Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
Hospitals / Faculty

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is a 551-bed teaching and referral center located on Chicago’s north side. It is part of Advocate Health Care, one of the top health care systems in the country and the largest fully integrated health care delivery system in Illinois. More than 900 affiliated physicians are on staff; several physicians were named among the top American Doctors. The Center features numerous high-tech diagnostic and treatment resources. Advocate Illinois Masonic is also one of Chicago’s busiest emergency care sites and is designated a Level I Trauma Center.
Illinois Masonic Medical Center provides care for North Side Chicago multiethnic, multicultural, socially diversified population. Faculty is composed of outstanding clinicians with academic background skills and expertise covers all disciplines of surgery and many fields of scientific investigation. Structured daily educational conferences are considered a ground stone of the entire teaching program.
At Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center you will find:
- General Surgery services with a large volume of diversified cases, including hepatobiliary, pancreatic, colon, complex hernias, and breast
- Advanced laparoscopic surgery, including bowel and solid organ resections, complex recurrent abdominal wall and inguinal hernia repairs
- Level I Trauma Center and Electronic Surgical Intensive Care Unit and Critical Care Fellowship
- Genito-Urinary Service, Experienced Cardiothoracic Vascular surgeons, as well as a neurosurgeons and Oncology Surgeons.
- State of Art Endosuites, in O.R.
- Surgical Skills Lab, including a Virtual Reality system and Simbionix simulator to learn and improve laparoscopic skills
- Active surgical research that include collaboration with UIC (basic science lab) and our own research program (clinical studies, surgical education and surgical simulation research)
Faculty
Program Director and Associate Program Director
Cardiothoracic Surgery

Todd Guynn, M.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgery

Gary Chmielewski, M.D.
Thoracic Surgery

Axel W. Joob, M.D.
Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
Surgical Oncology
Vascular Surgery

Mark L. Keldahl, M.D.
Vascular Surgery
Trauma & Critical Care

Richard J. Fantus, M.D.
Chair of Surgery
Trauma Surgery

Samuel Stephens Kingsley, M.D. PHD
Attending
Trauma And Acute Care Surgery

Elizabeth Gwinn, M.D.
Attending
Trauma And Acute Care Surgery

Rebeca M. Rico, M.D.
Attending
Trauma Surgery

Juan Santiago-Gonzalez, M.D.
Attending
Trauma Surgery
Breast Surgery

Celeste Cruz, M.D.
Breast Surgery
Bariatric Surgery

Rami Lutfi, M.D.
Bariatric Surgery
Colorectal Surgery

Jan Pawel Kaminski, M.D.
Colorectal Surgery

Joaquin Estrada, M.D.
Colorectal Surgery

Francesco Quinteros, M.D.
Colorectal Surgery
General Surgery

Ying Lai, M.D.
General Surgery

Marc Adajar, M.D.
General Surgery

Maria A. Osipova, M.D.
General Surgery
Breast Surgery

Lindsey Klingbeil, M.D.
Breast Surgery

Andres Giovanetti, M.D.
Hepatobiliary Surgery