Elijah W. Riddle

Elijah W. Riddle, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering and a minor in spanish. He completed his Doctor of Medicine degree at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. During his residency training in General Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, he spent two years as the Minimally Invasive Surgery Design Fellow at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where his work focused on surgical education and surgical technology. Dr. Riddle is board-certified by the American Board of Surgery. After residency, he worked as an acute care surgeon and was the founding Program Director of the General Surgery Residency Program at VinUniversity in Hanoi, Vietnam. Dr. Riddle's clinical practice is in general surgery, with a focus on emergency general surgery and complex abdominal conditions. He will serve as Surgery's Director of Emergency General Surgery. His academic interests include surgical education, global surgery, and surgical technology. Dr. Riddle looks forward to working with the outstanding physicians and clinical teams at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School to provide patients with the best possible care.