Physicians

The following physicians are board-certified general surgeons, certified in their own specialties (as listed), have advanced training in trauma and life support and hold the following titles at New York Hospital Queens:

Name / Title	Specialty
James W. Turner, MD Chairman, Department of Surgery	Peripheral Vascular
Talat Addasi, MD	General Surgery
Armando Castro, MD Program Director	Laparoscopic and Bariatric
Margaret Chen, MD	Breast Surgery
Mitchell Chorost, MD Director	Surgical Oncology
Michael Coomaraswamy, MD	Emergency Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care
Litong Du, MD, PhD	General and Laparoscopic Surgery
Simon Fink, MD Attending Surgical Oncologist, Director of Surgical Palliative Care	General and Breast Surgery
Kurtis Kim, MD	Vascular Surgery
Gregg Landis, MD Director of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery	Vascular, Endovascular
Andy Lee, MD Director of Vascular Lab	Peripheral Vascular
Susan Lee, MD	Breast Surgery
Stephen Merola, MD Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery	Laparoscopic and Bariatric
Jaime Nieto, M.D. Director of Neurosurgery	Neurosurgery
Murisiku Raifu, MD	Neurosurgery
Jason Sample, MD Director of Acute Care Surgery	Emergency Surgery, Trauma, Acute Care Surgery
Howard Tiszenkel, MD Director of Colorectal Surgery	Colorectal
Gerald Wang, MD Director of Surgical Urology	Urology, Urologic Oncology & Robotics

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