Irina Kovatch, MD — Academic Profile

• Assistant Professor of Surgery

Board Certifications

• Surgery
• Surgical Critical Care

Education

• SUNY Downstate (2007)

• General Surgery, SUNY Downstate

• Trauma/Critical Care, Stony Brook University

Affiliated Specialty Center

• Trauma Center

Clinical Interests/Expertise

• Pre- and post-operative critical care of surgical patients
• Surgical management of injured patients—all aspects of traumatology
• Basic and advanced minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgery
• Tracheostomy and tracheotomy
• Management of diseases of the gastrointestinal and endocrine systems
• Treatment of acute surgical abdomen
• Treatment of abdominal compartment syndrome
• Management of single and multiple organ failure
• Repair of hernias including ventral/incisional, inguinal, umbilical, and epigastric
• Appendectomy
• Cholecystectomy
• Splenectomy
• Surgical treatment of benign soft tissue tumors
• Insertion of vascular access devices
• PEG and open gastrostomy tube placement