Message from Program Director
On behalf of the Faculty of the Division of Plastic Surgery at Westchester Medical Center, we welcome you to the candidate evaluation process and to learn about our Division, its goals and mission for education and training. At Westchester Medical Center, we endeavor to provide a learning environment where you can obtain the experience, knowledge and skills required to become an outstanding plastic surgeon.
Although our program has only recently received accreditation by the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency Review Committee of the ACGME, we have been educating Plastic Surgery residents and fellows for more than 10 years as a key training site for several integrated and independent programs.
Westchester Medical Center is the home of the only tertiary care hospital with a Level 1 Trauma Center and Children’s Hospital in the Hudson Valley. We are located just 20 minutes north of New York City. In addition to the majority of the clinical rotations at Westchester Medical Center, the fellows also rotate through Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital (a dedicated pediatric hospital on the main campus), and several private aesthetic plastic surgery practices in Manhattan and White Plains. Our trainees are exposed to a broad clinical experience. Upon completion of their fellowship, we expect our graduates to be equipped with the skills necessary to be outstanding general plastic surgeons or as Fellows enrolled in a subspecialty training program.
Thank you for your interest in our program. Please take some time to explore our website to learn more about what our program has to offer. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Helen Perakis, MD, FACS, MHA
Fellowship Program Director
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Current Fellows
- Joshua Kest, M.D. – Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School – New Brunswick; Burn Surgery Fellowship: Jacobi Medical Center; Surgery Residency: Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Atbin Doroodchi, M.D. – Medical College of Georgia; Hand Surgery Fellowship: Ascension St John Hospital; Burn Surgery Fellowship: Indiana University School of Medicine; Surgery Residency: Medical College of Georgia
- Ethan Paulin, M.D. – St. George’s University School of Medicine; Plastic Surgery – Hand Surgery Fellowship: University of Mississippi Medical Center; Peripheral Nerve Surgery Fellowship: Institute for Advanced Reconstruction; Surgery Residency: Rutgers Health/Monmouth Medical Center
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Westchester Medical Center
Westchester Medical Center shares its leafy campus with New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, approximately 20 miles north of New York City. It is a Level 1 Trauma and Burn Center and a major hub for specialized care referrals. Here, we take care of patients from a very large catchment area stretching from the northern border of New York City to the Catskill Mountains.
WMC has a pediatric hospital (Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital) with eight dedicated pediatric operating rooms as well as many other non-operating room anesthetizing sites, including MRI, radiation and nuclear medicine, and endoscopy. The Ambulatory Care Pavilion, which opened in July 2019, added many anesthetizing locations, both OR and Non-OR.
Construction is underway on the 128-bed state-of-the-art WMC Critical Care Tower, a $220 million project that when completed will span 162,000 square feet over five floors. Our caseload includes a full profile of cardiac, interventional pulmonary and thoracic, complex orthopedic, neurosurgical and solid organ transplant interventions, to name the busiest services. We have a large heart failure and ECMO referral program. Trauma orthopedics and surgery provide our residents a great variety of “open” cases. Residents participate in minimally invasive and robotic interventions in gynecologic-oncology, urology, colorectal, endocrine and thoracic surgery, as well as complex cardiac and neurological endovascular interventions, both pediatric and adult. The Acute and Chronic Pain Management care rotations cover both the pediatric and adult inpatients and outpatients, including complex consultations for patients in the Burn ICU.