Phoenix Integrated Surgical Residency

Vafa Ghaemmaghami, MD, FACS is the interim program director for the Phoenix Integrated Residency Program. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Texas in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and attended medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center from 1996-2000. While in medical school, he was inducted into the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society in 1999. Dr. Ghaemmaghami then completed a General Surgery Residency at the University of California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California. He then moved on to the University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center, where he completed a 1 year fellowship in Trauma/Burns/Critical Care, which he completed in 2007. Dr. Ghaemmaghami was recruited directly out of his fellowship to take on the duties of a trauma surgeon and a surgical critical care specialist at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center. He is now the Interim Director of the Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit. In this position, Dr. Ghaemmaghami also provides key clinical and educational oversight for the Phoenix Integrated Surgical Residency trainees as well as medical students primarily from the University of Arizona who elect to take specialty rotations in the aforementioned disciplines. His research interests include surgical education and noninvasive intensive care patient monitoring.

Paul Dabrowski, MD, a California native, joined the full-time faculty of the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in 2008 as the Associate Director of Trauma Services and Associate Director of the Surgical Residency. He completed his General Surgery and Trauma/Surgical Critical Care Fellowships at Tulane University and Charity Hospitals in 1997 before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in the Section of Traumatology and Surgical Critical Care. While at Penn, he won numerous teaching awards during his seven years as the Director of the Core Surgery Clerkship. In 2005, as its inaugural Trauma Program Medical Director, he lead the successful start up and accreditation of the Reading Hospital Trauma Program, and Level II Trauma Center in eastern Pennsylvania and part of the Penn Trauma Network. Dr Dabrowski and his wife, Patricia, a Masters-trained peripartum nurse, have three active sons, Michael, Timmy and Stephen; raising them is their main hobby.

William V. Dolan, M.D. is the and Chief of the Section of General Surgery at the Carl T. Hayden Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Dolan graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin (1974), and completed his surgery residency at St. Joseph's Hospital in Milwaukee (1979). Dr. Dolan bore title to several clinical and administrative positions for Fundacao Esperanca, Inc. in Santarem, Para, Brazil (1980-1994), before taking a faculty position at the Carl T. Hayden Veterans Affairs Hospital. Along with several full- and part-time staff General Surgeons and Surgical Specialists, Dr. Dolan oversees the clinical teaching program for the house officers assigned to that facility throughout their training.

House Officers