Suturing Lecture & Demonstration

Dr. Steven G. Friedman ’76 is the Chief of the Division of Surgery at New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan Hospital. He received a B.A. degree from Queens College of the City University of New York, in 1976, and he received the rarely-conferred degree M.D. With Distinction in Research from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, in 1980. Dr. Friedman received an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 2011. Dr. Friedman completed a general surgical residency at Harvard’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital, in Boston, in 1985, and a vascular surgery fellowship at N.Y.U. Medical Center, in 1986. In 1996, Dr. Friedman founded and directed the North Shore University vascular surgery fellowship program in Manhasset, N.Y., and in 2001, he founded and directed the vascular surgery fellowship program for the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. Dr. Friedman is the author of more than 70 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, numerous book chapters, and the book, "A History of Vascular Surgery." His work has also appeared in the N.Y. Times, Midstream Magazine, and Downtown Magazine. Dr. Friedman is a member of all of the major national and international vascular surgery societies and he is a distinguished member of the Society of Vascular Surgeons. Dr. Friedman is a past president of the New York Society of Vascular Surgery and he is a Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Weill Cornell Medical College.