The Department of Surgery encompasses the Divisions of General Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Urology, Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology, Pediatric Surgery, Plastic Surgery, and Transplant Surgery. Within the Division of General Surgery, residents gain exposure to transplantation, vascular surgery, surgical oncology, trauma, critical care, surgical nutrition, non-cardiac thoracic surgery, colorectal surgery, and minimally invasive surgery. The medical center attracts a large number of patients requiring both routine and unusual tertiary care.
Residents can thus develop their skills by treating patients with a wide variety of surgical needs.
Einstein surgeons perform biliary tract, upper gastrointestinal, colon, breast, and endocrine surgery, as well as a great deal of major vascular surgery. The medical center has active multidisciplinary programs in breast, gastrointestinal, and pulmonary carcinoma, in addition to melanoma, lymphoma, and head and neck cancer. A regionally renowned program in open-heart surgery treats more than 800 patients each year. Einstein's surgeons perform more than 60 renal transplants annually through the department's outstanding transplantation program. Their work includes the first successful kidney transplant in North America involving incompatible blood types.