Meet the Faculty
Leadership
Hepatobiliary Surgery and Surgical Oncology
Title: Chairman & Surgeon-in-Chief, NYPQ, Dept. of Surgery
Professor of Clinical Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine
Hometown: Basel, Switzerland
Medical School: University of Basel School of Medicine
Residency: Beth Israel Hospital at Harvard Medical School in Boston
Fellowship: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York
Bariatric Surgery
Title: Surgical Quality Officer/NewYork Presbyterian Queens
Vice Chairman, Patient Safety and Quality
Chief, Division of General, Minimally Invasive and Obesity Surgery
Department of Surgery/NewYork Presbyterian Queens
Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery
Weill Cornell Medicine
Hometown: Staten Island, NY
Medical School: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Residency: New York University Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital
Fellowship: Hackensack University Medical Center
Title: Assistant Professor Surgery Weill Cornell Medicine
Hometown: San Juan, PR
Medical School: Ponce School of Medicine
Residency: SUNY Downstate Health Science Center
Fellowship: New York Hospital of Queens
Breast Surgery
Title: Attending Breast Surgeon, Director- Breast Program
Hometown: Teaneck, NJ
Medical School: New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
Fellowship: Beth Israel/St. Luke's-Roosevelt, NYC
Title: Attending Breast Surgeon
Hometown: Gainesville, Florida
Medical School: University of Florida College of Medicine
Residency: General Surgery at George Washington University
Fellowship: Breast Surgical Oncology at Stanford University
Specialties
Surgery
Expertise
Breast Surgery
Colon and Rectal Surgery
Title: Chief of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Hometown: Rochester, NY
Medical School: SUNY Stony Brook
Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA
Fellowship: Mt Sinai Hospital, NY,NY
Title: Colon & Rectal Surgeon
Hometown: Mexico City
Medical School: Universidad Anahuac
Residency: Yale School of Medicine
Fellowship: Indiana University School of Medicine
Title: Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery Weill Cornell Medicine Colon and Rectal Surgeon
Hometown: Queens, NY
Medical School: SUNY Buffalo
Residency: Brown University
Fellowship: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson
General Surgery
General and Endocrine Surgery
Title: Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery
Hometown: Split, Croatia
Medical School: Albany Medical College
Residency: University of Connecticut
Fellowship: National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute
Title: Assistant Professor of Surgery
Hometown: Yuncheng, China
Medical School: Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
Residency: SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Fellowship: NYPQ, Flushing, NY
Title: Assistant Professor of Surgery
Director of Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Therapy
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Residency: Mount Sinai Medical Center
Fellowship: Mount Sinai Medical Center -Cardiothoracic Surgery
New York Presbyterian/Queens -General/Trauma Surgery
Title: Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College
Hometown: Palestine
Medical School: Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Egypt 1970
Residency: NYPQ (formerly Booth Memorial Medical Center)
Pediatric Surgery
Jian Zheng, MD
Title: Surgical Oncologist
Hometown: Clearwater, Florida
Medical School: University of South Florida
Residency: Boston University Medical Center
Fellowship: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pediatric Surgery
Specialties
Pediatric Surgery
Specialties
Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Pediatric Thoracic Surgery
Surgical Critical Care/Trauma Surgery
Title: Assistant Professor Clinical Surgery -Weill Cornell Medicine
Assistant Program Director - General Surgery Residency at NYPQ
Attending, Division of Trauma, Acute Care and Critical Care Surgery at NYPQ
Hometown: Queens, NY
Medical School: Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine - Harlem, New York
Residency: Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Staten Island University Hospital
Fellowship: Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at Rutgers -NJMS in University Hospital Newark, NJ
Title: Trauma, Acute Care, and Critical Care Surgeon
Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery
Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY
Residency: Saint Barnabas Medical Center Livingston, NJ
Fellowship: Trauma and Critical Care Fellowship Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY
Title: Attending, Division of Trauma, Acute Care and Critical Care Surgery
Hometown: Tewksbury, MA
Medical School: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency: New York Hospital
Title: Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery
Attending Surgeon, Acute Care, Trauma, Critical Care Surgery
Unit Medical Director 5W Medical/Surgical Inpatient Floor
Director of Surgical Inpatient Services
ACS NSQIP Surgeon Champion
Hometown: New York City (Brooklyn/ Staten Island)
Medical School: New York College of Osteopathic Medicine (now NYIT-COM)
Residency: Lutheran Medical Center (now NYU Langone Healthcare – Brooklyn)
Fellowship: Northwell Health - Manhasset
Thoracic Surgery
Title: Thoracic Surgeon
Hometown: Toronto, Canada
Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, New York
Residency: Rutgers-NJMS, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
Title: Associate Professor of Clinical Cardiothoracic Surgery
Hometown: Fullerton, California
Medical School: New York Medical College
Residency: General Surgery, UC Davis Medical Center
Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYP-Cornell
Vascular Surgery
Title: Program Director General Surgery Residency, Vascular Surgeon
Hometown: Old Bridge, NJ
Medical School: Saint George's university
Residency: Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
Fellowship: University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY-Vascular Surgery
Title: Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery
Hometown: Princeton Junction, NJ
Medical School: Rutgers (UMDNJ) - New Jersey Medical School
Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell
Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell
Title: Vice Service Line Chief, Medical Affairs Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Hometown: Marlboro, NJ
Medical School: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Residency: General Surgery Residency: New York University
Fellowship: Vascular Surgery Fellowship: New York University
Title: Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine
Hometown: Sharon, MA
Medical School: Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
Residency: Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, PA
Fellowship: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
In addition to the above listed faculty and staff, the general surgery residents work closely with private general, plastic and reconstructive, and ENT surgeons.