The Department of Surgery is committed to excellence in research, in keeping with the mission of Stony Brook University Medical Center. Recent faculty publications demonstrate this excellence. The research done by our residents also reflects the highest degree of excellence; see their recent presentations and publications.

Residents are offered a basic research experience of 1–2 years’ duration during their residency experience. Opportunities for collaborative research continue to grow. Senior academic faculty act as mentors. The training model we use is interdepartmental, matching a faculty member in our department with a basic scientist in another department to serve as co-mentors for the resident.

Our faculty provide overall direction and clinical grounding for the resident’s project, while the basic scientists provide lab space, direct supervision, and exposure to bench techniques. Recent collaborations have included the departments of microbiology, physiology, and biomedical engineering.

We provide residents with opportunities for instruction in biostatistics and research methodology, as well as basic science concepts important in current research efforts in surgery. We are also active participants in the institution’s application for both K-23 and K-30 grants from the NIH with several of our faculty members acting as mentors along with basic science collaborators.

The Department sponsors an annual Research Day in which residents present their research; see most recent program. This one-day event is exciting and has become an extremely popular tradition with both residents and faculty. That said, the event is the result of months of concentrated work and science.