Residency Training in General Surgery

Since the 1975 entered the profession of surgery, 196 physicians have completed their residency training in general surgery at Stony Brook. The tables below show the immediate post-Stony Brook placement of our program's recent graduates (linked names go to their present webpages):

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.