The Stony Brook Department of Surgery celebrated its 2024 graduating class in a ceremony on June 22nd. The event was held at The Waterview at the Port Jefferson Country Club in Port Jefferson, New York.Â
The event began with an introduction by , Chairman Department of Surgery. Dr. Tassiopoulos also presented the  to Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Assistant Professor of Surgery, . , Chief, Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, presented the  to Ashla Gaibi-Rodriguez, MD, PGY4.
The presentation of certificates to the graduating class proceeded as follows:
Critical Care Surgery
, presented to Saravanan Ramalingam, MD, and Breda Knott, DO.
Colon & Rectal Surgery
, presented to Lucas Man, MD.
Vascular Surgery
David S. Landau, MD, FACS, presented to Josue Gutierrez, MD. Reese Wain, MD, presented to Panagiotis Volteas, MD.
Bariatric Surgery
, presented to Patrick Crosby, MD; and Luke Swaszek, MD.
Otolaryngology
, presented to Jerlon Chiu, MD.
General Surgery
, presented to Ryan Chan, MD.
, presented to Kevin Duh, MD; Danny Poon, MD; and Christine Ward, MD.
, presented to Alexa-Rae Pesce, MD.
, presented to Tianyu Asher Shang, MD.
The Department of Surgery thanks our graduates for all of their hard work, congratulates them on their achievement and wishes them well in their future endeavors.
Please watch our celebration video below for a selection of images from the Surgery graduation event: