Since 1975 when our first graduating residents entered the profession of surgery, several hundreds of 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):
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2023 Graduating Chiefs
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| Resident | Placement | Where |
| Jocellie Marquez, MD | Plastic Surgery Residency Program | Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC)/Stony Brook University, NY |
| Joseph Obeid, MD | Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship | Temple University, PA |
| Juyeon Park, MD | Minimally Invasive Surgery/Adv GI Surgery/Bariatric Surgery Fellowship | University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN |
| Bryan Robins, MD | Minimally Invasive Colon and Rectal Fellowship | Houston Methodist Hospital, TX |
| Heitham Wady, MD | Colorectal Fellowship | Alleghany, PA |
| Ross Weller, MD | General Surgery Practice | NYU Langone Health/Long Island Community Hospital, NY |
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2022 Graduating Chiefs
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| Resident | Placement | Where |
| Givi Basishvili, MD | Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship | UT South Western Medical Center, TX |
| Kelsi Hirai, MD | Vascular Surgery Fellowship | OHSU, OR |
| Panagiotis Drakos, MD | Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship | Highland Hospital, NY |
| Panagiotis Volteas Sr., MD | Vascular Surgery Fellowship | Stony Brook University Hospital, NY |
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2021 Graduating Chiefs
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| Resident | Placement | Where |
| Marie Fleury, MD | Surgical Critical Care Fellowship | NYU Langone, NY |
| Iliya Goldberg, MD | Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship | University of Southern California, CA |
| Carlos Guzman, MD | Private Practice | |
| Patrick Jasinski, MD | Vascular Surgery Fellowship | Stony Brook University Hospital, NY |
| Rajeev Masson, MD | Head and Neck Fellowship | University of Wisconsin, WI |
| Andrew Rabenstein, MD | Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship | Allegheny General Hospital, PA |
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2020 Graduating Chiefs
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| Resident | Placement | Where |
| Anthony Ferrara, MD | Head and Neck Fellowship | Duke University, NC |
| Omer Kaymakcalan, MD | Plastic Surgery Fellowship | University of Illinois at Chicago, IL |
| Roy Lacey, MD | Critical Care and Trauma | Cooper University Hospital, NJ |
| Anish Shah, MD | Minimally Invasive Surgery | Medical Center, East Carolina University |
| Jessica Simon, MD | Colorectal Surgery (2021) | Ochsner Clinic Foundation, LA |
| Suresh Yelika, MD | Colorectal Surgery (2021) | Stony Brook University Hospital, NY |
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2019 Graduating Chiefs
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| Resident | Placement | Where |
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| Ryan Chiu, MD | Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship | Weill Cornell - New York Presbyterian, NY |
| Carl Dickler, MD | Colorectal Surgery Residency | Mt. Sinai Medical Center, NY |
| Syed Ahsan Karim, MD | Minimally Invasive Surgery/Bariatrics Fellowship | University of Buffalo, NY |
| Robert Laskowski, MD | Trauma/Surgical Critical Care/Acute Care Surgery | University of Maryland Medical Center, MD |
| Christine Malino, MD | Assistant Professor-Acute Care Surgery | NYU Langone, NY |
| Owen Pyke, MD | Minimally Invasive Surgery/Bariatrics Fellowship | NYU Winthrop Hospital, NY |
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2018 Graduating Chiefs
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| Resident | Placement | Where |
| Maria Altieri, MD | Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship | Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
| Chanak Chantachote, MD | Critical Care Fellowship | University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| Taher Gulamhusein, MD | Minimally Invasive Surgery/Bariatric Fellowship | Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH |
| Anthony Hesketh, MD | Minimally Invasive Surgery/Bariatric Fellowship | Stony Brook University |
| Ayesha Nzeribe, MD | Vascular Surgery Fellowship | Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY |
| Amanda Sosulski, MD | Critical Care Fellowship | U of California, Los Angeles, CA |
| Michael Svestka, MD | Minimally Invasive Surgery/Advanced GI/Abdominal Wall Reconstruction Fellowship | Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH |
| Richa Verma, MD | Burn Care Fellowship | Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY |
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2017 Graduating Chiefs
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| Resident | Placement | Where |
| Yousef El-Gohary, MD | Pediatric Oncology Fellowship | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN |
| Catherine Frenkel, MD | Head and Neck Surgery Fellowship | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
| William Gioia, DO | Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship | Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY |
| Jessica Gooch, MD | Breast Surgery Fellowship | New York University, New York, NY |
| Kai Zhao, MD | Transplantation Fellowship | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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2016 Graduating Chiefs
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| Resident | Placement | Where |
| Syed Abbas, MD | Colorectal Research Year | Stony Brook University |
| Patrick Hartendorp, MD | Colorectal Surgery Residency | University of Texas, Houston, TX |
| Lily Hsieh, MD | Pediatric Surgery Critical Care Fellowship | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| Ahmed Nasser, MD | Burns Fellowship | Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, NY |
| Spyridos Pagkratis, MD | Minimally Invasive Gastrointestinal Surgery Fellowship; Followed by Hepatobiliary Surgery Fellowship | University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE |
| Andrew Peredo, MD | Burns Fellowship | Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Jacobi Hospital Burn Center), Bronx, NY |
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2015 Graduating Chiefs
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| Resident | Placement | Where |
| Jason Chiu, MD | Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
| Leonard Copertino, MD | Surgical Faculty Position | VA Medical Center, Northport, NY |
| Makkalon Em, MD | Private Practice in General Surgery | St. Marys, PA [Future plan: Abdominal Organ Transplant-Hepatobiliary Surgery Fellowship, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA] |
| Pamela Kim, MD | Phlebology Fellowship | Stony Brook University |
| Georgios Spentzouris, MD | Vascular Surgery Fellowship | Stony Brook University |
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