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.

PATIENTS 
Department of Pediatric Surgery
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
2200 Children's Way
Doctors Office Tower, Suite 7100 VCH
Fax: (615) 936-1046
Office (615) 936-1050
After hours emergency (615) 936-1056

See Dr. Zamora's publications on PubMed

WEBSITE:  Department of Pediatric Surgery

Dr. Barbul joins our surgical faculty as Professor in the Division of General Surgery after serving as Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD and Medical Director of Operating Rooms/Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery, Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC.

His clinical areas of interest include surgical procedures involving the GI tract, hernia repair, complex wounds, surgical nutrition and a broad range of other general surgical procedures. Dr. Barbul is currently expanding a specialty treatment program for patients with gastroparesis, a growing population of chronically ill patients who have unique gastric/digestive conditions due to diabetes, and other health issues.

Dr. Barbul is certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

For his contributions to wound healing, he has been presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Wound Healing Society of America.

RESEARCH and EDUCATION

Dr. Barbuls research is focused on surgical nutrition, amino acid metabolism and research pertaining to the treatment of wound healing. He has most recently published articles including, Effect of a Specialized Amino Acid Mixture on Human Collagen Deposition, Annals of Surgery, the Role of Nitric Oxide in Repair Processes, American Journal of Surgery, and Excessive Nitric Oxide Impairs Wound Collagen Accumulation, Journal of Surgical Research.

Dr. Barbul received his undergraduate degree from City College of New York, New York, NY and his medical degree from the School of General Medicine, Bucharest, Romania.

Adrian.Barbul@vumc.org

Dr. Kiernan joins our surgical faculty after completing her fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX. Her clinical areas of expertise include endocrine disorders of the adrenal glands, thyroid disease and thyroid cancer, parathyroid, neuroendocrine surgery, and GI surgery. Dr. Kiernan is certified by the American Board of Surgery General Surgery.

Research

Dr. Kiernan’s research interests are in adrenal cortical carcinoma, thyroid cancer, and data quality and quality improvement. Her recently published articles include: Features of Synchronous Versus Metachronous Metastasectomy in Adrenal Cortical Carcinoma: Analysis from the US Adrenocortical Carcinoma Database, Surgery; Bilateral Neck Exploration for Sporadic Primary Hyperparathyroidism, Journal of the American College of Surgeons; and New Terminology-Noninvasive Follicular Neoplasm with Papillary-Like Nuclear Features and its Effect on the Rate of Malignancy at a Single Institution, Surgery.

Memberships and Honors

Dr. Kiernan received the Harwell Wilson Award for Surgical Excellence from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; the Clinical Excellence Award from the Department of Surgical Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX: and the Excellence in Patient Care Award from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX. Dr. Kiernan is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the Gold Humanism Honor Society, the American College of Surgeons, and the Association of Academic Surgeons.

Education

Dr. Kiernan received her Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI, and her MD from Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN. She completed her internship and residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN and a fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.

PATIENTS
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center 
1301 Medical Center Drive
Nashville, TN 37232
Fax: (615) 936-6535
Appointments: (615) 936-8422

CONTACT
Division of Surgical Oncology & Endocrine Surgery
2220 Pierce Avenue
579 Preston Research Building
Nashville, TN 37232
Phone: (615) 322-2391
Fax: (615) 936-6535
EMAIL:  Colleen.M.Kiernan@vumc.org

WEBSITE: Division of Surgical Oncology & Endocrine Surgery

Clinical areas of interest:

• Adult Liver Transplantation
• Pediatric Liver Transplantation
• Living Donor Liver Transplantation
• Hepatobiliary Surgery

Board Certifications:

• General Surgery, American Board of Surgery, Certified, 2023

Education:

• M.D., Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Argentina, 2001

See Dr. Montenovo's publications on PubMed

Lab: https://medsites.vumc.org/aldrichlab

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine

Dr. Aldrich is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine. She holds additional appointments in the Department of Thoracic Surgery and in the Department of Biomedical Informatics.