Stony Brook University Department of Anesthesiology

Residency Program

Division of Cardiac Anesthesia

  The Division of Cardiac Anesthesia has a mission to provide outstanding clinical care, teach residents, medical students, and fellows and to participate in research activities. We have a dedicated group of cardiac anesthesiologists who accomplish this mission.



Bharathi H. Scott, MD
Chief of Cardiac Anesthesia
 Chief: Bharathi Scott, M.D.

Members:
  Slawomir Peter Oleszak, M.D.
  Syed Shah, M.D.
  Igor Izrailtyan, M.D.
  Christopher Gallagher, M.D.
   The mission of the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia is to provide outstanding clinical care, teach residents, medical students and participate in research activities. We have a dedicated group of cardiac anesthesiologists who accomplish this mission.

  Stony Brook University Hospital is the only Medical Center in Suffolk County providing cardiac surgery services.  We perform approximately 600 cardiac procedures per year. Anesthesiology residents rotate through the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia during their second and third clinical years.  Residents participate in the management of complex cardiovascular and cardio thoracic procedures in adults.

  This involves management of patients undergoing surgery for ischemic heart disease, both on and off pump surgery, aortic and mitral valve surgery, including minimally invasive procedures, surgery involving the ascending and descending thoracic aorta, congenital heart surgery, trans-myocardial laser revascularization and complicated lung and esophageal surgery. The residents will be exposed to the management of patients supported by cardiac assist devices. (Intra-aortic balloon pump and left and right heart devices). They also participate in invasive hemodynamic monitoring and trans-esophageal echocardiography.

  The residents are expected to participate in the weekly departmental teaching conferences, specialized seminars and attend Journal Club. Those residents interested in research activities will be provided with the appropriate opportunities. Faculty in the division are involved in clinical research, leading to publications in peer reviewed journals and presentations at national meetings including the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists.



Dr. Scott presenting her poster at the ASA meeting, October 2007

Dr. Gallagher with a copy of his book "Anesthesia Unplugged"

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