Chairman`s Message - Department of Surgery | Weill Cornell

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NEWS
Vol. 1, No. 4, 2012
Chairman’s Message
I am pleased to present to you the 2012 Fall issue of the Department of Surgery News.
The Department continues to strengthen and expand its clinical
programs. In this issue, we proudly celebrate the Division of
Transplantation Surgery’s milestone of 4,000 kidney transplants,
under the leadership of Sandip Kapur, MD, Chief of Transplantation Surgery. Dr. Kapur is recognized for developing innovative strategies that expand opportunities for transplantation. We
also focus on our new techniques and technologies in robotic
foregut surgery & GI motility disorders, under the direction of Dr. Rasa Zarnegar.
The Department continues to be engaged in promoting innovative and modern education for medical students, residents and fellows. In our Surgical Notes section, we talk about our department’s
leadership role in the design and development of the new 14,000 square foot Sidra Simulation Center
in Doha, Qatar. This important initiative is led by Elliott Silverman, PA-C, Director of our Skills
Acquisition and Innovation Lab, in a strong partnership with Sidra medical and research Center staff.
2012 Preston A. Wade Visiting
Professor Lectureship
Lenworth M. Jacobs, Jr., M.D.pg. 2
The basic science and translational research efforts of the Department continue to expand and be
recognized with additional NIH grants. In this issue, we highlight Dr. Shuibing Chen’s recent grants,
including her NIH Director’s New Innovator Award and a grant from the Beta Cell Biology Consortium through the NIDDK .
The 39th Annual Preston A. Wade Visiting Professorship took place in May. We were pleased to
have Dr. Lenworth M. Jacobs as our Visiting Professor. Dr. Jacobs, an internationally known trauma
surgeon and current Regent of the American College of Surgeons, discussed innovative strategies for
surgical education in trauma care in the United States and around the world.
This issue also features our surgery graduation black-tie dinner in June and welcomes all of our new
residents and fellows. You will also find biographies about recent faculty appointments, as well as a
story about our faculty and residents featured in the highly-acclaimed TV series “NY Med,” which
aired for eight weeks in the summer on ABC. Finally, the upcoming wedding of two of our residents
has stimulated us to seek past surgical residents who met during their training and married. This resulted in an interesting story that recounts many happy alumni marriages. The annual Congress of the
American College of Surgeons just ended in Chicago. Dr. Henri Ford (‘91) was elected to the Board
of Regents. Congratulations to Henri. Other past graduates and lecturers were elected to leadership
positions in the College. You can read more about it in the “Surgical Notes” section.
Positive Surgical Outcomes:
Residents’ Nuptials - pg. 3-7
4,000th Kidney Transplantpg. 8
Robotic Foregut Surgery and
GI Motility Disorders- pg . 9
ABC-TV’s NY Med documentary features
Department of Surgery- pg. 10
Save the Dates- pg. 10
Surgical Notes- pg. 11
Alumnus Henri Ford, MD elected
to ACS Board of Regents
We hope you enjoy this issue of the Department of Surgery News.
Sincerely yours,
Faculty Appointments- pg. 12-16
Fabrizio Michelassi, MD
Surgery Graduation- pg. 17-19
Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor of Surgery
Chairman, Department of Surgery
Surgeon-in-Chief
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Welcome New Residents and Fellowspg. 20-23
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DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY
39th Annual
Preston A. Wade
Visiting Professor
Lectureship
“Advanced Trauma
Operative Management
(ATOM): Innovative
Strategies for Trauma
Surgical Education”
The Department of Surgery’s 39th Annual Preston A. Wade Visiting Professor Lectureship was held on Monday, May 7, 2012. The lecture, “Advanced Trauma Operative Management (ATOM): Innovative Strategies
for Trauma Surgical Education,” was presented by the prominent trauma
surgeon Lenworth M. Jacobs, Jr., MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Traumatology and Emergency Medicine and Assistant Dean of
Academic Affairs at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
He is also Chief Academic Officer, Vice President of Academic Affairs and
Director of the Trauma Program at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut.
Dr. Jacobs’ has made important contributions to the surgery of trauma,
and is the founder of the Advanced Trauma Operative Management
Course (ATOM), an innovative method of training surgeons in the management and repair of penetrating injuries. ATOM is available at 39 sites
nationally and internationally and over 300 surgeons have been fully
trained as ATOM instructors. A graduate of the University of West Indies
Medical School in 1970, Dr. Jacobs received his surgical residency training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and at Boston University City Hospitals. In 1974, he received a Masters in Public Health from
Lenworth M. Jacobs, Jr, MD
the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Jacobs has published over 170
peer reviewed manuscripts, 10 abstracts, 55 book chapters and books, and
May 7, 2012
8:00 a.m., Uris Auditorium
Weill Cornell Medical College
serves as an editorial consultant for the Journal of Trauma. He is on the
editorial board of 3 medical journals, and is a member and holds leadership positions in several prestigious national surgical societies.
The Preston A. Wade Visiting Professor Lectureship was established in 1974 as a reminder of the importance of surgical
expertise in the prevention of trauma and in the treatment of the trauma victim. Dr. Preston A. Wade was a leading
trauma surgeon and pioneer in accident prevention. He treated many of the burn victims of the Hindenburg disaster,
designed the emergency room at New York Hospital, and was instrumental in convincing Congress to pass a law requiring
the mandatory installment of seatbelts in cars. After Dr. Wade’s death in 1982, this lectureship became a memorial to his
life and contributions.
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Positive Surgical Outcomes:
Residents’ Nuptials
The surgery residency training programs at NYP/Weill Cornell’s Department of Surgery are nationallyrecognized as among the best in the country. The collegial learning environment is fast-paced, time-in-
tensive and very challenging. Strong, lifelong bonds are often formed as a result of working so closely
together for many years. Some alumni have gained not only outstanding surgical expertise by match-
ing into our program, but managed to find a “love match” as well. Spanning nearly three decades, here
are some examples that we know of about how love can blossom in the OR.
Karen Kostroff and Jon
Cohen (both class of 1984)
believe that they have the distinction of being the first resident couple in the history of
our general surgery program
to get married. Karen and
Jon met during their first year
of residency, and after dating
for eight months, they were
married on New Year’s Eve
in their second year. They
picked that holiday in the hope that they would be able to
celebrate their anniversary in years to come outside of the
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OR. Finding the time to actually get married was
challenging, and involved some complex on-call
schedule juggling to get the same four days off in
a row for their wedding and honeymoon. Happily
married with a daughter, Karen is Chief of Breast
Surgery at the North Shore –LIJ Health System.
Jon was formerly Chairman of Surgery at LIJ and is
now Chief Medical Officer for Quest Diagnostics.
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CONT...
Dr. Stephen Martin (class of 1990) and Dr. Marisa Lawrence
(class of 1989) met and became friends in July 1985 when he
joined the general surgery residency program, and Marisa had
just completed her first year. Over time, their friendship evolved
into a romance. As Marissa was Steve’s senior resident during
Dr. Michael Banbury and
Dr. Jillian Hickling-Banbury (both class of 1995),
met at the welcoming BBQ
held on the roof of the
Helmsley Tower for incoming general surgery residents.
They were assigned to the
same rotation, and got to
know each other very quickly.
They married in 1993 during
their fourth year of residency,
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their time here, he often jokes that she immediately
recognized him as ‘good husband material’ because of
his notable willingness to follow her orders ‘to the tee’.
They married on a Sunday afternoon in May 1988.
The next morning, while at the scrub sink alongside Dr. Thomas Shires, Chair of Surgery, Dr. Shires
looked askance at Steve and remarked, “Marisa’s a
wonderful girl, but couldn’t you have planned things
a bit differently?” Three children later and 25 years of
a happy marriage proved that their plan was, indeed,
a good one. Marisa is a plastic surgeon in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. Steve is semi-retired from
clinical practice, teaches at Mercer University College
of Health Sciences, and is a medical mission trip leader for the Global Health Organization.
and had their first son, Jackson, now 18 years old,
during their fifth year. Their second son Colby, 16
years old, was born during their fellowship training. According to Jill and Michael, it is great to be
married to another surgeon, because they both “get
it”. There is a mutual understanding of the many
demands required by their strong commitment
to medicine. Michael is Chief of Cardiac Surgery
at the Christiana Care Health System in Newark,
Delaware, and Jill is a plastic surgeon at the Christina Care Health System, specializing in breast reconstruction and aesthetic surgery.
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CONT...
Dr. John Berne (class of 1996) first met his wife Dr. Evelyn
Gonzalez-Berne (class of 1999) when she began her general
surgery residency in 1994. They started dating within a year and
Dr. Glen Jones (class
of 2000), and Dr.
Margaret Young (class
of 1997), met for the
first time in 1995 at
the new resident orientation meeting for
the General Practice
Dentistry
residency
program (GPR). They
fell in love as the year
progressed, and Glen
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fell deeply in love. But they had to keep their romance
quiet, so as not to invite any question of favoritism, as
John was the chief resident on her service. They would
sneak back and forth to each other’s apartments, and
secretly rendezvoused away from the hospital. They
managed to keep their secret until John’s graduation
dinner in June 1996. The big “reveal” came during
his speech, when he admitted not only were they dating, but they had secretly married four months earlier
and were expecting their first child! After a stunned
silence, the news was greeted with enthusiastic cheers
by their surgical colleagues. Happily married with
three sons, John is Director of Trauma at East Texas
Medical Center, and Evelyn has a general surgery private practice, specializing in breast cancer.
began his Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residency training, while Margie continued in the GPR.
They tried to hide their romance, as intradepartmental relationships were not encouraged, but
their chief resident found out after a few months.
Their relationship survived and thrived, and they
married in May, 2002. Currently they enjoy a
busy practice in St. Petersburg, Florida, Glen as
an oral surgeon and Margie as endodontist, and
are raising two beautiful young daughters, ages 8
and 5.
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CONT...
Dr. Eric Edwards (class of 2005) and Dr. Andrea Barrio
(class of 2006)) first met in the surgical ICU when she was
in her first year of general surgery residency and Eric was in his
second year. Eric was the night float on Red surgery service,
and when Andrea would drop off the beeper, they started talking. One night Eric paged her to meet him at the local hangout
Murphy’s Law for dinner and their relationship was officially
launched. They married in 2005 with Eric in his last year of residency and Andrea in her fourth year. They feel that experienc-
Dr. Stephen Broderick (class of 2010) and Dr. Kristin
Parker (class of 2012) met on the first day of her plastic
surgery residency, when he was chief resident for general
surgery. When Stephen walked Kristen home on their first
date, they were surprised to find that they lived on the same
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ing residency training together bonded them in a deep
and unique way. Eric and Andrea practice medicine
in Pennsylvania, and have two children, Dean, age 6
and Pierce, age 2. Eric, who specializes in minimally
invasive bariatric surgery, works at St. Mary Medical
Center in Buck’s County and Andrea, who specializes
in breast surgical oncology, is at Bryn Mawr Hospital.
floor in the Helmsley Tower. They say that although there are challenges inherent in marrying
another surgeon -- coordinating call schedules,
job locations, and family responsibilities -- they
appreciate each other’s sense of obligation to their
patients. And as Kristen points out, how many
surgeons can get an intraoperative consult from
their spouse? They married in January 2012,
while Kristen was in the last year of her residency,
and Stephen was completing his fellowship. Kristen is doing a breast microsurgery fellowship and
Stephen is an attending thoracic surgeon at Washington University, St. Louis. They are expecting
their first child, a son, in December.
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CONT...
Dr. Vanessa Ho (class of 2012) met Dr. Christopher
Towe (class of 2011) during her first month of her general surgery residency in the SICU, when Chris was in his
second year and she was the intern on the Red Surgery
service. Vanessa remembers first being impressed with
his skills as an SICU resident who gave ‘good sign out’
when patients moved from the unit to the floor, and
they started dating about 6 months later. After dating for three years, they got married in 2008. Vanessa
claims it’s “very convenient” being married to a surgeon, and they are each other’s best friend. They were
recently featured on ABC-TV’s “New York Med” series. Chris is doing a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship
at NYU and Vanessa is doing a trauma and critical
care fellowship at UMDNJ- The University Hospital
in Newark, NJ.
Dr. Stacy Ugras (class of 2013) and Dr. David
Anderson (class of 2014) started their romance
when she was a PGY-2 rotating at Jamaica Hospital
and David was the PGY-1 on her service. During the
intensity of treating trauma patients, they discovered
they shared a similar sense of humor and became
good friends. Two months later they started dating.
Stacy is currently a Chief Resident, while David is a
PGY-IV. They married in February, 2011 in New
York City, during their second year of surgical oncology research fellowships at MSKCC.
These couples have created a long and happy tradition of finding love in the OR that continues to the present
day. In fact, Benjamin Golas (class of 2011) and Alyssa Reiffel (class of 2014) will get married on November
3rd. Congratulations to Ben and Alyssa, and to all!
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Dr. Sandip Kapur
4,000th
Kidney Transplant
The Division of Transplantation Surgery has reached
the milestone of 4,000 kidney transplants, under the
strong leadership of Sandip Kapur, MD, Chief of
Transplantation, an internationally renowned transplant surgeon recognized for developing innovative
strategies that expand opportunities for transplantation. These strategies include donor exchange, crossmatch and blood type incompatible programs, utilization of expanded criteria deceased donor kidneys, and
transplantation of patients who are older and/or who
have significant co-morbidities.
In 2012, NYP/Weill Cornell’s comprehensive kidney
disease program was ranked third in the nation by US
News & World Report. For three years running, our kidney transplant program has been one of a handful in
the country and the only program in the region to receive the Kidney Transplant Excellence Award from
HealthGrades in recognition of excellent outcomes.
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Our hospital has a long tradition of pioneering leadership in
the field of transplant surgery. Our surgeons performed the
first kidney transplant in the metropolitan area in 1963. In
2004, Dr. Kapur and his team were the first in the tri-state area
to perform minimally invasive islet cell transplants for Type
1 diabetes. In 2009, the first minimally invasive laparoscopic
single site donor nephrectomy in New York was performed
here, and our surgeons are recognized leaders in this area, having the largest experience in the U.S. Dr. Kapur led the Weill
Cornell team that performed the first kidney paired exchange
transplant chain as a founding member center of the National
Kidney Registry, which has become the most successful kidney
paired exchange program in the world.
Our multidisciplinary team is committed to advancing the science
of transplantation through basic science and clinical research to
develop safer and more individualized therapies for patients. Our
recent contributions to these efforts include: steroid sparing antirejection regimens in over 80% of kidney transplant recipients;
kidney transplantation for patients with HIV, hepatitis C, and/or
hepatitis B infection; and kidney transplantation for older adults.
Our hospital is the only one to offer an innovative, non-invasive
molecular test that predicts organ rejection before outward signs
of rejection, which enables individualized treatment of kidney
transplant patients. As a result, our kidney transplant program
has a 1-year acute rejection rate of only 7 percent-nearly 10 percent better than the national average.
NEWS
Robotic Foregut Surgery
& GI Motility Disorders
Dr. Rasa Zarnegar
New techniques and innovative technolo- dedicated staff of health care providers, under also for re-operative surgery. The technical
gies for the management of esophageal and the guidance of Dr. Rasa Zarnegar, who per- advantage of the robotic-assisted surgery is
gastrointestinal disorders are now offered at form these procedures routinely and optimize due to enhanced visualization through 3D, as
NYP/Weill Cornell, under the direction of Rasa patient care and comfort. Endoscopic proce- well as increased range of motion that allows
Zarnegar, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery. dures are also performed, including BRAVO, for improved fine motor function. Additional
This multidisciplinary approach, involving close a wireless ambulatory reflux detector system patient benefits include speedier recovery and
collaboration between surgeons, gastroenter- that allows patients to perform their routine reduced time under anesthesia. Procedures
ologists and ENT specialists, provides compre- activities without any visible signs of a detec- performed include Nissen fundoplication for
hensive, state-of-the-art care to patients with tor. The results of these detection studies are reflux, Heller Myotomy for achalasia, gastric
discussed in a multidisciplinary conference to resections and adrenalectomies. The team
these disorders.
Since its inception two years ago, the Gastrointestinal Motility Laboratory in the Department
develop and implement specially-tailored treat- of surgeons and physicians who specialize
ment algorithms for each patient.
of Surgery utilizes the most advanced tech- Dr. Zarnegar pioneered robotic assisted forniques for the detection of esophageal motility gut surgery to better manage patients with
disorders, including high resolution manometry esophageal and gastrointestinal motility disorto detect small changes in the motor function ders at NYP/Weill Cornell. Using the advanced
of swallowing. We offer ambulatory reflux de- Da Vinci Robotic Platform developed by Intuitection methods that can be used for 24 or 48 tive Surgical, we are now able to perform forehour detection, and not only identify acid reflux, gut surgery with more precision and improved
the most common type of reflux, but also non- visualization. This technique allows not only
in the treatment of GI motility disorders are
actively involved in collaborative research to
improve outcomes, patient selection and
management, with the end goal of developing
individualized, patient-directed management.
Their research focus is in the development of
new technologies, including endoscopic and
single incision surgery, to further reduce pain
and speed up patient recovery time.
acid reflux. The GI Motility Laboratory has a for the management of the initial surgery, but
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ABC-TV’s NY Med
documentary features department of surgery
For one year, a documentary team from ABC News recorded
the amazing and often inspiring patient stories happening inside
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. The critically acclaimed eight-part series, NY Med, aired this summer,
reaching more than 5 million people nationwide. Camera crews
followed our physicians, surgeons and nurses to bring viewers a riveting, behind-the-scenes look inside NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Many of our department faculty and residents were featured
during the documentary series. Eleven faculty members who appeared in the series include: Drs. Philip Barie, Daniel Cherqui,
John Karwowski, Michael Kluger, Michael Lieberman, Fabrizio Michelassi, Jian Shou, Jason Spector, Mia Talmor, Eleni Tousimis and Anthony Watkins. Five surgery residents were
featured as well, including: Drs. Carla Cavalha, Vanessa Ho,
William Nugent, Sebastian Schubl and Christopher Towe.
SAVE THE DATE
Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, FACS
Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor and Chairman,
Department of Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief,
IMPROVING SURGICAL QUALITYA DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH
American College of Surgeons (ACS)
Surgical Health Care Quality Forum New York
Friday, November 16, 2012
8:30 a.m. – 11:45 p.m.
1300 York Avenue, New York, NY
(Registration and breakfast at 7:30 a.m. in Griffis
Faculty Club; Forum in Uris Auditorium)
You are invited to a special community discussion around
Improving Surgical Quality – A Data-Driven Approach. The
forum will focus on the critical roles that quality data,
measurement and reporting have in the future of health
care, and highlight best practices for implementing effective
surgical quality improvement programs that can measurably
improve outcomes and reduce costs.
Email [email protected] to RSVP by
Nov. 14, 2012.
Visit www.FACS.org or www.InspiringQuality.FACS.org for
more information on the American College of Surgeons
quality improvement mission.
Questions? Email: [email protected] for
more information.
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Surgical Notes
Henri Ford, MD, Class of 1991, Elected to ACS Board of Regents
Congratulations to our alumnus Henri R. Ford, MD, FACS, class of 1991, on his recent election to
the Board of Regents by the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Ford
is Vice President and Chief of Surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). He serves as
Vice-Dean of Medical Education, and Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs in the Department
of Surgery and at the Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Ford has been an active leader in the ACS,
serving in many key leadership positions over the years, including Second Vice-President Elect,
Governor, Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees and a member of the
Board of Directors of the University Children’s Medical Group. As the Vice Dean for Medical Education at the Keck School, Dr. Ford advances the medical school’s educational mission by promoting
excellence in medical education as one of its highest priorities. He is the author of more than 300
publications, book chapters, invited manuscripts, abstracts and presentations. Dr. Ford’s research
has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through
the Injury Free Coalition for Kids, the National Trauma Registry for Children and the American College of Surgeons. In addition, Dr.
Brent Eastman (‘13 Wade Lecturer) assumed the Presidency of the ACS from Dr. Patricia Numann (’06 Canizaro lecturer) and Dr.
Carlos Pellegrini (‘05 Ben Park Lecturer) was named President-Elect. Finally Dr. Joseph Minei ( Class of 1991 ) was elected Chair
of the Surgical Infection Committee of the Board of Governors.
New Sidra Simulation Center in Doha, Qatar
Renee Pyburn, RN, MS Senior Project
Manager for Simulation (Sidra Medical &
Research Center) and Elliott Silverman,
PA-C, Director, SAIL in Doha.
Elliott Silverman, PA-C, Director of the Skills Acquisition and Innovation Laboratory (SAIL), Simulation, Team-Training and Innovation Center of the Department of Surgery at NYP/Weill Cornell Medical Center, is deeply involved in partnership with Sidra Medical and Research Center staff on the
design and development of the new Sidra Simulation Center in Doha, Qatar. The Sidra Simulation
Center will be a 14,000 square foot center in the heart of the new Sidra Medical & Research Center,
and serve as the core site for simulation and team-training for all 4,000 medical and nursing staff of
the Sidra Medical & Research Center. In addition to hands-on technical clinical skills and diagnostic
acumen, the Center will include precise team-training and leadership training. Elliott was selected
by SIDRA to lead this project because of his unique expertise and successful track record of utilizing
innovative strategies and technologies to design and build personalized, state-of-the-art simulation
centers at major medical institutions in the United States, including two breakthrough simulation
centers at the NYP/Weill Cornell Department of Surgery.
Pioneering Stem Cell Research
Dr. Shuibing Chen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery and Department of Biochemistry, is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Chen Laboratory. The major research interest in
the Chen Laboratory is to manipulate stem cell fate using chemical and biological approaches and
to generate functional tissues and organs that can be used for translational research. Dr. Chen was
recently the recipient of the prestigious 2012 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award for $1.5 million
dollars. The grant is to fund her study on the progression and regression of beta cell dysfunction in
type 2 diabetes. Dr. Chen was also awarded a $275,000 grant from the Beta Cell Biology Consortium
through the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, to create human beta
cell lines with controllable proliferation capacity that can be used for disease modeling and therapy of
diabetes. In 2012, Dr. Chen also won the Junior Faculty Award of the American Diabetes Association.
She was awarded the Robertson Investigator by the New York Stem Cell Foundation in 2010, which
provides up to $1.5 million over a five year period to expand her laboratory, train scientists and foster innovative high-risk/high-reward
research to explore the therapeutic potential of stem cells derived from humans and model organisms.
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NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill
Cornell
Medical
Center
NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital/Weill
Cornell
Medical
Center
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Faculty Appointments
Andrew J. Meltzer, MD
Office Telephone: (212) 746-7311
Office Fax: (212) 746-5812
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.weillcornell.org/physician/ameltzer/index.html
Andrew J. Meltzer, MD, joined the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
as an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Assistant Professor of Surgery in Public
Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is also an Assistant Attending Surgeon
at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Meltzer’s clinical expertise encompasses the treatment and management of the full spectrum of vascular
disease, including complex arterial and venous problems. A board-certified surgeon,
he has significant expertise in the most advanced minimally invasive and endovascular procedures. Dr. Meltzer’s research efforts focus on patient-centered outcomes
and comparative effectiveness in vascular surgery. He received his BS in Biology
from Yale University in 1999. In 2003, he earned his MD magna cum laude, from
Jefferson Medical College, where he was elected President of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. Dr. Meltzer completed his internship and residency in surgery
at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
His research training includes a two-year fellowship at the Massachusetts General
Hospital/Harvard Medical School Transplantation Biology Research Center. Dr.
Meltzer completed his fellowship training in vascular surgery in 2012 at NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College/Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons. Widely published in peer-reviewed journals and the author
of numerous book chapters, he is a co-principal investigator for a Cornell University Intercampus Planning Grant, a collaboration with investigators from the Cornell School of Operations Research and Information Engineering to investigate the
reliability of implantable devices used for endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm
repair. Dr. Meltzer is an active member of several prestigious surgical societies, and he
has earned several honors including research awards from the Eastern Vascular Society,
American College of Surgeons and the Association for Academic Surgery.
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Medical
Center
Hospital/Weill
Cornell
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Joongho Shin, MD
Office Fax: (212) 746-6370
Website: http://www.weillcornell.org/physician/jshin/index.html
Joongho Shin, MD, joined the Colon & Rectal section as an Instructor in Surgery
at Weill Cornell Medical College and an Assistant Attending Surgeon at NewYorkPresbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. His clinical expertise is in laparoscopic
colon and rectal surgery. In addition to his clinical practice at Weill Cornell, Dr.
Shin has a clinical practice at New York Downtown Hospital. Dr. Shin his received
BA and MS from SUNY at Buffalo and his MD from Stony Brook University
School of Medicine, NY in 2004. He completed a general surgery residency at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY in June 2011, and a research fellowship at Albert
Einstein School of Medicine from 2006-2008, studying molecular pathway of colon
cancer. He completed his colorectal surgery fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian/
Weill Cornell Medical Center in June, 2012. Dedicated to mentoring, Dr. Shin was
awarded the Junior Resident Teacher of the Year and the Senior Resident Teacher of
the Year. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, and was a second prize winner
of the Young Investigator Symposium at Montefiore Medical Center.
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Parul Shukla, MD
Office Fax: (212) 746-6370
Website: http://www.weillcornell.org/physician/pshukla/index.html
Parul Shukla, MD, joined the Colon & Rectal section as an Associate Professor of
Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and an Associate Attending Surgeon at
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is an internationally known
expert in gastrointestinal surgical oncology, and in particular, hepato-pancreato-biliary pathology. He is an accomplished master surgeon with excellent clinical judgment
and operative expertise, and has extensive experience in treating gastrointestinal cancers, with a strong expertise as a colorectal laparoscopic surgeon.
Dr. Shukla has served as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Colorectal Diseases since
2006, and is a member of the editorial board for the World Gastroenterology Organization. He is an invited reviewer for many international journals, and has been an
invited lecturer at 128 international institutions. In addition to his clinical practice,
Dr. Shulka is a renowned researcher and educator. He is widely published with over
110 articles in peer reviewed medical journals and 11 book chapters. An active member of many professional surgical societies, Dr. Shukla has earned many honors and
awards throughout his career. Dr. Shukla’s principal fields of research are in liver and
gallbladder cancer. His current clinical research at NYP/Weill Cornell centers on
the application of “needlescopic” procedures to laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery,
and the expanded role of intraoperative carbon dioxide colonoscopy in the operating room; narrow-band imaging and vascularity of the anastomosis; endoluminal
full-thickness closure of intestinal defects; luminal mapping of colorectal tumors and
polyps; the role of multi-photon microscopy in luminal diagnosis; the impact of obesity on outcomes of laparoscopic colectomy; and long-term outcomes of colon cancer
after open and laparoscopic surgery.
He received his MD from Grant Medical College in Mumbai, India. He completed his residency training at Grant Medical College and Sir JJ Hospital, Mumbai, India and Royal Victoria Hospital and Whiteabbey Hospital, in Belfast, NI,
UK. Prior to joining Weill Cornell, Dr. Shukla was Professor of Surgical Oncology and Officer in Charge of the GI Surgical Oncology Unit at Tata Memorial
Hospital, Mumbai, India.
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Anthony Watkins, MD
Office Fax: (212) 746-8720
Email: acw9003@,med.cornell.edu
Website: http://www.weillcornell.org/physician/awatkins/index.html
Anthony Watkins, MD, joined the Division of Transplantation Surgery as an Assistant Professor of Surgery (Tranplantation Surgery) at Weill Cornell Medical College,
and an Assistant Attending Surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is an experienced, board-certified surgeon who specializes in kidney,
pancreas and liver transplantation, laparoscopic donor nephrectomies and minimallyinvasive kidney transplantation and dialysis access surgery. Dr. Watkins is actively
involved in research in areas relating to organ transplantation primarily related to
ischemia/reperfusion, access to transplantation and infectious disease issues related to
transplantation. He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, authored 3 book
chapters, and given presentations at medical conferences.
Dr. Watkins received his BA degree from Fisk University, Nashville, and his MD degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. He completed his general
surgery residency training at the University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey
Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, and spent an additional two years conducting research there in gastrointestinal, liver, kidney and pancreas pathophysiology. He
was also a research fellow at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, in Memphis, TN, and at
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He completed his fellowship in multiorgan transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University.
Dr. Watkins, who was recently featured on ABC-TV’s NY Med documentary, has
received many honors and awards, including the Distinguished Fellow Award in
2011 by the American Society of Transplantation/Canadian Society of Transplantation. He is an active member of several prestigious surgical societies and is a Candidate Fellow for the American College of Surgeons. Prior to joining Weill Cornell,
Dr. Watkins was Assistant Professor of Surgery at Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons.
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Rache Simmons, MD
Appointed Assistant Dean for Faculty Diversity
Weill Cornell Medical College has appointed Rache Simmons, MD, to the newlycreated leadership position of Assistant Dean for Faculty Diversity. Dr. Simmons, a
world-renowned breast surgeon widely recognized for her innovations in minimally
invasive breast cancer surgery, is the Anne K. and Edwin C. Weiskopf Professor of
Surgical Oncology and Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell, and serves as Chief of
Breast Surgery and Director of the Weill Cornell Breast Center. In her new position,
Dr. Simmons will direct diversity activities and initiatives throughout the Medical
College, working closely with Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher, the Stephen and Suzanne
Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College and Dr. Barbara L. Hempstead, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity, who is leading the newly established Office of Faculty Development and oversees the development of all faculty
across Weill Cornell. In her new role as Assistant Dean, Dr. Simmons will also focus
on developing and implementing gender and diversity activities and initiatives to
enhance the academic careers of women and increase lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community sensitivities. Her major goals are to improve work-life
balance through the creation of a childcare facility; develop a uniform parental leave
policy for all faculty; establish a course to educate faculty on appropriate work place
behavior; and the enhancement of the climate of inclusion for LGBT individuals at
Weill Cornell among faculty, residents, students and staff. Her ultimate aim is to help
the entire faculty to find work-life balance, career growth, gender balance in consideration for academic promotions, access to childcare and establish equitable institutionwide policies on parental leave.
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Surgery Graduation
On Saturday, June 16, 2012, our surgical residents, faculty, friends and family gathered at The Water Club in NYC to celebrate the commencement of our 7 graduating Chief Residents and recognize their many achievements. Congratulations to
the Class of 2012!
(from left to right) Nicholas La Gamma, MD, Elaine Cheng, MD, Christina Angeles, MD, Cameron Stock, MD, Fabrizio Michelassi, MD,
Thomas J. Fahey, III, MD, Tracy-Ann Moo, MD, Vanessa Ho, MD, Ronald Brooks, MD
• Tracy-Ann S. Moo, MD (Administrative Chief )
• Cameron T. Stock, MD (Administrative Chief )
• Christina V. Angeles, MD
11th Annual Hassan A. Naama MB,
B.Ch Memorial Resident Award:
Elliot L. Servais
• Ronald M. Brooks, MD
• Elaine Y.T. Cheng, MD
• Vanessa P. Ho, MD
• Nicholas A. LaGamma, MD
Annual Faculty of the Year Teaching Award: Dr. Fabrizio Michelassi
Dr. Elliot L. Servais with Dr. Michelassi
The graduating chief residents present Dr. Michelassi with the teaching award in
recognition of his excellence in surgical teaching and his outstanding commitment
to resident education.
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6th Annual Fabrizio Michelassi, MD
Chief Surgical Resident Award: Christina V. Angeles MD
Career Paths of Chief Residents: 2012
The majority of the program’s general surgery graduates
continue their training in a specialized area of surgery.
They routinely secure prestigious fellowship positions in
academic programs across the country. Here’s an update
on the career paths of 2012 alumni of our general surgery
residency program:
2012 Graduates
Dr. Christina Angeles
with Dr. Michelassi
The 4th Annual Resident Student Teacher Award:
Dr. Samuel T. Sultan
Christina V. Angeles, M.D.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Surgical Oncology Fellowship
Ronald M. Brooks, M.D.
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency
Elaine Y.T. Cheng, M.D.
University of California - Los Angeles
Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship
Vanessa P. Ho, M.D.
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey –
New Jersey Medical School
Surgical Critical Care/Trauma Fellowship
Nicholas A. La Gamma, M.D.
Colon and Rectal Surgery Fellowship
Dr. Michelassi and Dr. Samuel Sultan
Tracy-Ann S. Moo, M.D., Administrative Chief Resident
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Breast Surgery Fellowship
7th Annual William T. Stubenbord, M.D. Resident
Award: Michael B. Morton MD
Cameron T. Stock, M.D., Administrative Chief Resident
Massachusetts General Hospital
Thoracic Surgery Fellowship
6th Annual Chief Residents Outstanding Intern Award:
Adam S. Levy, M.D.
Graduating residents congratulate Dr. Levy on receiving his award
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At the Weill Cornell Medical College graduation, Dr. Fabrizio
Michelassi, Chairman of Surgery (left) and Dr. Laura Glimcher,
the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical
College (right), present The Fabrizio Michelassi Medical Student
Annual Award to Briar Lia Dent, in recognition of her
distinguished achievements during her four-year education.
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Dr. Thomas J. Fahey, III with the class of 2012 graduates.
Administrative Chief Residents Dr. Cameron Stock (far left) and Dr. Tracy-Ann Moo (far right) with
Dr. Fabrizio Michelassi, Chairman and Dr. Thomas J. Fahey, III, Program Director
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Welcome our new Residents and Fellows 2012-2013
General Surgery Residents
Jonathan Abelson, MD
University of Virginia
School of Medicine
Katherine Arthur, MD
University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine
Michael Chervonski, MD
Keck School of Medicine
of USC
Neel Chudgar, MD
The School of Medicine
at Stony Brook University
Medical Center
John Creasy, MD
Wake Forest University
School of Medicine
Sleiman El Jamal, MD
Weill Cornell Medical
College, Qatar
Brandon Guenthart, MD
Temple University School
of Medicine
Xiaogang Jiang, MD
Shandong Medical
Universitys
Manuela Junqueira, MD
Fundacao Tecnico-Educacao Souza Marques
Petro Kostandy, MD
College, Qatar
Nathanael Sabbah, MD
Technion Israel Institute
of Technology
Saurabh Saluja, MD
Harvard Medical School
Kenneth Seastedt, MD
Georgetown University
School of Medicine
Ben-Paul Umunna, MD
College, Qatar
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General Practice
Dentistry Residents
Oral & Maxillofacial
Surgery Resident
Laura Davila, DDS
Indiana University
School of Dentistry
Keith Dobrin, DMD
UMDNJ
Karin Herzog, DDS
Columbia University
Shin Huh, DMD
Tufts University
Alex Hung, DMD
Tufts University
Lauren Levi, DMD
University of Florida
Victoria Seto, DMD
University of
Pennsylvania
Ariel Otero, DMD
University of Puerto Rico
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residents
Whitney Burrell, MD
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Jerry Chao, MD
Briar Dent, MD
Ryan Engdahl, MD
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Natalia Fullerton, MD
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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residents...cont.
Thomas Imahiyerobo, MD
Stephanie Malliaris, MD
Olushola Olorunnipa, MD
Robyn Sackeyfio, MD
Lara Devgan Verdonck ,MD
BURN
SURGERY FELLOWS
David Shokrian, MD
Catherine Sinnott, MD
COLON & RECTAL
SURGERY FELLOWS
CRITICAL
CARE
FELLOW
Nelya Melnitchouk, MD
Heather Yeo, MD
Vladimir Rubinshteyn, MD
Rishi Kundi, MD
Jeffery Siracuse, MD
VASCULAR AND
ENDOVASCULAR
SURGERY FELLOWS
Heather Gill, MD
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Nii-Kabu Kabutey, MD
Kevin Small, MD
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RESEARCH FELLOWS
Christopher J. Agrusa, MD
Laurence Justin Belin, MD
Toni Beninato, MD
Daniel Fish, MD
Sandy Heck, MD
Douglas Jones, MD
Deirdre C. Kelleher, MD
David A. Kleiman, MD
Robert McMillan, MD
Lindsay A. Pharmer, MD
Kristin Pokorney, MD
Gregory G. Salzler, MD
Eric Sorenson, MD
Samuel Sultan, MD
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Department of Surgery, 2012
WAYS TO GIVE
The Department of Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/
Weill Cornell is committed to our three-fold mission
of education, research, and patient-centered care. Philanthropy plays a vital role in realizing our vision of
excellence in these three areas. Whether it be for the
ground-breaking research that will treat and cure the
scourge of disease, teaching the next generation of top
doctors, or providing the most advanced care in a truly
compassionate, patient-centered way, philanthropy is
critical to our success.
Secure Ways to Give Form
http://www.cornellsurgery.org/patients/give/index.html
We ask that you partner with us in our mission, and consider a
tax-deductible gift to the Department of Surgery. You may also
make a check payable to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell
Department of Surgery and mail to:
Mr. Tom Maness
Office of Development
525 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10065
For more information about the Department of Surgery, please visit our website at
www.cornellsurgery.org
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