Jennifer LaFemina

Jennifer LaFemina, MD is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. She has served as the organization’s Program Director in General Surgery since 2016. Board certified in General Surgery, Dr. LaFemina earned her MD from UCLA, followed by her General Surgery Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. She then completed her Surgical Oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center prior to joining the UMass faculty in 2012 as a Surgical Oncologist.

Dr. LaFemina has extensive experience and expertise in the transition to residency and the residency recruitment cycle.  Prior to her time with the NRMP, she represented the Association of Program Directors in Surgery (APDS) as the lead of General Surgery recruitment practices. She also served as the liaison to AAMC-ERAS for the APDS. In this latter role, she was part of the team that developed the initial pilot ERAS SuppApp study, which implemented program signals in resident recruitment for General Surgery, Internal Medicine, and Dermatology. Aligned to her passion for optimizing the transitions of phases in learning, Dr. LaFemina also serves as the lead for the American College of Surgeon’s Blue Ribbon Committee II Promotion in Place Implementation Committee.