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Biography: Dr. Spiros Hiotis, MD is an Oncology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 58 years old. Dr. Spiros Hiotis, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Morningside, Mount Sinai Queens and Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Pieter Jan Sebastian Smit, MD, is a surgeon, specializing in general surgery, trauma surgery, and surgical critical care at NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Brooklyn, affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. He is an assistant professor of clinical surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Smit performs both elective and emergency surgeries and cares for patients in the surgical intensive care unit. His clinical interests include abdominal wall reconstruction, minimally invasive emergency surgery, and damage control surgery and resuscitation. Dr. Smit is also involved in resident education through Weill Cornell Medical College. After graduating from Albany Medical College, Dr. Smit completed his general surgery residency and surgical critical care fellowship training at Orlando Regional Medical Center and Boston Medical Center, respectively. Before coming to NewYork-Presbyterian, Dr. Smit was a surgeon at NYU Langone Health in Brooklyn, where he served in several leadership committees. Dr. Smit has presented his research at annual medical meetings of the American College of Surgeons is a member of multiple national surgical and trauma organizations.

Biography: Dr. Daniel Hagler is a board certified General Surgeon specializing in Critical Care Medicine practicing at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens hospital located in Flushing, NY. He received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine Yeshiva University, completed his residency in General Surgery and fellowship in Surgical Critical Care. Dr. Hagler is certified by the American Board of General Surgery and certified in Critical Care Medicine.

Biography: Dr. Michael Coomaraswamy is a board certified Surgeon specializing in Surgical Critical Care practicing at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens hospital. He received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine Yeshiva University and completed his residency in General Surgery. He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, and Advanced Trauma Life Support. His clinical interests are trauma, head and neck surgery, and surgical critical care. Dr. Coomaraswamy is affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Queens hospital and is the Medical Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.

Biography: Makram Gedeon, MD, is a double board-certified bariatric and colorectal surgeon specialized in minimally-invasive approaches to colorectal and bariatric surgery. Dr. Gedeon is part of both the Colorectal Surgery team at several locations throughout New York and New Jersey and the Center for Advanced Surgery at Lawrence Hospital and Hudson Valley. Dr. Gedeon received his medical degree from the American University of Beirut in 2002 before completing an internship in surgery at the Mayo Clinic and a general surgery residency at the University of Texas Southwestern. He has undergone two fellowships - one in minimally-invasive surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern and another in colon and rectal surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian. Following his residency training, Dr. Gedeon spent ten years in a busy community hospital practice in Bristol, Connecticut, where he helped start and grow the practice's weight loss surgery program and served as its medical director until the end of 2018. Clinically, Dr. Gedeon is interested in the application of minimally-invasive and robotic surgery to treat colorectal diseases and obesity, specializing in bariatric surgery and revisions. His research focuses include surgical technology and clinical outcomes. He is fluent in English, Arabic and French.