General Surgery Graduate Placements

Since the 1975 entered the profession of surgery, 201 physicians have completed their residency training in general surgery at Stony Brook. The table below shows the immediate post-Stony Brook placement of our program's recent graduates (linked names go to their present webpages):

2011 Graduating Chiefs
     
Resident Placement Where
Cristy Adamsky, MD Private Practice in General Surgery Tampa, FL
Neeta Chaudhary, MD, PhD Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Christina Dracea, MD Plastic Surgery Fellowship Research, Stony Brook University
Keneth Hall, MD Bariatric Surgery Fellowship Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY
James Jen, MD Vascular Surgery Fellowship Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
     

2010 Graduating Chiefs
     
Resident Placement Where
Marco Gonzalez, MD Plastic Surgery Fellowship Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, Garden City, NY
Albert Kwon, MD Colorectal Surgery Fellowship Stony Brook University
Mark Melendez, MD Plastic Surgery Fellowship Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, Garden City, NY
Daniel Rutigliano, DO Pediatric Surgery Critical Care Fellowship
Pediatric Surgery Fellowship		 University of Pittsburgh Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, PQ, Canada
Cynthia Salinas, MD Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship Stony Brook University
Alla Zemlyak, MD Research Fellowship / NYS Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program Stony Brook University
     

2009 Graduating Chiefs
     
Resident Placement Where
Salim Amrani, MD Colorectal Surgery Fellowship Stony Brook University
Kwan Nang Lau, MD Hepatobiliary Surgery Fellowship University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Kristine O'Hara, MD Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship Saint Francis Medical Center, Hartford, CT
Garri Pasklinsky, MD Vascular Surgery Fellowship Stony Brook University
Michael Sleet, MD Critical Care Fellowship
Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship		 University of Pittsburgh
University of California, San Diego
Andrea Zimmern, MD Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship University of Illinois at Chicago
     

2008 Graduating Chiefs
     
Resident Placement Where
Michelle Azu, MD Breast Surgery Fellowship Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Celso Dias, MD Vascular Surgery Fellowship Stony Brook University
Paul Impellizzeri, MD Vascular Surgery Fellowship Englewood Medical Center, Englewood, NJ
Fady Kaldas, MD Transplantation Fellowship University of California at Los Angeles
Sepehr Sajjad, MD Hand Surgery Fellowship Yale University
Khaled Salhab, MD Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship Mayo Clinic
     

2007 Graduating Chiefs
     
Resident Placement Where
Wei Chen, MD Plastic Surgery Fellowship University of Chicago
Julia Gotte, MD Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship University of California at San Francisco
Roger Kim, MD Surgical Oncology Fellowship Commonwealth Hospital, Richmond, VA
Paul Kochupura, MD Vascular Surgery Fellowship Atlanta Medical Center, Atlanta, GA
Kristen Rezak, MD Plastic Surgery Fellowship
Advanced Plastic Surgery Fellowship		 Harvard University (Beth Israel Deaconess)
Cleveland Clinic Florida
     

2006 Graduating Chiefs
     
Resident Placement Where
Victor Cruz, MD Colorectal Surgery Fellowship St. Mark's Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT
Andrew Monteleone, MD General Surgery Private Practice Pompton Lakes, NJ
Aleksandr Reznichenko, MD Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship Houston, TX
Brett Ruffo, MD Colorectal Surgery Fellowship Stony Brook University
Hiroshi Sogawa, MD Transplantation Fellowship Mount Sinai Medical Center
     

2005 Graduating Chiefs
     
Resident Placement Where
Solomon David, MD Surgical Critical Care Fellowship
Colorectal Surgery Fellowship		 Stony Brook University
Louisiana State University
Mark Gelfand, MD Hand Surgery Fellowship Stony Brook University
Vivek Kohli, MD Transplantation Fellowship Mount Sinai Medical Center
Frank Lunati, MD General Surgery Private Practice Port Jefferson, NY
George Manis, MD Vascular Surgery Fellowship UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School
     

2004 Graduating Chiefs
     
Resident Placement Where
Elliott Chen, MD Plastic Surgery Fellowship Vanderbilt University
Piotr Dumicz, MD Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship Case Western Reserve University
Vitaly Lyaskovsky, MD General Surgery Private Practice Brooklyn, NY
Denise Ortega, MD Breast Surgery Fellowship University of Texas Southwestern
Baljeet Uppal, MD Critical Care Fellowship Stony Brook University
     

2003 Graduating Chiefs
     
Resident Placement Where
Salvador Cuadra, MD Vascular Surgery Fellowship UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School
Tomasz Kozlowski, MD Transplantation Fellowship Johns Hopkins University
Paul Mancuso, MD Colorectal Surgery Fellowship Thomas Jefferson University
Steve Martinez, MD Surgical Oncology Fellowship John Wayne Cancer Institute

For more information on the career directions of our program's graduates, please see the Alumni News section of our departmental news publication, POST-OP.