The 2026 SFACS Surgical Jeopardy event took place on August 12th at Memorial Hospital West.
Congratulations to the winning team, Dr. Jessica Gonzalez, MD and Dr. Ashli Alexander, MD, from Holy Cross Hospital, who will represent the South Florida Chapter at the Surgical Jeopardy competition at the ACS Annual Congress in September!
Thank you to all the team members who showed up and helped to make Surgical Jeopardy 2026 a great night: Dr. Alex Moravian and Dr. Dwight Philip (Broward Hospital), Dr. Ramon Gil and Dr. Bita Behaeddin (Westside/NW), Dr. Rainya Heath and Dr. Jessica Beresz (Memorial), Dr. Rodrigo Arean Sanz and Dr. Jingyuan Zhang
(Cleveland Clinic Florida), Dr. Jeffrey Hong and Dr. Rocio Castillo (Kendall), Dr. Filipe Kunzler and Dr. Mustafa Khader (FIU/Baptist), Dr. Ashli Alexander and Dr. Jessica Gonzalez (Holy Cross), Dr. Jamie Lee Young and Dr. Jesus Guerecuco (Larkin Hospital), and Dr. Alma Burbano and Dr. Luis Saldarriaga (University of Miami/Jackson).
Special thanks to Dr. Shirley Ziton and Dr. Tamar Levene for organizing the event and Dr. Oliver Lao for his amazing emceeing skills.
Huge thank you to the students from Cypress Bay High School who were in charge of the scoring: Isabella (Izzy) Lao, Ava Fernandes, Carolyn Gao, Aanshi Jain, Joshua Cho, Mahitha Gundre, Siena Rinzler, and Praneeth Gaddam.
