Board Certification
- Surgery
- Cardiac Surgery - Board Eligible
Education
Medical School
- Royal College of Surgeons and Physician of Canada
Residency Training
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin
Fellowship Training
- Adult Cardiac Surgery Fellowship, Vanderbilt Heart Institute
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Affiliated Specialty Center
Clinical Interests/Expertise
- Pre- and post-operative critical care of surgical patients
- Management of diseases involving the liver, spleen, upper/lower gastrointestinal systems
- Basic and advanced minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgery
- Hernia repairs
- Surgical treatment of benign soft-tissue tumors
- Tracheostomy and tracheotomy
Contact Information
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Department of Surgery, Health Sciences Center T19-080
Stony Brook Medicine
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8191
Tel: 631-444-1820
Fax: 631-444-8963
For patient care information, including insurance participation and practice locations, click here.
- Personal Statement
- Honors
- Publications
- Additional
My interests include trauma, critical care and emergency general surgery.
- Junior Attending of the Year, Northwell Health Department of Surgery (2018)
- SCCPDS “Excellence in Research”– Honorable Mention (2017)
- ACS Committee on Trauma of Greater New York – Resident Research Award, First Prize (2014)
- ACS Committee on Trauma of Region 2 – Resident Research Award, Best Clinical Paper (2014)
- Montefiore Resident Research Day, First Prize (Best Poster) – “Geriatric Falls and Mortality” (2014)
- Montefiore Resident Research Day, First Prize – “Depression and Pancreatic Cancer” (2012)
- Surgery Resident Teaching Award, PGY-1, 2, 3 class (2012, 2013, 2014)
- > Click here to see abstracts/full text of Dr. Kumar's journal articles presented in reverse chronological order, starting with most recent, on PubMed (National Library of Medicine).
- Certifications
- Surgical Critical Care 2017
- General Surgery 2017
- Administrative Positions
- Acute Care Surgery Team Quality Officer
- Northwell Order Sets Development
- Medical Student Third-Year Clerkship Weekly Teaching Rounds Preceptor
- Professional Societies
- Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma