Physicians Performing Robotic Surgery

Darren Nease, MD

Blaine Nease, MD, FACS, earned his bachelor's degree and attended medical school at The Ohio State University. He completed his residency at the University of South Florida where he received extensive advanced laparoscopic and bariatric surgical training. Dr. Nease is a member of the American College of Surgeons, the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, and the American Society of Bariatric Physicians. He has served on the Bariatric Review Committee of the Surgical Review Corporation and is the first to set national standards for Centers of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery.

Semeret Munie, MD

Semeret T.Munie, MD, is a fellowship-trained bariatric surgeon. She provides minimally invasive, comprehensive weight loss surgery for patients with morbid obesity. Her fellowship training also includes minimally invasive anti-reflux and foregut surgery as well as repair of simple and complex abdominal wall hernias. She has additional fellowship training in surgical critical care.

Jenalee Corsello, MD

Jenalee Corsello is a fellowship-trained bariatric surgeon and an assistant professor in the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine (MUJCESOM).

She attended medical school at Ross University School of Medicine (Miramar, Fla.) and completed her residency at the MUJCESOM. Dr. Corsello completed her fellowship at Advent Health Tampa, Bariatric and Metabolic Institute (Tampa, Fla.) and received certification from the American Board of Surgery.

Juan Bastidas, MD

Juan Bastidas, MD, FACS, is a cardiothoracic surgeon with a special interest in esophageal and lung surgeries. Dr. Bastidas received his medical degree from Universidad del Rosario, Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Senora del Rosario in Bogota, Colombia. He completed his residency in general surgery at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, and his fellowship in thoracic surgery at the Loma Linda University Medical Center, California. A fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Bastidas is board certified in both thoracic and general surgery.

Farzad Amiri, MD

Farzad Amiri, MD, is a minimally invasive surgeon, specializing in colon and rectal surgery.

Paul Bown, MD

Paul Bown, MD, FACS, Marshall Surgery, is a board certified and fellowship trained general surgeon. He specializes in robotic procedures of the spleen and colon including hernias and Nissen Fundoplication procedures for the treatment of acid reflux.

Nadim Bou Zgheib, MD

Nadim Bou Zgheib, MD, FACOG, Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center and Marshall Obstetrics and Gynecology, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained gynecologic oncologist. He has completed extensive training in the diagnosis and treatment of gynecologic cancer and minimally invasive surgery, including da Vinci surgery.

Richard Booth, MD

Brian Bower, MD

Jared Brownfield, MD

Jared Brownfield, MD, FACOG, specialized services and interests include high/low risk pregnancy, infertility evaluation, endometriosis, laparoscopic surgery and da Vinci® robotic surgery.

Yolanda Campbell, MD

Yolanda Campbell, MD, FACOG, Marshall Obstetrics and Gynecology, earned her medical degree and completed her residency at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. She is qualified to treat both adult and adolescent female patients and has special training that includes routine gynecology, gynecologic surgery, menopausal management and obstetrics.

Allan Chamberlain, MD

Ashleigh Clickett, DO

Ashleigh Clickett, DO, Valley Health in Ft. Gay, earned her medical degree from the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her residency at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. She is performing hysterectomies using the da Vinci Surgical System.

Hisham Keblawi, MD

Hisham Keblawi, MD, Marshall Obstetrics and Gynecology, specializes in laparoscopic gynecologic surgery, infertility and colposcopy robotic procedures. He completed his medical degree at the University of Al-Fateh, Tripoli, Libya and residency at Marshall University’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. He is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology.

Andrea Kellar, MD

Andrea Kellar, MD, Valley Health in Huntington, specializes in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery using the da Vinci Surgical System. She received her medical degree and completed her residency training at Marshall University's Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine.

Amber Kuhl, MD

Amber Kuhl, MD, FACOG, ACOG, ABOG, AIUM, OB/GYN at Valley Health in Huntington, specializes in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery using the da Vinci Surgical System. She received her medical degree at Marshall University's Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and completed her residency training at Exempla St. Joseph in Denver, CO.

Paul Lee, MD

Paul Lee, MD, Cabell Huntington Hospital Women's Health in Huntington, is board certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is performing hysterectomies using the da Vinci Surgical System.

Brenda Mitchell, MD

Brenda Mitchell, MD, FACOG, Marshall Obstetrics and Gynecology, is a fellowship trained, board certified gynecologist/obstetrician. She completed her medical degree at the University of Miami school of Medicine in Miami, FL and her residency at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. She is performing hysterectomies using the da Vinci Surgical System.

Amanda Pauley, MD

Amanda Pauley, MD, FACOG, Marshall Obstetrics and Gynecology, earned her medical degree and completed her residency training at Marshall University’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. She specializes in procedures using the da Vinci Surgical System.

Amy "Ally" Roy, MD

Amy "Ally" Roy, MD, FACOG, specializes in general obstetrics and gynecology, endometriosis, high/low risk pregnancies, infertility evaluations, laparoscopic surgery, and da Vinci® robotic surgery.

Kristin Sinning, MD

Kristin Sinning, MD, MPH, FACOG, provides services such as routine gynecologic exams and management of obstetrics patients throughout their pregnancies. She also specializes in minimally invasive surgery.

Emily Sloane, MD

Emily Sloane, MD, provides services such as routine gynecologic exams and management of obstetrics patients throughout their pregnancies.

Dana Lycans, MD

Dana Lycans, MD, serves as an orthopaedic sports medicine physician for Marshall Athletics. He specializes in sports medicine as well as the minimally-invasive surgical treatment of the shoulder, elbow, hip and knee. He received his medical degree and completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery from Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. He completed a fellowship in sports medicine at the American Sports Medicine Institute, Andrews Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center - Orthopaedic Sports Medicine in Birmingham, Alabama.

Chad Lavender, MD

Developing innovative minimally invasive ACL reconstruction procedures, Dr. Lavender serves as a team physician for Marshall University and numerous local high schools. He received his medical degree from West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, W.Va. and completed his residency at Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. He also completed a fellowship in sports medicine at the Orthopaedic Research Center of Virginia, Richmond, Va. He is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.

Matthew Bullock, DO

Matthew W. Bullock, DO, a board-certified, fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeon, earned his medical degree from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, West Virginia, before completing a residency in orthopaedic surgery at Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio. Bullock’s advanced training includes an orthopaedic adult reconstruction fellowship at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has served as an assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at Wake Forest School of Medicine and Baptist Health since 2015 and an orthopaedic adult reconstruction surgeon at W.G. (Bill) Hefner VA Medical Center in Salisbury, North Carolina, since 2017. He is certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.

Alexander Caughran, MD

Alexander Caughran, MD, specializes in all aspects of hip and knee replacement, including joint revision surgery and the minimally invasive direct anterior approach to hip replacement. He received his medical degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (Memphis, Tenn.). He completed his residency in Orthopaedics at Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and a Fellowship in joint preservation and replacement at Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopaedics (Baltimore, Md.).

Felix Cheung, MD

Felix H. Cheung, MD, board-certified orthopeadic surgeon, specializes in orthopaedic oncology, surgical treatment of bone and soft tissue tumors and joint replacement surgery, including the MAKO robotic-arm, total hip, and knee replacement. He received his medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine (Charlottesville, Va.) He completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va. and a Fellowship in orthopaedic oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass.

Ali Oliashirazi, MD

Ali Oliashirazi, MD, board-certified orthopaedic surgeon, specializes in total knee replacement surgery, including computer-assisted and minimally invasive surgery. He received his medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., where he was valedictorian. He completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

James Jensen, MD

James C. Jensen, MD, FACS, Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center and Marshall Surgery, is a national leader in robotic surgery, specializes in robotic surgery for urologic cancer, with a particular emphasis on prostate cancer. He was the first urologist to perform robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery in Utah, and now has performed over a thousand robotic radical prostatectomies, many of them at the Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center. According to industry statistics, he is among the top 20 robotic surgeons in the world. Patients have come from as far as Alaska to have him perform their surgeries.

Justyn Blankenship, DO

Dr. Blankenship attended medical school at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (Lewisburg, W.Va.) and completed his residency at Ascension Macomb-Oakland (Warren, Mich.).