Holy Cross Hospital announced the addition of Handel R. Robinson, M.D., as the new director of the University of Miami at Holy Cross Hospital’s general surgery residency program.
Dr. Robinson also will serve concurrently as an associate professor in the department of surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Previously, he served as chief of the vascular surgery division at Mercy Medical Group/Dignity Health in Sacramento, California, for two years. Prior to that position, Dr. Robinson served as an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine for five years.
Dr. Robinson received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Albany in New York and his medical degree from the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, where he also served as a teaching assistant and completed his surgical internship. He then completed a general surgery residency at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York and a fellowship in vascular surgery at the University of Albany / Albany Medical Center.