Joseph T. Vazzana

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Joseph

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Vazzana

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Michele C. Siciliano

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Michele

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Siciliano

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1457612251

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Dr. Siciliano's clinical focus&nbsp;is on the care of patients who require urgent or emergent general surgical operations as well as critically ill patients in the Intensive Care unit.&nbsp;

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<p>Michele C. Siciliano, MD, is an acute care surgeon at Montefiore Einstein. She specializes in the care of patients who require urgent or emergent general surgical operations as well as critically ill patients in the Intensive Care unit. She also provides elective general surgical care.</p><p>After receiving her Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology: Athletic Training from the University of New Hampshire in 2003, Dr. Siciliano spent five years between undergraduate and medical schools working as an Athletic Trainer and Medical Assistant. She then attended the Sackler School of Medicine in Tel Aviv, Israel, from 2008 to 2012, earning her Doctor of Medicine. She completed her postdoctoral training with a residency in general surgery at Maine Medical Center in 2018, followed by a fellowship in surgical critical care at Duke University Medical Center in 2019. She then returned to New York, and spent two and a half years working as a Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon for New York City Health and Hospitals: Harlem Hospital prior to joining Montefiore Einstein.</p><p>Dr. Siciliano is board certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. She is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is a member of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma as well as the Society of Critical Care Medicine.</p>

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Rebecca Levine

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Rebecca

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Levine

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1457506107

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12709

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<p>Rebecca A. Levine, MD, is a board-certified surgeon specializing in the treatment of benign and malignant colorectal disease, including colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, motility disorders and anorectal pathology.</p>

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<p>Trained in both basic and clinical research, Dr. Levine brings to Montefiore an understanding of how translational research can advance the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer, the third most common cause of cancer in the United State</p>

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Renee Huang

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Renee

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Huang

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Dr. Huang's clinical focus is on the treatment of rectal and other cancers at Montefiore with her expertise in using laparoscopic techniques.

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<span style="font-size:16px;-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;caret-color:#4d4d4d;color:#4d4d4d;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, source-code-pro, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace;background-color:#ffffff;">Dr. Huang has co-led numerous clinical research studies on the use of laparoscopic techniques.</span>

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<p><em>Renee Huang, MD advances the treatment of rectal and other cancers at Montefiore with her expertise in using laparoscopic techniques.</em></p><p>Dr. Renee Huang's extensive experience and research in using laparoscopic surgical techniques to treat rectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, and other serious gastrointestinal conditions greatly expands the Montefiore's surgical team's ability to used advanced technologies to care for our patients.</p><p>Dr. Huang, who joins our team from Barnabas Health Medical Group, where she was an attending physician in their colon and rectal diseases practice, has led and co-led numerous clinical research studies on the use of laparoscopic techniques. She completed a colon and rectal surgery fellowship at Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, and a fellowship in minimally invasive colorectal surgery and advanced rectal cancer management at Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of University of Buffalo Medical Center, and she completed her general surgery residency training from Albany Medical College.</p>

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Jenny J. Choi

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Jenny

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Choi

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1063677094

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<p>Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, <a href="https://www.montefiore.org/surgery-services-general-weight-reduction-ce… Surgery</a>, <a href="https://www.montefiore.org/montefiore-institute-for-minimally-invasive-… Invasive Surgery</a></p>

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With high rates of obesity and diabetes in the Bronx, Dr. Choi sees many opportunities to evaluate the long-term benefits of bariatric surgery in this population.

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Francis B. Baccay

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Francis

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Baccay

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<p>Francis B. Baccay, MD, is an attending surgeon at Montefiore Einstein and Associate Professor, Surgery at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Baccay&rsquo;s clinical focus centers on general and acute care surgery.</p><p>After obtaining his Bachelor of Science in biology and Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Tulane University in 1989, Dr. Baccay earned his Doctor of Medicine from New York Medical College in 1993. He then completed his general surgery internship in 1994 and his general surgery residency in 2000 at New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center. Dr. Baccay remained at this institution to complete a trauma and surgical critical care fellowship in 2001.</p><p>Dr. Baccay&rsquo;s research focuses on surgical education curriculum design and assessment. His work has been shared through numerous peer-reviewed publications and oral and poster presentations. He is on the peer review board of the American College of Surgeons, where he is a submissions reviewer for the <em>Journal of the American College of Surgeons</em>. He is also on the peer review board for the Association of American Medical Colleges, where he is a submissions reviewer for MedEd Portal Publications and the Northeast Group on Education Affairs.</p><p>Dr. Baccay is board certified by the American Board of Surgery. He is a member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, the Association of Surgical Education and the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Baccay received the Samuel Rosen Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award in 2018 and the Harry H. Gordon Award for Outstanding Clinical Teaching in 2024 from Montefiore Einstein. He has also won the Patients&rsquo; Choice Award from the Greater New York Patient Survey for multiple years.</p>

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