Maheshwaran Sivarajah, MD, an General Surgeon with St. Barnabas Hospital
Get to know Internist Dr. Maheshwaran Sivarajah, who serves patients in New York, New York.
Dr. Sivarajah is a board-certified and fellowship-trained general surgeon specializing in acute care surgery, general surgery, and surgical critical care. He is an attending physician at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, New York.
“SBH Health System is committed to improving the health and wellness of our community and is dedicated to providing the highest quality care in a compassionate, comprehensive, and safe environment where the patient always comes first, regardless of their ability to pay” as stated on their website.
SBH Health System is the primary clinical affiliate of the CUNY School of Medicine, where Dr. Sivarajah has been serving as a Clinical Instructor since September of 2017.
Licensed to practice medicine in New York and Connecticut, he is board-certified in general surgery and surgical critical care by the American Board of Surgery, which is an independent, non-profit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded for the purpose of certifying surgeons who have met a defined standard of education, training, and knowledge.
Following the completion of his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees at the University of Edinburgh in 2001 and 2003, respectively, Dr. Sivarajah went on to pursue his medical training. He obtained his medical degree from the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in 2010, after which he went on to complete his residency in general surgery at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Years later, he completed his fellowships in surgical critical care and acute care surgery at Hartford Hospital in 2016 and 2017, respectively.
Dedicated to excellence, Dr. Sivarajah remains a member of several professional organizations, including the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American College of Critical Care Medicine, the Association for Academic Surgery, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and the American College of Surgeons (Fellow). He attributes his success to his love of the medical field, his desire to help patients, and continuing education / teaching opportunities.
General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. A general surgeon performs a wide range of abdominal surgeries for many forms of intestinal and abdominal wall neoplasms, gallbladder disease, gastric and pancreatic disease. They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care.
Learn More about Dr. Maheshwaran Sivarajah:
Through his findatopdoc profile, https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/82736790-Maheshwaran-Sivarajah-Surgeon or through SBH Health System, http://www.sbhny.org/staff/maheshwaran-sivarajah/
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