carolina - Charleston, SC
• Internship & Residency - Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami Hospital - Miami, FL
• Certified Nutritionist and Personal Fitness Trainer

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Dr. Bradley joined our surgical faculty in the Division of General Surgery as an assistant professor of Surgery, after working as a private practice General Surgeon in Knoxville, TN. His clinical areas of expertise include abdominal wall reconstruction, hernia (inguinal, ventral, incisional, flank, and epigastric), biliary disease/gallbladder, diaphragmatic hernia, and sports hernia/athletic pubalgia.

Research

Dr. Bradley’s research interests include patient outcomes before and after hernia repair, hernia quality of life, minimally invasive surgical techniques, robotics in surgery, biology of hernia, and hernia device implants. His recent publications include: Does Ventral Hernia Defect Length, Width, or Area Predict Postoperative Quality of Life? Answers from a Prospective International Study, Journal of Surgical Research; Defining Surgical Outcomes and Quality of Life in Massive Ventral Hernia Repair; an International Multicenter Prospective Study, American Journal of Surgery; and SAGES Guidelines for Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair, Surgical Endoscopy.

Memberships

Dr. Bradley is a member of the American College of Surgeons, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, and Southeastern Surgical Congress. He is also a member of the Americas Hernia Society and Tennessee Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Bradley is an American College of Surgeons Fellow. He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery.

Education

Dr. Bradley graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Memphis, in Memphis, TN. Graduate studies in science and business were conducted at the University of Memphis, in Memphis, TN. Dr. Bradley received his MD from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC. He completed his residency and internship at University of South Carolina/Palmetto Health, Columbia, SC. He completed his Minimally Invasive Surgery fellowship with a focus on hernia repair at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC.

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Education:

• Ph.D. in Reproductive biology, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea, 2009
• M.S. in Reproductive biology, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea, 2005
• B.S. in Biotechnology, Seoul Women’s University, Korea, 2003

Research

• Defining the risk factors for gastric cancer development.
• Understanding the progression and evolution of dysplastic stage to cancer as a key transition state in gastric carcinogenesis, using novel in vitro organoid models and in vivo mouse models.
• Defining tumorigenic potential of heterogenous dysplastic cell lineages, including dysplastic stem cells, as gastric cancer precursor cells.

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Education

• 2006 M.D., Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Postgraduate Training

• 2006-2007 Internship in General Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
• 2007-2008 Residency in General Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
• 2008-2010 Fellowship in Transplantation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
• 2010-2013 Residency in General Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
• 2013-2016 Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
• 2016-2017 Fellowship in Congenital Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Credentials

• Board Certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery

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Education:

• A.B., Human Biology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 1987

• A.M., Sociology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 1987

• M.D., New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, 1991

Post Graduate Training:

• Internship, General Surgery, Benjamin Rush, MD, Surgery, University Hospital, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, 1991-1992

• Residency, General Surgery, Edwin Dietch, Surgery , University Hospital, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, 1992-1998

• Fellowship, Pediatric Surgery, Henri Ford, Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999-2001

Areas of Interest:

• Pediatric Trauma
• Pediatric Disaster Preparedness
• Necrotizing Enterocolitis
• Nitric Oxide in Gut Barrier Failure

Dr. Zamora joined our faculty after completing a Pediatric Surgery fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine-Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, in Georgia. His clinical areas of expertise include advanced minimally invasive surgery in children; neonatal, congenital anomalies; pediatric solid tumors; thoracic pathology; and hepatobiliary and pancreatic disorders.

Research
Dr. Zamora’s research interests are in fetal and neonatal surgery, pediatric surgery clinical outcomes, and surgical education. His publications include Predictive Value of MRI Findings for the Identification of a Hernia Sac in Fetuses with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia, American Journal of Roentgenology; Low Abdominal NIRS Values and Elevated Serum Intestinal Fatty Acid-Binding Protein Predict Necrotizing Enterocolitis in a Premature Piglet Model. PLoS One; and An Analysis of Outcomes Comparing Single-Site Venovenous ECMO to Multi-Site Venovenous ECMO for Pediatric Respiratory Failure, Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 

Memberships and Honors
Dr. Zamora is a member of the American Pediatric Surgical Association, the Association for Academic Surgery and the American College of Surgeons. He was named Resident of the Year, Department of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL; Best Teaching Resident, Department of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, and Outstanding Teaching Resident, Department of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL. Dr. Zamora received the Eighth Annual Edward M Copeland III, MD Resident Paper Competition at the Florida Chapter American College of Surgeons Annual Meeting, Gainesville, FL, and the Samuel Stal, MD Memorial Award for Excellence in Research from Texas Children's Hospital Surgical Research Day, Houston, TX. He also speaks Spanish as a native language and is conversational in Portuguese.

Education
Dr. Zamora received his Bachelor of Science from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He earned his MD from the University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, and completed his internship and residency in General Surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL. He earned his Masters of Public Health degree at the University of Texas School of Public Health, and he also completed a 3-year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX.

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