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Program Director(s):
Indraneil Mukherjee
Prashant Sinha

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Description:

This is a highly clinical fellowship divided into bariatric and advanced laparoscopic and robotic surgery. Fellows are exposed to advanced laparoscopic and robotic foregut, colorectal surgery and urological cases for both cancer and benign diseases. Fellows are involved in all aspects of patient care and manangement.

Fellows are expected to present their research at regional and national meetings.The faculty continues to be very active in clinical research and regularly present at the major General Surgery/MIS annual conferences (i.e., SAGES, DDW/SSAT, ACS, SLS, ASMBS).

Basic Program Information:

  • Location: Staten Island, New York
  • Primary Program Site: Staten Island University Hospital Northwell Health
  • Primary Hospital: Total bed size, # OR's, # Surgical ICU beds: 668 beds, 12 main operating rooms, 10 ICU beds
  • Secondary Program Site: Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
  • Secondary Hospital: Total bed size, # OR's, # Surgical ICU beds: N/A
  • Clinic locations and schedule:

    256C Mason Avenue 3rd Floor ;

    schedule varies depending on surgeon

  • University Affiliation: Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
  • School of Medicine Affiliation: Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
  • Year Program and/or Designation Established: 1999
  • Number of Faculty: 7
  • % of Program Clinical: 90
  • % of Program Research: 10

Additional Program Information:

  • Interaction with Residents: Some cases shared
  • Is there a General Surgery Residency at the Primary Institution? Yes
  • Is there a General Surgery Residency at the Secondary Institution? No
  • Is there a curriculum in place for fellowship? Yes
  • Is there a skills lab at the institution with fellow access? Yes
  • Are there teaching conferences available for the fellow? Yes
  • Is there an evaluation tool for fellow by faculty in place? Yes
  • Is there an evaluation tool for faculty by fellow in place? Yes
  • Papers Accepted For Publication where PD was an author: 6
  • Publications that Involved Input from the Fellow: 3
  • Are funds available for the Fellow to attend conferences? Yes

Malpractice Insurance Information:

  • The fellow(s) only works as a fellow, i.e. does not/will not have attending privileges and the program provides the following:
    Claims-based malpractice coverage including a tail for the statute of limitations

Contact Information For Questions:

Jessica Defeo
Phone: 718-226-8630
Fax: 718-226-7971
Email: jdefeo@northwell.edu
Web: https://siuh.northwell.edu/

Facilities

Dry Lab
Library
Administrative Support
Clinical Research
Simulation Lab

Citizenship and Visa Requirements:

    US Citizens
    US Permanent Residents (Green Card)

Medical School Requirements:

    We accept graduates of U.S. or Canadian Medical Schools and Foreign Medical Schools
    We accept graduates of Foreign Medical Schools only if ECFMG Certified

Examinations and Certifications:

    Applicants must have passed the USMLE/COMLEX Step 1, 2, & 3 exams
    Applicants must have passed the USMLE/COMLEX Step 1 & 2 exams or the Medical Council of Canada Evaluation Exam (MCCEE)
    Applicants must have had at least 2 years of prior training in an ACGME accredited residency or fellowship (or Canadian equivalent)
    Applicants who are ABS or Canadian Board Eligible or Certified
    Applicants must have had at least 2 years of prior training in an AOA (American Osteopathic Association) accredited residency or fellowship
    Applicants must be AOBS (American Osteopathic Board of Surgery) eligible or certified

 

Licensure Requirements and Information:

New York State license is required.

Accreditation Status Accreditation Period Length of Accreditation
Accredited for Advanced GI MIS 2023-2026 3

Fellowship Opportunity # 1

  • Number of Positions Available: 1
  • Type of Fellowship: Advanced GI MIS
  • Duration: 1 year
  • Start Day: July 1
  • End Day: June 30
  • Is this a salaried position? Yes
  • It is a requirement that the salary must be commensurate to a PGY 6 or greater in the same city. Does your program meet this requirement? Yes
  • Is the salary guaranteed for the year? Yes
  • Is there funding available beyond salary for meeting attendance, research, etc? No
  • Is the salary dependent on call? No
  • Is the Fellow on call? Yes
    What are the on call requirements?

    Fellows take at home call during the week for bariatric surgery and for any inpatients whose surgery they performed. 
  • What are the estimated fellow weekly work hours? 50
  • It is a requirement that Health Insurance be provided. Do you provide health insurance to your fellows? Yes
  • Teaching Responsibilities: Yes
  • Courses/Academic Presentations: Yes
  • Does reimbursement for the above make up part of the salary? Yes
  • Does the fellowship contract include a non-compete clause? No

Clinical Outpatient Experience

The fellow attends clinic once or twice per week and has the opportunity to evaluate and examine new patients, preoperative patients, and postoperative patients. 

Research/Scholarship Resources

The fellow is encouraged to attend and present at national conferences.  The fellow has the support of multiple faculty members who are involved in clinical resaarch.  There are bimonthly surgical research meetings led by our Director of Surgical Research. 

Program Director(s) Detailed Information

Dr. Indraneil Mukherjee

  • At Institution Since: 2017
  • Program Director Since : 2018
  • Board Certification: Board Certified

Society Memberships

SAGES

ACS

SSAT

AHPBA

Other

ASE, SLS

Areas of Expertise

MIS , Foregut , HPBa

Teaching Qualifications

Summary of Qualifications

Residency and Training

  • Mentorship Program –   Hepato-Pancretico-Biliary Early Career Course:
  • Fellowship –       Advance Gastrointestinal Surgery - Hepato-Pancretico-Biliary and Foregut Surgery, Southeastern Center for Digestive Disorders and Pancreatic Cancer Advanced Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, Florida Hospital, Tampa
  • Residency –        General Surgery - Staten Island University Hospital, State University of New York (Downstate)/North-Shore Long Island Jewish Health System
  • Residency –        General Surgery - Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committee Member

  • Associate for Surgical Education
  • Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract

Publications or technical developments

  • Haemobilia Secondary to Spontaneous Cystic Artery-Gallbladder Fistula: A Unique Gastrointestinal Anomaly. Cureus 12(7): e9457. doi:10.7759/cureus.9457 Acharya S, Mukherjee I, Anwar S, et al. (July 29, 2020)
  • Invited commentary on “Effects of erector spinae plane block on postoperative pain and side-effects in adult patients underwent surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials”- International Journal of Surgery 22-JUN-2020 , DOI:10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.06.028, PMID: 32585193 , Mukherjee ,I
  • “Diwali in the ED: A Festival of Injuries.”  Kaur, H and Mukherjee, I - EC Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, vol. 4, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1–3.
  • “Perforated Jejunal Diverticulitis” Case Rep Gastroenterol 2019; 13:521–525, DOI:10.1159/000503896, PMID: 31911765 , Gurala D, Idiculla P.S, Patibandla P, Philipose J, Krzyzak M, Mukherjee I
  • “Scoping Renal Cell Carcinoma in the Rectal and Anal Canal: A Literature Review.”Anwar S M, Kalbi D P, Upadhyaya A, Mukherjee, I (December 09, 2019) Cureus 11(12): e6330. doi:10.7759/cureus.6330, PMID: 31938620
  • “Management of Banded Gastric Bypasses: Revisional Bariatric Surgery After a Fobi–Capella-Banded Gastric Bypass” - Revisional Foregut Surgery, 45-49, 2020 – Afthinos, JN, Mukherjee, I; Gibbs, KE
  • STROCSS 2019 Guideline: Strengthening the reporting of cohort studies in surgery. Agha R, Abdall-Razak A, Crossley E, Dowlut N, Iosifidis C, Mathew G; STROCSS Group (Mukherjee I). Int J Surg. 2019 Dec;72:156-165. doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2019.11.002. Epub 2019 Nov 6. PMID: 31704426
  • “Trends and Outcomes of Various Techniques of Hepatic Ablation: NIS Database (2013-15)” Journal of the American College of Surgeons 229 (4), e155, 2019, M Raafat, M; Mukherjee, I; Demissie, S; Shimotake, LY; Gibbs, KE
  • “Laparoscopic TAP Block during Sleeve Gastrectomy: Effect on Postoperative Pain and Patient Controlled Analgesia Utilization–A Pilot Study.” A457, Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases 15 (10), S188, 2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2019.08.395, Mukherjee, I; A Demin, A; Shimotake, LY; Ogrodnik, A; Gibbs, KE
  • Implementation of Liposomal Bupivacaine in Laparoscopic Transverse Abdominis Pane block in Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy and effect on postoperative pain and use of Patient Controlled Analgesia - A Pilot study: A473, September 2019 , Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases 15(10):S195 , DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2019.08.411 ; Mukherjee, I ; Shimotake, L A Demin, A; Juneja, A; Gibbs, KE
  • “A Rare Case of Ruptured Jejunal Diverticulitis”: 3225, American Journal of Gastroenterology. 114(): S1718–S1719, OCTOBER 2019, DOI: 10.14309/01.ajg.0000602432.12678.ed,  Issn Print: 0002-9270, Publication Date: October 2019 - Gurala, D; Idiculla, P; Philipose, J; l Krzyzak, M; Mukherjee, I
  • “Primary Anal Melanoma”: 1674, American Journal of Gastroenterology. 114(): S936, October 2019 DOI: 10.14309/01.ajg.0000596228.64907.36, Issn Print: 0002-9270 Publication Date: October 2019 – Elfiky, A; Krzyzak, M; Mukherjee, I; Holmes, N
  • ACS/ASE Medical Student Simulation-based Surgical Skills curriculum: Basic Stoma Care. Kania, T; Mukherjee, I; (national peer-reviewed online resource) Sept 2019
  • “Factor Analyses Of The Beck Depression Inventory-Ii In Pre-Surgical Bariatric Patients Psychology and bariatric surgery - pre and post-op challenges” , OBESITY SURGERY , Volume: 29  Pages: 982-982  Supplement: 5  Meeting Abstract: PO-583 , Published: AUG 2019 for the 24th World Congress of the International-Federation-for-the-Surgery-of-Obesity-and-Metabolic-Disorders (IFSO) / 21st SECO Congress at Madrid, SPAIN,  SEP 03-07, 2019 - Basile, R; Eloi, J ; Russell, KE ; Tenantitla, R ; Demissie, S ; Mukherjee, I ; Gibbs, KE
  • “Pediatric Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis Surgery” Kim E, (ed.) EMedicine, Medscape, July 2019: https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/937263 Mukherjee I,
  • “Adult Onset Morgagni Hernia: Medical vs. Surgical Management” Cureus 11(5): e4626. (May 09, 2019) doi:10.7759/cureus.4626 PMID: 31312552, Elfiky A, Daneshvar D, Krzyzak M, Mukherjee, I
  • “Alcoholic Hepatitis and TNF-α Antagonists: The Rise and Fall”. EC Gastroenterology and Digestive System 6.4 (2019): 317-321, Published: March 28, 2019 – Mukherjee, I and Zhang, Z.
  • The PROCESS 2018 statement: Updating Consensus Preferred Reporting Of CasE Series in Surgery (PROCESS) guidelines. Int J Surg. 2018 Dec; 60:279-282. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2018.10.031. Epub 2018 Oct 22. PMID: 30359781 Agha RA, Borrelli MR, Farwana R, Koshy K, Fowler AJ, Orgill DP; PROCESS Group. (Mukherjee I)
  • The SCARE 2018 Statement: Updating Consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) Guidelines
  • International Journal of Surgery, October 2018; DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2018.10.028; Agha TA, Borrell MR. The SCARE Group (Mukherjee I)
  • ACS/ASE Medical Student Simulation-based Surgical Skills curriculum: Venipuncture and Peripheral IV module. (national peer-reviewed online resource) March 2018
  • The STROCSS statement: Strengthening the Reporting of Cohort Studies in Surgery. Int J Surg. 2017 Oct; 46:198-202. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2017.08.586. Epub2017 Sep 7. PubMed PMID: 28890409. Agha RA, Borrelli MR, Vella-Baldacchino M, Thavayogan R, Orgill DP; STROCSS Group (Mukherjee I).
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Dr. Prashant Sinha MD

  • At Institution Since: 2022
  • Program Director Since : 2022
  • Board Certification: Board Certified

Society Memberships

SAGES

ACS

Areas of Expertise

Advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery; Complex Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

Teaching Qualifications

Summary of Qualifications

Division of Time

Percentage of Time Spent in Clinical Activity: 90%
Percentage of Time Spent in Research Activity:10%

Case Load as Reported By Fellow(s)

1 Fellow(s) performed 2 cases with 2 procedures during the 2025-2026 Fellowship Year.
1 Fellow(s) performed 295 cases with 375 procedures during the 2024-2025 Fellowship Year.

List of Contributing Faculty

Indraneil Mukherjee MD 20%
Area of Expertise
Foregut/Abdominal Wall /HPB & Robotic Surgery
Role in Training
Associate Program Director
   
Olivia Haney MD 20%
Area of Expertise
Bariatrics and Minimally Invasive General Surgery
Role in Training
   
John Angstadt MD 15%
Area of Expertise
Bariatrics
Role in Training
   
Christopher Esposito MD 15%
Area of Expertise
Bariatrics
Role in Training
   
George Ferzli MD 5%
Area of Expertise
Minimally Invasive Surgery, Colorectal Surgery
Role in Training
Attending Surgeon
   
Lawrence Mancino MD 5%
Area of Expertise
GI/Endoscopy
Role in Training
Attending GI Physician
   
Daniel Sagalovich MD 5%
Area of Expertise
Robotic Urologic Surgery
Role in Training
Attending Surgeon
   
Giovanni Bonomo MD 5%
Area of Expertise
Colorectal Surgery
Role in Training
Attending Surgeon
   
Manuel Villa Sanchez MD 5%
Area of Expertise
Robotic Foregut and Thoracic Surgeon
Role in Training
   
Prashant Sinha MD 5%
Area of Expertise
Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery
Role in Training
   

Accreditation History

Director Program Length Start End  
Indraneil Mukherjee Advanced GI MIS 3 2023 2026  

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