DR. TODD K. ROSENGART APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF SURGERY

On August 17, 2009, Todd K. Rosengart, MD was appointed chairman of the Department of Surgery. Dr. Rosengart had served as interim chairman since August of the previous year. In making the announcement of this new appointment, Richard N. Fine, MD, dean of the School of Medicine, said: "Dr. Rosengart is a tenured professor who is a highly skilled technical surgeon, a program leader, a scientist, and a clinician who has published extensively, and is actively involved in teaching residents and medical students. He has proven himself as an effective leader and is the ideal person to fill the role of chairman of his department."

The seventh chairman of surgery since the founding of the department in 1974, Dr. Rosengart is an active cardiothoracic surgeon and cardiac research scientist, and serves as co-director of the Stony Brook University Heart Center. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards for excellence as both a clinician and scientist.

Dr. Rosengart joined the faculty of the School of Medicine at Stony Brook University Medical Center, in 2006, as professor of surgery and chief of cardiothoracic surgery. A nationally recognized leader in his field, Dr. Rosengart came to Stony Brook from Northwestern University's School of Medicine in Chicago, where he was professor of surgery and chief of cardiothoracic surgery at its affiliated hospitals of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare.

Recently, Dr. Rosengart has been selected for inclusion in the latest editions of the Castle Connolly Guide, America's Top Doctors; featured in the Castle Connolly Guide, Top Doctors: New York Metro Area (previously featured in the Castle Connolly Guide, Best Doctors in Chicago); listed in Marquis Who's Who in America; selected for inclusion in the Consumers' Research Council of America Guide to America's Top Surgeons; and listed in the Millennium Edition of Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare.

Dr. Rosengart received his medical doctorate from Northwestern University in 1983. He was in the prestigious Medical Honors Program there. He completed his residency training at New York University (NYU Medical Center; 1989), and his fellowship training in cardiothoracic surgery at New York Hospital (1991).

Before joining the faculty at Northwestern University in 1999, Dr. Rosengart was an associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, associate attending cardiothoracic surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he performed the world's first open-heart gene therapy. He also served as a medical staff fellow from 1985 to 1987 in the Surgery Branch of the National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and as an honorary senior registrar in pediatric cardiac surgery at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London, England.

Dr. Rosengart is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Cardiology, and a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the American Association of Thoracic Surgery, and the Executive Leadership Committee for the American Heart Association's Surgery and Anesthesia Council, among other professional societies and committees. He was a founding member of the national 21st Century Cardiac Surgical Society.

An active academic surgeon, Dr. Rosengart is an NIH-funded researcher, and has previously served on NIH study sections. He has authored over 100 publications and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and the Journal of Cardiovascular and Renal Research. He also serves as a manuscript reviewer for journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation, and Annals of Thoracic Surgery. He has been a contributing editor to Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and CT Digest, among other scholarly medical publications.