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Faculty Appointments and Recruitment

 

New Appointments and Recruitment

Vinay Tak, M.D.

Vinay Tak, M.D., FRCS, who had joined the Downstate Faculty initially in 2007, named Interim Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery in 2010, has been appointed Chief of the Cardiothoracic Division on August 1, 2013

Dr. Tak performs the entire spectrum of cardiac surgical operations, including coronary arterial grafts, valve repairs, pulmonary and other thoracic operations. He is also skilled at minimal invasiv and video-assisted surgical techniques. He particularly excels in his ability and willingness to take on the most difficult and high-risk cases with excellent clinical results and outcomes. This appointment is deservedly merited based on his demonstrated able interim stewardship of the Cardiothoracic Division, and his success in maintaining excellent clinical outcome results, especially in the face of our current and continuing challenges.

 

Roseanna Lee, M.D.

Roseanna Lee, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery is a cum laude graduate of Brandeis University. She then graduated from both SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and Downstate's Surgical Residency Program, which she completed last June as one of our very outstanding alumni training program graduates. There was unanimous surgical faculty consensus in her immediate recruitment because of her demonstrated superior technical skills, proven diligence and responsibility, and her strong commitment to an academic career in surgical education.

In addition to her clinical responsibilities at University Hospital, Dr. Lee will supervise the residency educational program in laparoscopic techniques at our surgical simulation lab at Downstate and administer the certification program in fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery (FLS).