Surgical
Specialists Doctors
All
surgeons serve as faculty members for Florida
Hospital’s General Surgery Residency Program.
You
can access Surgical Specialists through a physician referral
or by calling 407-303-7399.

Louis H. Barr, MD |
Dr.
Barr was educated at the Georgetown University School
of Medicine in Washington, DC and trained as a general
surgery intern and first-year resident at Yale-New
Haven Hospital in Connecticut. He completed his residency
training at Temple University in Philadelphia and
went on to fellowship training at the National Cancer
Institute, Surgery Branch of the National Institutes
of Health in Bethesda. Dr. Barr served on the faculty
at LSU Shreveport before coming to Florida to join
a local general surgery group in the 1980s and has
remained in Orlando ever since. He was one of the
first faculty members of Florida Hospital’s
General Surgery Residency Program in 2006.
Louis
H. Barr, MD, FACS, Surgical Oncologist; Board
Certified Diplomat of the American Board of Surgery;
Fellow, American College of Surgeons & Society
of Surgical Oncology; Member, American Society of
Clinical Oncology; Medical Director, Florida Hospital
Cancer Institute
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Jean A. Fung, MD |
Dr.
Fung joined the faculty of Surgical Specialists of
Florida Hospital in September of 2007 following the
completion of her fellowship training in Minimally
Invasive Surgery at Florida Hospital. Dr. Fung was
a member of the first graduating class of that fellowship
program. Dr. Fung is a graduate of Louisiana State
University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, and
completed her residency training at LSU in New Orleans.
Dr. Fung was Administrative Chief Resident during
Hurricane Katrina and assisted in reorganizing the
program following the disaster for the 56 residents
in her program. She was invited by the American College
of Surgeons to present her experiences during Katrina
at the 2006 Clinical Congress.
Jean
A. Fung, MD, Board Certified Diplomat of
the American Board of Surgery; Associate Fellow, American
College of Surgeons; Associate Program Director, General
Surgery Residency Program; Member, Society of American
Gastrointestinal & Endoscopic Surgeons; Member,
Association of Program Directors in Surgery; Member,
Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons |

Rhonda L. Harmon, MD |
Dr.
Harmon joined the faculty of Surgical Specialists
of Florida Hospital in April of 2007. She obtained
her MD degree from Medical University of South Carolina
and did her surgical residency at Washington Hospital
Center in Washington, DC. Dr. Harmon was Assistant
Professor of Surgery at University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, from 2005 to 2007.
Rhonda
L. Harmon, MD, Board Certified Diplomat of
the American Board of Surgery; Associate Fellow, American
College of Surgeons; Member, Society of American Gastrointestinal
and Endoscopic Surgery |

Joseph D. Portoghese, MD |
Dr.
Portoghese has been a member of the medical staff
of Florida Hospital since 1989 and was President of
the Medical Staff from 2004-2006. As Florida Hospital
moved forward into the medical education arena, Dr.
Portoghese was selected to become Program Director
of the General Surgery Residency Program, which was
first accredited in 2006. Dr. Portoghese is a graduate
of the University of South Florida College of Medicine
where he also completed his residency training. While
in private practice since completion of his training,
he has focused on general surgery. Dr. Portoghese
has been a clerkship faculty for Florida State University
College of Medicine since 2002 and was appointed Associate
Professor of Surgery for the University of Central
Florida College of Medicine in 2007.
Joseph
D. Portoghese, MD, FACS,
Board Certified Diplomat of the American Board of
Surgery; Fellow, American College of Surgeons; Medical
Director, Surgical Specialists; Program Director,
General Surgery Residency Program; Immediate Past-President,
Florida Hospital Medical Staff |

Dennis L. Rousseau, Jr, MD, PhD |
Dr.
Rousseau joined Surgical Specialists of Florida Hospital
in September of 2007. He comes to us from the University
of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio where
he was Assistant Professor of Surgery and Associate
Residency Program Director. Dr. Rousseau is a graduate
of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine MD/PhD
program. He obtained his General Surgery residency
training at the University of Michigan Health System,
Ann Arbor, and his Surgical Oncology Fellowship at
the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. His research
expertise is in the field of gastrointestinal solid
tumors.
Dennis
L. Rousseau, Jr, MD, PhD, FACS,
Surgical Oncologist; Board Certified Diplomat of the
American Board of Surgery with a Certificate of Added
Qualifications in Surgical Oncology; Fellow, American
College of Surgeons; Member: American Society of Clinical
Oncology, Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO), National
SSO Scientific Program Committee |

Alric V. Simmonds, Jr, MD |
Dr.
Simmonds joined Surgical Specialists of Florida Hospital
in August of 2006 and was the second member of the
faculty to join the General Surgery Residency Program.
Dr. Simmonds obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree
from The Ohio State University College of Medicine
and Public Health. His residency training was obtained
at Howard University Hospital. He received distinction
as a National Health Disparities Scholar for his two
years of Post-Doctoral Research sponsored by the National
Institute of Health through the Department of Surgery
at the University of Miami. Dr. Simmonds is the Director
of Medical Education in charge of our teaching conferences.
Alric
V. Simmonds, Jr, MD, FACS,
Board Certified Diplomat of the American Board of
Surgery; Fellow, American College of Surgeons; Assistant
Program Director, General Surgery Residency Program;
Member, National Medical Association; Member, Society
of American Gastrointestinal & Endoscopic Surgeons;
Member, Association of Program Directors in Surgery;
Member, Society of Black Academic Surgeons |
In
addition to these core faculty members, we have preceptor
agreements with subspecialty surgeons in excess of twenty-five
members from all the surgical specialties medical staff
of Florida Hospital.
*See list of Publications
and Presentations
from our surgeons.
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